Trump admits he has no tapes of James Comey

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Mr Comey, who was running the FBI's investigation into possible collusion between associates of the president and Russians seeking to influence last year's election before he was sacked on May 9, says Mr Trump pressed him to drop the inquiry into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

The question of tapes is something the president created himself after he said Comey "better hope" there weren't any recordings of their multiple conversations before Comey was sacked.

Comey had told the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee that the Trump administration had lied and defamed him and the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the President dismissed him on May 9.

Comey was overseeing the investigation until Trump fired him last month out of frustration with the inquiry.

Trump told reporters earlier this month that he meant to make an announcement on the tapes, but coyly noted that the media would be disappointed by his answer. "And beyond timing of that, I can't really speak anything further", Sanders said.

Comey had appeared before a Senate hearing testifying that Trump had asked him to drop a probe against former Nationsla Security Adviser Michael Flynn for his alleged links to the Russian ambassador.

Now we know that Comey's prayers are likely to go unanswered, after Trump said he didn't make any.

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He did leave open the possibility that such tapes exist.

An earlier report from Bloomberg backed up the president's statement.

Comey later told lawmakers under oath that the president's tweet sparked the idea to pass on the contents of a memo he kept detailing an interaction with the president to a friend, who shared that information with The New York Times.

"I can say that the people that have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters", Trump said. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the hint of "tapes" follows a pattern from Trump's career, including a 2011 claim that he would reveal information he discovered about President Barack Obama's birth certificate - he never came forward with anything.

He said he was also asked by the President to give assurances that he would be loyal.

Two weeks ago, he teased reporters in the White House Rose Garden by saying that he'd explain "maybe sometime in the very near future". Reporters wouldn't like the answer, he added mysteriously.

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