As usual, the press in the White House had a stenographer who transcribed speeches in meetings with journalists, only as a mean of having an independent transcript.“None of that was hidden,” the former official said. “The stenographer sat in interviews with a tape recorder and sometimes even a boom mic — the same stenographers would tape and transcribe press briefings and gaggles. Journalists who interviewed President Obama would have been familiar with that. ”On Friday, US President Donald Trump wrote a warning on his twitter account directed to James Comey, former FBI director. Trump fired Comey during this week threatening that he “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking....MORE
