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MASKING

TAPE

President Donald Trump speaks during the “American Leadership in Emerging Technology” event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, June 22, 2017, in
Washington.
Associated Press
No tapes after all: Trump says he didn’t record Comey talks

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and long guessing game that “no idea” whether there the saga that began in Trump responded at that
ERIC TUCKER he started with a cryptic are “tapes” or recordings May, just days after he fired time, via Twitter, that Com-
Associated Press tweet and that ensnared of the two men’s conversa- Comey, then the head of ey “better hope that there
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- his administration in yet tions. But he proclaimed he an investigation into Trump are no ‘tapes’ of our con-
dent Donald Trump de- more controversy. “did not make, and do not associates’ ties to Russian versations before he starts
clared Thursday he never “With all of the recently re- have, any such recordings.” officials. Trump has dis- leaking to the press!” That
made and doesn’t have ported electronic surveil- That left open the possibility puted Comey’s version of apparently angry missive
recordings of his private lance, intercepts, unmask- that recordings were made a January dinner during triggered a series of con-
conversations with ousted ing and illegal leaking of without his knowledge or which the director said the sequences each weightier
former FBI Director James information,” Trump said by someone else. But he president had asked for a than the last.
Comey, ending a month- in his latest tweets, he has largely appeared to close pledge of loyalty. Continued on page 3