Donald Trump’s weird new denial of the Pee Pee Tape may be the dumbest thing he’s said yet

| 12:14 am EDT July 21, 2017
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Donald Trump is still talking about the Pee Pee Tape. Former FBI Director James Comey has previously said that Trump once called him up out of the blue to insist that he’d never done anything with Russian hookers, as had been alleged in the Trump-Russia dossier. Now Trump is once again denying the Pee Pee Tape, this time publicly – and it might be the dumbest explanation he’s given for a scandal yet.

During his new interview with the New York Times, Trump brought up the “Pee Pee Tape” accusation made against him in the dossier just so he could refute it. He explained that “I have witnesses, because I went there with a group of people. You know, I went there with Phil Ruffin.” Ruffin is his business associate. Then he added that his longtime bodyguard Keith Schiller was also with him. (link). And so Trump’s defense is that his own pals can prove he didn’t do anything with Russian hookers because they were on the trip with him.

What is this even supposed to mean? Were Ruffin and Schiller in Trump’s hotel room with him the whole time? Did they spend every moment of the Moscow trip with him? That’s the only possible way that his travel-mates could prove he didn’t do what’s been alleged. And by invoking Schiller, Trump is only serving to make himself look more suspicious.

Once Donald Trump took office, one of the first things he did was to hire Keith Schiller to a high profile White House security job. Now the question must be asked: was this Trump’s way of rewarding Schiller for continuing to keep quiet about whatever really happened in that Moscow hotel? By continuing to talk about the Pee Pee Tape at all, Trump further validates the assertions of its existence. And the sheer stupidity of his denials of the tape makes him look even more guilty.