On “Meet the Press” Sunday morning, Rep. Adam Schiff (D), a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said that he expects FBI Director James Comey to state definitively that President Trump’s claim he was wiretapped by former President Obama to be completely false when he testifies before Congress tomorrow.
Adam Schiff says he expects Comey to say definitively tomorrow that Trump wasn't wiretapped by Obama https://t.co/ilxxY3B3ya @MeetThePress
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 19, 2017
Trump’s tweeted allegation that his residence, Trump tower, was bugged and his phone lines listened in on during the campaign last year has been the source of consternation in D.C. Earlier this week, conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer said that “there’s not a person in Washington who thinks there actually was a wiretap.”
“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” said Senate Intelligence committee chair Richard Burr (R) earlier this week on behalf of his committee.
As a reminder, here are the President’s claims:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
As a further reminder, Comey last year read a litany of very good reasons to investigate further, if not outright indict Hillary Clinton, before stating categorically that they had no intention of doing so.