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I didn’t obstruct FBI’s probe into alleged Russian meddling, Trump says
Embattled US President Donald Trump has stated that he did not obstruct the FBI’s probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election which brought him into power.
“Look there has been no obstruction, there has been no collusion,” Trump told Fox News Channel in an interview set to air on Friday. Fox released a partial transcript of the interview on Thursday,” He said.
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Continuing, Trump noted that he did not he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could undercut Comey’s description of events.
“I have no idea whether there are ‘tapes’ or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” he wrote on Twitter.
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