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struggle4progress

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Fri May 12, 2017, 01:41 PM May 2017

Warns ousted FBI chief against talking [View all]

POLITICS | Fri May 12, 2017 | 12:39pm EDT
By David Alexander and Susan Heavey | WASHINGTON

... Trump warned ousted .. Comey on Friday against talking to the media, suggesting there might be tapes of conversations between the two men that could contradict his account.

"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" Trump said in .. Twitter posts.

... the New York Times reported that the president asked Comey in January to pledge loyalty to him ...

On Twitter, Trump appeared to suggest that if Comey gave his version of contacts between them, the administration might produce tapes of conversations, although it was not clear if such tapes exist ...


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-idUSKBN1881YJ

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