Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Friday dismissed reporting by his colleague that former President Barack Obama had reached out the British intelligence to help him spy on Trump Tower.
“Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary. Fox News knows of no evidence of any kind that the president of the United States was surveilled at any time in any way, full stop,” Smith said on the air Friday.
Shep is not happy. Full stop. pic.twitter.com/IfCLU0jDPy— Colin Jones (@colinjones) March 17, 2017
Napolitano, in an appearance on “Fox and Friends” earlier in the week, cited three unnamed intelligence sources when he claimed Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency spied on President Trump on Obama’s order during the 2016 campaign.
That claim was then brought up by White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday, after which British called the report “nonsense” and White House officials reportedly apologized to their British counterparts.
During a joint press conference Friday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump stood by his assertion that he was spied on by the Obama administration and told his foreign counterpart that they had “something in common, perhaps.”
Smith said Trump still has no evidence to substantiate those claims.
“Of course the president could learn firsthand whether the building in which he lives was wiretapped,” Smith said. “All he’d have to do is ask the intelligence services. They work for him.”
