Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations

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Why it’s likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations

By Philip Bump May 12 at 2:42 PM

President Trump issued a not-terribly-veiled threat to former FBI director James B. Comey in a tweet Friday morning.
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For a guy who has spent the past week being compared to Richard Nixon for firing a man who was investigating his campaign, it was an odd threat to level. Nixon, of course, was undone in part by the things that he recorded himself saying in the Oval Office. Which raises an interesting question: Do presidents still record those conversations? Does Trump?

At Friday’s daily press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said that the president “had nothing further to add” beyond the tweet — hardly a denial. But there are other reasons to believe that the answer to those questions is “yes.”
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Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Post based in New York City. Follow @pbump

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