“James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Trump wrote. Far from knocking down the assertion that Trump had recorded conversations in the White House, his aides refused to give a definitive answer for weeks. There might be a tape,” he said, explaining why he leaked memos of his conversations with Trump to the media. But among Trump loyalists in the White House and in Congress, there was a spirited effort to validate the claim. “The notion that President Obama could instruct the intel community to set up a tap on Mr. Trump’s offices is preposterous on its face.

Source: Washington Post June 22, 2017 22:58 UTC