Donald Trump has resolutely refused to withdraw his support from Senate candidate Roy Moore, even in the wake of the sexual harassment and assault accusations leveled against Moore—and the unflattering comparisons many have drawn between descriptions of Moore’s behavior and the infamous Access Hollywood tape in which Trump himself bragged that, because he was famous, he could “grab” women “by the pussy.” Though Trump confirmed the leaked tape’s authenticity in the fall of 2016, new reports indicate that the president is now claiming that the clip is fake as well.

The tape, which surfaced just weeks before the November 2016 election, featured Trump bragging to then-Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about touching women, apparently without their consent. Trump apologized hours after the tape was released, later downplaying his words as simply “locker room talk.” But more recently, according to a New York Times report about Trump’s persistent support of Moore, Trump has said on at least two occasions, to two people within his administration, that he doesn’t think the tape is real—or, at least, that he doesn’t think the voice on he tape actually belongs to Trump:

He sees the calls for Mr. Moore to step aside as a version of the response to the now-famous Access Hollywood tape, in which he boasted about grabbing women’s genitalia, and the flood of groping accusations against him that followed soon after. He suggested to a senator earlier this year that it was not authentic, and repeated that claim to an adviser more recently. (In the hours after it was revealed in October 2016, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the voice was his, and he apologized.)

Moore has been accused by six women of pursuing relationships with them when they were teenagers and he was an assistant district attorney in his 30s, and by two of assault. Moore has denied all allegations. Trump has thrown his support behind his fellow Republican, urging voters last week not to vote for Moore’s “liberal” rival Doug Jones.