--- title: Donald Trump Is Willing to Go Under Oath About James Comey description: President Trump said he is "100 percent" willing to testify under oath about his dealings with fired FBI Director James Comey canonical: https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-09T19:39:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T05:21:55.035Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Says He's '100%' Willing to Testify Under Oath About Comey og:description: He said Comey lied during his testimony og:url: https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt397b38e4dd1a4ae7/6988d115cf40a8d053c48113/trump4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Says He's '100%' Willing to Testify Under Oath About Comey twitter:description: He said Comey lied during his testimony twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt397b38e4dd1a4ae7/6988d115cf40a8d053c48113/trump4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Trump Says He's '100%' Willing to Testify Under Oath About James Comey  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 9, 2017 7:39 PM UTC  President Trump holds a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House, on June 9, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Trump holds a joint news conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Rose Garden at the White House, on June 9, 2017 in Washington, DC.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jun 9, 2017 7:39 PM UTC President Trump said he is “100%” willing to testify under oath about his dealings with [fired FBI Director James Comey](http://time.com/4812412/comey-testimony-trump-vindication/), after disputing [statements Comey made](http://time.com/4811888/comey-testimony-marc-kasowitz-mistake/) during his Thursday Senate testimony. Responding to questions after a Friday [joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis](http://time.com/4812476/donald-trump-meets-klaus-iohannis-watch-online/), Trump said he would be “100 percent” willing to testify under oath that he did not ask Comey for a loyalty pledge, as Comey has claimed. “I hardly know the man, I’m not going to say ‘I want you to pledge allegiance,'” Trump said. “I hardly know the man. It doesn’t make sense.” Trump also denied that he ever told Comey that he “hope\[d\]” he would drop an investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser Mike Flynn. While strongly refuting these claims, Trump remained cagey about whether or not he has tapes of his conversations with Comey, which he has suggested that he might. “I’m not hinting anything,” Trump said when asked if he was hinting that recordings exist. “I’ll tell you about it over a very short period of time… You’re going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don’t worry.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/"},"headline":"President Trump Says He's '100%' Willing to Testify Under Oath About James Comey","datePublished":"2017-06-09T19:39:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T05:21:55.035Z","description":"He said Comey lied during his testimony","url":"https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/","keywords":["White House","James Comey","onetime","president trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt397b38e4dd1a4ae7/6988d115cf40a8d053c48113/trump4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt397b38e4dd1a4ae7/6988d115cf40a8d053c48113/trump4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis","caption":"President Trump Holds News Conference With President Of Romania Klaus Iohannis","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4813263/donald-trump-james-comey-testify-under-oath/","name":"President Trump Says He's '100%' Willing to Testify Under Oath About James Comey"}}]}] ```