President Donald Trump has no tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, he tweeted Thursday, June 22.
Trump himself had raised the question of whether such tapes existed in an earlier tweet.
When he tweeted a warning on May 12, “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”
Trump and Comey disagree about the details of those conversations during their one-on-one meetings.
On Thursday Trump laid to rest the question of whether the White House had recordings of those conversations in two tweets:
“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.”
Comey, has said he took memos of his conversations with the President. Comey has alleged that the president asked him for his loyalty and in a separate conversation had asked whether Comey could let go of the FBI investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
Both President Trump and his lawyer have strongly denied those statements.
Despite multiple requests by congress, Comey has not provided it with the memos he said he created after those meetings.
Instead, he admitted during a June 8 hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that he had leaked some of the documents to The New York Times, through a friend, in an attempt to get a special prosecutor appointed—a position now filled by former FBI director Robert Mueller, who has had a longtime professional and personal relationship with Comey.
Matthew Little and Ivan Pentchoukov for Epoch Times
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