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Ryan, Senate Intel committee see no evidence of Trump wiretap The speaker of the House, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman and the ranking Democrat on the committee said Thursday that they've seen no evidence of President Donald Trump's accusation that he was wiretapped last year by his predecessor. Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr and ranking member Mark Warner issued a statement Thursday, saying "based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016." The statement from the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee marks the clearest and strongest refutation of Trump's allegations since the President first made them two weeks ago. The senators statement also addresses Trump's more recent statement that he was not merely speaking about wiretapping specifically. The White House on Thursday said the statement did not shake their confidence in the accusation. Press secretary Sean Spicer, asked to respond to the accusation, read an extensive litany of news reports from the podium that showed intelligence agencies' interest in Trump's activities, but none that actually corroborated Trump's claim. "He stands by it," Spicer said, characterizing the Intelligence Committee's statement as not final. "They have yet to go through the information." Spicer engaged in a lengthy exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta over whether the President stands by his allegation that he was wiretapped specifically and not under surveillance in general. "We talked about this several days ago," Spicer said. "The bottom line is that the investigation by the House and Senate has not been provided all the information." The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee have said they have yet to see any evidence of wiretapping, but have yet to flatly rule out all surveillance. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that it was possible that Trump aides were surveilled via "incidental" collection. Ranking Democrat of the House committee Adam Schiff told CNN that he expects FBI Director James Comey to also say that he's seen no evidence of Trump's claim when the director testifies before his committee Monday. "Because there's no evidence of this at all," Schiff told CNN. "But again you can see the President trying to say, 'Well I didn't mean what I said or what I said could mean various different things' — he was very specific in what he said. So we'll ask the director to address that very specific allegation." Their statement came hours after House Speaker Paul Ryan said that "no such wiretap existed," citing intelligence reports to House leaders. "The intelligence committees, in their continuing, widening, ongoing investigations of all things Russia, got to the bottom -- at least so far with respect to our intelligence community -- that no such wiretap existed," Ryan said in response to a question from CNN at a news conference. Ryan's comment follows Trump and the White House retreating from the President's stunning accusation in a tweet two weeks ago. "When I say wiretapping, those words were in quotes. That really covers -- because wiretapping is pretty old-fashioned stuff -- but that really covers surveillance and many other things. And nobody ever talks about the fact that it was in quotes, but that's a very important thing," Trump told Fox News Wednesday. Honesty is the best policy. |
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I feel that Trump has personal vendetta toward Obama, from birther, to Obama Care (Affordable Health Care Act), to wiretapping. We know Trump is a narcissist bigotry person. He wants to tarnish Obama's reputation to show that he has better ability for USA. Trump can't tolerate that crowd size comparison for Obama inauguration is much more than Trump inauguration. Obama is much popular than Trump. Now, Trump "imaged" Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower without evidence and accused Obama. Do you remember Trump said during his campaign "if he stand on 5th Avenue in New York and shoot somebody, he won't lose a vote". OMG, he is terrible. People elected a terrible person just because his campaign slogan sounded good "Make America Great Again". We all want USA to be great, but show me his ability. Honesty is the best policy.
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President Donald Trump defiantly refused to back down Friday from his explosive claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones, and sidestepped any blame for the White House decision to highlight an unverified report that Britain helped carry out the alleged surveillance. In brushing off the diplomatic row with perhaps America’s closest ally, Trump also revived another: the Obama administration’s monitoring of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s calls. “At least we have something in common, perhaps,” Trump quipped during a joint news conference with Merkel. Merkel, who was making her first visit to the White House since Trump took office, looked surprised by the president’s comment, which he appeared primed to deliver. The Obama administration’s spying infuriated Germany at the time and risked damaging the U.S. relationship with one of its most important European partners. Trump’s unproven recent allegations against his predecessor have left him increasingly isolated, with fellow Republican as well as Democratic lawmakers saying they’ve seen nothing from intelligence agencies to support his claim. But Trump, who rarely admits he’s wrong, has been unmoved, leaving his advisers in the untenable position of defending the president without any credible evidence. It is obvious that Trump hatred Obama. Honesty is the best policy.
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