Senior US lawmakers say Wednesday they had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his New York home and office building.
“We don’t have any evidence that that took place,” says Devin Nunes, Republican chairman of the congressional committee conducting a probe into the allegation, at a press conference.
Based the investigation by the House Intelligence Committee he heads, “I don’t think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower,” says Nunes, whose committee is also conducting an investigation into suspected Russian interference in last year’s US election.
President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump to update him on transition planning in the Oval Office at the White House on November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Jim Watson)
Nunes’ conclusion is echoed by the panel’s top Democrat, Adam Schiff.
“To date I’ve seen no evidence that supports the claim that President Trump made that his predecessor had wiretapped he and his associates at Trump Tower,” Schiff tells reporters at the press conference.
“Thus far, we have seen no basis for that whatsoever.”
— AFP
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