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Trump Claims He Has No Taped Conversations with Fired FBI Director

HeadlineJun 23, 2017

In more news from Washington, D.C., President Trump said Thursday he does not have tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired amid an FBI probe into alleged Russian meddling in November’s election. In a Twitter rant last month, Trump threatened Comey over the possibility of taped conversations, tweeting, “James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” In a pair of tweets Thursday, Trump wrote, “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.”

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