No Evidence Trump Tower Was Wiretapped — Senate Intelligence Committee

The Brits were not pleased.

The leaders of both the House and Senate intelligence committees said earlier this week they hadn’t seen any evidence to support Trump’s claims.

Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims.

The shorter version: Before Fox News’s reporting is challenged, we stand by it. And as the fallout has spread each time, Trump has refused to admit any wrongdoing.

“I believe such a statement would serve the public well, and I fear that without an official answer this issue will continue to linger”, Graham said in a statement.

Trump has accused Obama of ordering wiretaps at his Trump Tower in NY, but two weeks after the extraordinary claim, he has not delivered any evidence.

Last week, Trump went on a complete tangent alleging that the former president unlawfully wiretapping him during his campaign.

On Thursday, the Trump administration’s mouthpiece stated that “three intelligence sources” informed Fox News that the former president went beyond using the NSA, CIA, or Federal Bureau of Investigation, instead seeking assistance from the foreign spy agency. The White House should not be using media over their own intelligence resources.

And officials are just as baffled over the latest ridiculous twist in these claims coming from Trump’s carnival show of an administration.

James Slack, May’s spokesman, said Friday that the White House has promised not to repeat the line. There was no immediate comment from the Trump administration.

Those around the president, though, have proved more than willing to play along with the president’s theories. “They have 24-7 access to the NSA database”, Napolitano said on the March 14 version of “Fox & Friends”.

The British government had already debunked this claim, but Sean Spicer still trusted Fox News over the government of an ally. I said, “Wait a minute; there’s a lot of wiretapping being talked about”. “It’s a shame people who should know better fell for it”.

Britain’s ambassador to Washington Kim Darroch spoke directly to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, although May’s spokesman refused to say whether the U.S. administration had apologized. The Burr-Warner statement might make it easier for Comey to navigate that political minefield. “Apparently there is no evidence of proof or any basis in fact so I think you should simply retract it”. “You should be talking to Fox”. Yet Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Friday afternoon said that the news side of the organization couldn’t confirm the contention.

After the news conference, Spicer pushed back on the idea that he apologized. “That’s it”, Spicer told reporters.

“At least we have something in common, perhaps”, Trump said, gesturing to Merkel, whose phone was once tapped by the National Security Agency. In reality, however, literally none of the media reports substantiate Trump’s allegations.

“I’ve been reading about things”, Mr Trump said.

“We’re talking about the president of the US”.

“It just feels off the rails”, he added. As with birtherism, it’s Trump against nearly everybody, a vantage point that allows him to constantly be the embattled, populist outsider, even as he sits in the White House. “They work for him”.

Trump’s charge became harder and harder to defend as aides continued to be unable to provide any evidence to back it up, and as the Washington Post reported that the allegation seemed to originate with an unsourced Breitbart article circulating among top Trump aides titled “Mark Levin to Congress: Investigate Obama’s “Silent Coup” vs. Trump”.

After the Sweden flub, Breitbart published a piece called “Ten Incidents in Ten Days That Proved Trump Right on Sweden’s Migration Problem”. It called the allegation Spicer embraced “ridiculous”.