The White House on Friday denied that President Donald Trump threatened the former FBI director James Comey who was fired early this week.“That’s not a threat. He simply stated a fact,” the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told reporters at his daily news conference.
Spicer was responding to questions on a tweet by Trump early in the morning.“James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press,” Trump said in his tweet.
Mr Spicer did not answer if the White House taped the conversation between Mr Trump and Mr Comey, which the President was referring to.“I’ve talked to the President. He has nothing further to add on that,” Mr Spicer said.
The Trump administration is considering nearly a dozen candidates, including senate majority whip John Cornyn, to replace fired FBI director James Comey, a media report said on Saturday. Four candidates assistant attorney general Alice Fisher, acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, Republican senator Cornyn and judge Michael J. Garcia of New York Court of Appeals, will be interviewed.
