White House press secretary Sean Spicer fought with reporters Thursday over what he said was their refusal to cover lawmakers’ comments that no evidence has surfaced to support allegations of inappropriate contact between President Trump’s associates and Russian officials.
“It’s interesting to me that … when one entity says one thing that claims one thing, you guys cover it ad nauseam,” Spicer said in the White House. “When [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Devin Nunes came out and said, ‘I think it’s very possible’ yesterday [about surveillance against Russia], there was crickets from you guys. When Devin Nunes came out and said there was no connection that he saw to Russia, crickets.”
Spicer was referring to Nunes’ claim on Wednesday that surveillance methods may have collected some communications related to Trump’s campaign through other probes.
“Where was your passion, and where was your concern when they all said that there was no connection to Russia?” Spicer asked.
Spicer hits back at media: "Where was your passion and concern when there was no connection to Russia?" https://t.co/7dcsNkwcfS pic.twitter.com/gwpoPHEB7V— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 16, 2017
“At the end of the day, there was a clearly a ton of reporting … about activity that was going on in the 2016 election. There was no question that there was surveillance techniques” going on during the campaign, Spicer added.
Spicer proceeded to list out a series of stories from the last few months indicating that Trump may have been spied on by the Obama administration.
