So…Comey heard the president suggest that “there might be tapes” of their meeting.*
Comey on Trump Meetings: ‘Lordy, I Hope There are Tapes… Release the Tapes’ Via Bridget Johnson at PJ Media
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Director James Comey told senators today that he believes he was fired “to change the way the Russia investigation was being conducted,” and refused to answer in open session whether he believes President Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Comey also declared that he’d be happy if there are any White House tapes of his meetings with Trump and said he’d approve of their release. “I’ve seen the tweet about tapes,” he said of a Trump tweet. “Lordy, I hope there are tapes.”
“All I can do is hope,” Comey added later. “The president knows whether or not he tapes me. If he did, I’m not offended. Release the tapes.”
Sitting behind Comey’s witness table in the second row of the packed Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, who was fired by Trump on March 11 and whose hearing seat was secured by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “We can all agree with Jim Comey that, Lordy, we hope there are tapes,” Bharara live-tweeted.
That prompted Comey to give his version of the meeting, in notes he wrote, to a “friend” to leak them to the NY Times.
But, if there were “tapes” of the meeting why was Mr. Comey anxious to get his recollections out in the media? Wouldn’t the tapes be the best corroboration of his version?
DLH
- Note to readers, we will do other reports about the Comey testimony off and on as the outrages strike us. Rather than recapitulate the basic story we are going to operate on the presumption readers are aware of the related controversy and testimony.
