Trump says he did not record conversations with former FBI Director Comey
U.S. President Donald Trump confirms he has no recordings of conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, after a Bloomberg News report said the same thing on Thursday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, laying to rest speculation that arose after he tweeted last month that Comey better hope there were no tapes.
“With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
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With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
…whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2017
Days after firing Comey, Trump tweeted on May 12 that the former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations.” Lawmakers investigating alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 election had asked the White House for any such recordings.
Comey had been leading the FBI’s own Russia probe.
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