Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said Monday that he has not seen any evidence that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, but that President Trump will have access to any documents on the matter because wiretapping creates a paper trail.
“No, sir,” Gowdy told Fox News’ Bill Hemmer when asked if he has seen evidence to back up Trump’s accusation. “I don’t think the FBI is the Obama team and I don’t think the men and women who are career prosecutors at DOJ belong to any team other than a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales.
“We have certain tools that this country needs to keep us safe, and it is great and wise and prudent and legal for those tools to be used lawfully and appropriately,” Gowdy said. “If they’re not used lawfully and appropriately, there is a paper trail and we’ll be able to find it out.”
The South Carolina Republican said it is “hard to cross-examine tweets,” a reference to Trump’s Saturday morning messages in which he raised the issue, compared it to the Watergate scandal and called former President Obama a “sick” guy.
Gowdy added that the Trump administration and the Department of Justice will have access to the pertinent documents if either an intelligence or criminal inquiry was launched under Obama.
“The Obama team is no longer in charge,” he said. “So any information the current Department of Justice has that suggests the previous Department of Justice acted inappropriately, they are welcome to release it.”
