Spicer says Trump 'stands by' unproven allegation that Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Philip Rucker March 16 at 4:17 PM

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump “stands by” his allegation that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping surveillance of Trump Tower last fall, despite statements from the leaders of congressional investigations that no evidence had been found to support the claim.

In a remarkably combative exchange with reporters at his daily press briefing, Spicer was asked whether Trump still believes Obama ordered the alleged surveillance effort.

“He stands by it,” Spicer said, going on to assail journalists for the way they have reported on the controversy.

Earlier Thursday, the Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said their investigation into the matter so far has turned up no evidence that the U.S. government had conducted surveillance on Trump Tower in New York, either before or after the election on Nov. 8, 2016.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/03/16/spicer-says-trump-stands-by-unproven-allegation-that-obama-ordered-wiretapping-of-trump-tower/?utm_term=.046e27036ea8&wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation&wpmk=1

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. So Trumpism is a religion. No proof - just gotta believe!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. It's time for Trump to turn over that evidence he claims to have.

If you're going to make such accusations, you'd better have something to back them up.

[enough]

3. Why not? He stood by birtherism all this time. Anyway, in Trump world,

"standing by" something has no meaning one way or the other, since truth is of no interest to him.

[Grammy23]

4. If we think he will produce any credible evidence of this so called wire tapping...

We will have a long, long wait. Hell, some of us are still waiting on the information his people found in Hawaii regarding President Obama's "suspicious" birth location. You just wouldn't believe what they found.

[TBA]

5. Just a guess

But what if he was wiretapped by US Intelligence with probable cause?

In his mind that would be "Obama". And now all of the Repub Congressmen are all in tune saying "no wiretap". Why? They are protecting him from investigation because Russia ties be damned, they have their grand opportunity to remake the USA according to their grand vision. So they will accept the Russia ties.

Think about it...

It would be much worse if the wiretap theory was substantiated. They appear to me to be trying to get the heat off of him.

I think he was wiretapped.

Just my speculation.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I don't think he was directly wiretapped but

I think many of the people he worked with were and his calls were swept up in conversations being tracked, most likely due to being on the other end of some of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. One of the unaffiliated tenants in that building

should get a lawyer to subpoena him to provide the source of his allegations.

[FailureToCommunicate]

8. ANYTHING to keep questions about Russia connections muted.

"In a remarkably combative exchange with reporters", Spicer assailed journalists for reporting on it.

Maybe he's been watching his SNL parody skits?

[groundloop]

9. National Enquirer says they have proof, so it MUST be true