McCain: Trump Should Provide Evidence For Wiretap Claim Or Retract It
“And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera”, she’d said, comments that were more about Team Trump’s long-standing use of isolated anecdotes to rebut broad trends than they were about Conway auditioning for a role in a James Bond film.
The request for evidence was made in a letter sent by committee chairman, Republican representative Devin Nunes, and the panel’s ranking Democrat, representative Adam Schiff, according to a congressional aide, who requested anonymity.
“I wasn’t making a suggestion about Trump Tower”, she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“What the president has asked is for the investigation into surveillance to be included into the ongoing intelligence investigations in the House and Senate”, said Conway in an interview with the Bergen County (N.J.) Record on Sunday, referring to the Senate and House investigations into the Trump campaign’s connections with Russian Federation.
Like Trump, Conway offered zero evidence to support any of her claims.
Earlier this morning, Conway was asked about those weird microwave claims by Chris Cuomo on New Day. As to Trump’s specific – and most controversial – claim that Obama had “wires” tapped in Trump Tower, Conway said: “We’ll see where these investigations lead”.
The statistics released Friday show that USA employers added 235,000 jobs in February, and that the unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent from 4.8 percent.
“It is unbelievable how rude much of the media is to my very hard working representatives”, he tweeted minutes after she wrapped up appearances on several morning talk shows.
In a tweet last weekend, Trump accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of ordering the tap.
Pressed whether she had evidence of such high-tech snooping, she said, no.
But Sen. Roy Blunt pointed out that the White House shouldn’t need Congress to investigate.
Add this one to Kellyanne Conway’s greatest hits, right between the #alternativefacts and “Buy Ivanka’s stuff!”
She continued to bolster her claim that Trump could have been monitored by other means, saying that technology could have been used by “microwaves that turn into cameras”. However, I am not in the job of having evidence.
The US President had celebrated data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics which revealed 235,000 new jobs were created in his first full month in the White House.