President
Trump tweeted on June 22 that he doesn't possess — and didn't record — tapes of
his private conversations with former FBI director James B. Comey. (Peter
Stevenson/The Washington Post)
The words leapt from President Trump’s mind to Twitter at 8:26 a.m. on the Friday after he fired FBI director James B. Comey, setting off a cascade of activity inside and outside the federal government to figure out what, exactly, he meant.
