"Well, I didn't tape him", he said in an interview with Fox News' "Fox and Friends" when asked why he wanted Comey to believe that tapes existed.
Trump appeared to suggest back in May that there might be recordings of their private conversations but, after revealing that he hadn't actually made any, the President suggested he was just trying to keep Comey honest.
"We have four very good people that - it's not that they're opposed; they'd like to get certain changes", Trump said.
He added: "But you'll have to determine for yourself whether or not his story changed". "But he's also. we're going to have to see".
Trump fired Comey in May after he refused to end the FBI investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence the results.
Members of the House panel are reportedly weighing whether any voter records stolen in a cyberattack suffered by the Illinois State Board of Elections past year were ultimately shared with Mr. Trump's presidential campaign, Time and CBS News both reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
Bill Cosby's sex case will be retried, as judge declares mistrial
Meanwhile, attorney Gloria Allred, who represents numerous Cosby accusers, said the entertainer's fame carried its own power. Prosecutors say they plan to try Cosby again. "If I am called upon to do my civic duty, I will do it", she said.
After the tweet, Mr Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee to make his account of interactions with the President public.
The comments followed a tweet from the president Thursday, where he also denied taping Comey, ending weeks of speculation after a Twitter warning that Comey had "better hope" there were no "tapes" of their conversations.
On Wednesday afternoon, President Trump took to Twitter to clarify his recent assertions about possessing tapes of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey.
The Trump administration has been firing back at the deluge of leaks surrounding Mueller's Russian Federation probe - suggesting that anonymous sources tied to the reports can not be trusted. "He did admit that what I said was right", Trump replied, likely referring to Comey's testimony that he told Trump three times that he was not under investigation. "There has been leaking by Comey, but there has been no collusion, no obstruction, and virtually everybody agrees to that".
"Robert Mueller is an honorable man, and hopefully he'll come up with an honorable solution", Trump said of the decorated former Federal Bureau of Investigation director, criminal prosecutor and Marine.
In the meantime, despite the White House saying officials will no longer talk about the investigation into the Russia scandal, and Trump's lawyers urging him to stop talking about the Russia scandal, the president can't seem to stop himself from talking about the Russia scandal. "It would be a very, very sad day for Republicans if she steps down", Trump said.
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