The Republicans paid no price for the phony Benghazi investigations
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so they obviously might see no downside to investigating Obama 'wiretaps of Trump'. They are never penalized. In fact wasn't that how they found Hillary had a private email server? Maybe this Obama fishing trip, into what Obama did regarding Trump team's possible collusion with Russia during the election, is to find out how little Obama did so they can use to prove that it was not a big deal. Or maybe they just want to dig so many tunnels into the Russia thing that it will look like Oak Island: too dug up to find anything important anymore.
Trump turns to Congress on wiretap claim, Obama camp denies it, FBI disputes it
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/trump-obama-wiretap-allegation-spicer-investigation-1.4010659
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Spicer said the White House wants the congressional committees to "exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."
'Tool of an authoritarian'
He said there would be no further comment until the investigations are completed, a statement House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi took offense to and likened to autocratic behaviour.
"It's called a wrap-up smear. You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge. It's a tool of an authoritarian," Pelosi said.
Spicer's chief deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said she thinks Trump is "going off of information that he's seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential."
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