Headline Roundup • May 12th, 2017
Trump Threatens Comey
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Washington Post
President Trump suggested Friday that there may be “tapes” of his private conversations with FBI Director James B. Comey, whom he fired earlier this week, in an apparent attempt to threaten Comey about “leaking to the press."

CNN Digital
President Donald Trump issued a thinly veiled threat Friday to fired FBI Director James Comey, an extraordinary development in the ongoing feud between the President and the agencies investigating alleged ties between his campaign and Russia.
"James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press," the President tweeted.

The Daily Caller
President Trump implied that there are recordings of conversations he had with former FBI Director James Comey.
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