He also called a friendship between Comey and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the counsel leading the investigation into possible connections between Russian Federation and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, "very bothersome" in an interview airing Friday on Fox News.
President Trump is standing by his decision to previously suggest that he had secret recordings of his meetings with James Comey.
In an interview broadcast on Fox News Channel's "Fox &Friends" Friday, Trump repeated that he never made tapes, but added that when Comey "found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed".
Well I didn't tape him. He also said he hoped that the alleged tapes of his conversations with Trump do exist.
Comey was overseeing the investigation until Trump axed him last month out of frustration with the inquiry.
Mr Trump has disputed Mr Comey's version of a January dinner during which, according to Mr Comey, the president asked for a pledge of loyalty.
ED HENRY (CO-HOST): The left is going bonkers with some of those comments in the tweet yesterday and some of the comments to you and saying that Donald Trump was trying to intimidate James Comey by suggesting there may be tapes.
His suggestion that he was suspicious someone may have been eavesdropping on the conversation is at odds with Comey's testimony that the president requested others in the Oval Office leave before he asked the FBI director to drop an investigation of Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser.
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With that single tweet, Trump immediately deepened his own legal and political quagmire, evoking comparisons to former President Richard Nixon and prompting congressional committees investigating his campaign's alleged ties with Russian Federation to demand the disclosure of any such recordings. Trump revealed that Comey had told him this when he fired the Federal Bureau of Investigation director.
On special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump said Mueller is "very, very good friends" with Comey and that the "people that have been hired are all Hillary Clinton supporters". Destroying them would be a crime. You been hearing the word unmasking, a word you've probably never heard before, so you never know what's out there and I didn't tape and I don't have any tape and I didn't tape. But Comey, though a likely witness, would not be a considered a victim of a crime in the classic sense as the firing in and of itself would not be illegal, said Stephen Gillers, a legal ethics scholar at the New York University law school.
Mark Warner of Virginia, top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said, "This administration never ceases to amaze me".
So Mr. Mueller's enlarged focus on possible Trump obstruction of justice brings the political narrative closer to the first impeachment crisis since the Bill Clinton sex scandal of more than 20 years ago. "I don't know how this serves the country's interests". Those days came and went without an answer.
But more broadly than his bluff, Trump also tried to sow seeds of doubt around special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. At a White House ceremony, Mueller praised Comey as a man of "honesty, dedication and integrity", and Comey repaid the favor minutes later by joking that he "must be out of my mind to be following Bob Mueller".
Earlier this month, Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that he was sacked by the president "because of the Russian investigation". He said Thursday that he did not record his conversations with Comey, ending weeks of speculation.
Trump also hinted that politics may be an influence in the probe.
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