So then there are tapes?

No, no, there aren’t.

Shocker of shockers: Donald Trump was utterly confusing at his news conference on Friday afternoon. But I don’t think he was confused.

Ever the entertainer, he knows the power of teases, of misdirection, of suspense. And he decided — perhaps for his own amusement, perhaps to pull our attention away from the legalities of his interactions with James Comey — to keep people guessing about whether he’d recorded any of those conversations, as he vaguely suggested he had last month.

He wore an expression of mischief on his face. He looked pleased. He clarified nothing.

“I’ll tell you about that maybe sometime in the very near future,” he said when answering the initial question he received. These were his first public comments since Comey’s raptly watched, riveting testimony on Thursday morning.

“Maybe.” “Future.” Stay tuned, Americans. There are many reveals ahead in the exciting episodes to come.