Perhaps Obama Ordered Trump’s Microwave Oven to Spy On Him

Conway then took things a step further saying, Trump could have been spied on through “microwaves that turn into cameras”.

“I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!”

The leaders of the committee have urged the Justice Department to respond by Monday with any evidence supporting the explosive allegations – because, just like Conway, the White House has yet to provide any evidence to support the baseless claims Trump tweeted last month.

Declaring that Congress “must get to the bottom” of Mr Trump’s claim, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked Mr Comey and Acting Deputy Attorney-General Dana Boente to produce the paper trail created when the Justice Department’s criminal division secures warrants for wiretaps.

So Conway wasn’t totally freelancing here, and she seemed to be riffing off something she had read in the news.

Days later, Trump demanded that the House and Senate committees investigate his claim, even though he never provided any supporting evidence.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, denied during an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” that the Russian government collaborated with Trump’s campaign. President Trump has been quiet about his wiretap allegation since tweeting it more than a week ago.

Trump has faced harsh criticism for accusing the Obama administration of wiretapping him without citing any evidence.

In an interview with the Bergen Record, columnist Mike Kelly talked to Ms. Conway about her thoughts.

But it’s congressional Republicans, including those who avidly support Trump and his agenda, who could face their own political heat in the 2018 elections based on how they handle the claims, which have been dismissed by Obama and intelligence officials. “[My] response to Bergen Record was about surveillance articles in news & techniques generally, not about campaign”, she wrote on Monday.

Accusations that she intentionally leveled an allegation against Obama without evidence have come from at least in part from “other people who don’t necessarily want Donald Trump to be the president”, she said. But the The Washington Post points out that’s not true, as Conway answered directly to a question about the campaign and the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower.