White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday she has no evidence of President Trump’s claim that President Obama ordered his phones to be tapped, but thanked Congress for deciding to investigate the claim.
“I have no evidence, but that’s why there’s an investigation in Congress,” she said on ABC Monday morning.
She also said she wasn’t trying to suggest she had any information about it when she told the Bergen Record over the weekend that the CIA has the ability to use a microwave oven to spy on people. She said she was not trying to suggest that something similar may have happened to Trump, and was only trying to highlight some of the techniques the government can use.
“Of course I have no evidence for those allegations, and that answer has nothing to do with what the president said last week,” she said.
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Monday marks a deadline given to Trump by congressional leaders to provide any kind of evidence that Obama ordered spies to listen to Trump’s phone calls. In an interview on NBC Monday morning, Conway said she couldn’t comment why Trump hasn’t ordered that information, if it exists, to be declassified and released to the public.
“I can’t comment on the private conversations he’s had with his attorney general … but we’re aware of the deadline and we’re glad it’s happening,” she said.
Conway said all Trump wanted was for Congress to investigate his claims.
Two weekends ago, Trump said he “just found out” Obama tapped his phones, called him a “bad (or sick) guy” and compared him to Richard Nixon and Joseph McCarthy. Trump aides took to cable TV news to call on Congress to investigate Trump’s claims in the days following his tweets last week.
Conway said on Fox News the administration is happy Congress wants to investigate, but didn’t give any clues as to when Trump would send information backing up his claims to lawmakers.
“We know this happens,” Conway said of spying. “As for Trump Tower though, we’ll see where these investigations lead.”
She said the administration wouldn’t be commenting on the allegations further until the congressional investigations are done.
