Hmm. So that would mean Trump abused his position by claiming there were tapes? Abuse of power, maybe?
The Secret Service on Monday said it has no copies or transcripts of audio recordings made within the White House during President Donald Trump’s term so far, though Trump appeared to suggest a recording system may exist inside the Oval Office.
“It appears, from a review of Secret Service’s main indices, that there are no records pertaining to your request that are referenced in these indices,” the Secret Service wrote to the Wall Street Journal in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.


That would have been the same answer that Nixon would have given. You need to find Alexander Butterfield.
‘ “It appears, from a review of Secret Service’s main indices, that there are no records pertaining to your request that are referenced in these indices,” the Secret Service wrote…’
I wonder what this bureaucratic jargon means in English.