Trump 示唆するs he was trying to keep Comey honest with `tapes´ tweet
US 大統領 Donald Trump has 示唆するd he was just trying to keep 解雇する／砲火／射撃d 連邦検察局 director James Comey honest with his cryptic tweet 暗示するing there might be recordings of their 私的な conversations.
Mr Trump ended a month-long guessing game on Thursday by tweeting that he never made and does not have recordings of his 私的な conversations with Mr Comey.
In an interview that 空気／公表するd on Friday on Fox & Friends, Mr Trump said: “When he 設立する out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it’s 政治の tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed.”
Asked if he was trying to keep Mr Comey honest, Mr Trump 追加するd: “It wasn’t very stupid, I can tell you that. He was ? he did 収容する／認める that what I said was 権利.”
The tapes saga began in May, just days after Mr Trump f 怒らせるd Mr Comey, who was then 主要な an 調査 into Trump associates’ 関係 to ロシアの 公式の／役人s.
Mr Trump has 論争d Mr Comey’s 見解／翻訳／版 of a January dinner during which, によれば Mr Comey, the 大統領，／社長 asked for a 誓約（する） of 忠義. Mr Trump 答える／応じるd at that time, 経由で Twitter, that Mr Comey “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts 漏れるing to the 圧力（をかける）!”
Mr Trump, in the Fox News Channel interview, did not say 正確に／まさに what he thought had changed about Mr Comey’s story.
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The former 連邦検察局 director has only 申し込む／申し出d his story 公然と once, in 証言 before the 上院 知能 委員会, although his associates 供給するd some 詳細（に述べる）s to the news マスコミ before that.
Mr Comey 証言するd that he had told the 大統領，／社長 in 多重の conversations he was not 本人自身で under 連邦の 調査 and said the 大統領，／社長 implored him to make that public. Mr Trump has 掴むd on that 声明 as vindication, though the 調査 continues, as do congressional 調査s.
Mr Comey also said that Mr Trump asked him for “忠義” ? which Mr Trump emphatically 否定するs.
Mr Trump’s 初期の Twitter missive about the 可能性 of tapes 誘発する／引き起こすd a 一連の consequences, each weightier than the last.
Donald Trump has criticised the former 連邦検察局 director on Twitter (J David Ake/AP)
Mr Comey has 示唆するd that the tweet 誘発するd him to ask an associate to 解放（する） 損失ing （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） to The New York Times.
The resulting news 報告（する）／憶測s built 圧力 on a 最高の，を越す 司法（官） department 公式の／役人 to 任命する an 独立した・無所属 検察官，検事 to 監督する the Russia 調査. That special counsel, former 連邦検察局 director Robert Mueller, is now 報道によれば 調査／捜査するing Mr Trump’s own 活動／戦闘s in a 調査（する） that could dog his 大統領／総裁などの地位 for the foreseeable 未来.
Mr Trump showed 関心 about that 状況／情勢 同様に, telling Fox that Mr Mueller is “very, very good friends with Comey which is bothersome”.
