Top Republicans decline to back up Trump's unproven wiretapping claim

[Cigar]

While the White House on Tuesday stood by Donald Trump’s assertion that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign, top Republicans on Capitol Hill provided little support to bolster his explosive and unsubstantiated claim.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said he had not seen any evidence to back up a series of tweets by Trump on Saturday that accused Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower. “We have an existing intelligence committee looking at all aspects of what may have been done last year related to the Russians or the campaign and we’ll leave it there,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters.

Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, also could not offer any proof of Trump’s allegations while speaking at a separate press conference.

“At this point, we don’t have any evidence of that,” said Nunes, whose panel is investigating Russian interference in the US election.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/trump-wiretap-obama-republicans-us-intelligence


Man, if McTrutle isn't backing the bull****, you know that the Trumpster's in Trouble! :lamo

 

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Even the propaganda minister herself, Miss Kellyanne, and her understudy, Miss Huckabee Sanders, wouldn't back POTUS on this round of "bizarreness". Looks like part of the staff may be getting tired of looking like idiots trying to defend non-stop tweeting nonsense.

 

[joG]

While the White House on Tuesday stood by Donald Trump’s assertion that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign, top Republicans on Capitol Hill provided little support to bolster his explosive and unsubstantiated claim.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, said he had not seen any evidence to back up a series of tweets by Trump on Saturday that accused Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Tower. “We have an existing intelligence committee looking at all aspects of what may have been done last year related to the Russians or the campaign and we’ll leave it there,” the Kentucky Republican told reporters.

Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House intelligence committee, also could not offer any proof of Trump’s allegations while speaking at a separate press conference.

“At this point, we don’t have any evidence of that,” said Nunes, whose panel is investigating Russian interference in the US election.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/trump-wiretap-obama-republicans-us-intelligence


Man, if McTrutle isn't backing the bull****, you know that the Trumpster's in Trouble! :lamo

I understand The Guardian's stance. They back an anti American position in most of their writing and Trump is anathema. But why not be realistic about the thing? Let it be looked into and we will see.

 

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Makes you wonder if there were some, "top", Republicans in on it.

 

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Makes you wonder if there were some, "top", Republicans in on it.

Would that be a vast right wing conspiracy? Or is it now the Trump Nationalist Empire vs. The Diabolical Corporate Globalists or something?