ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The top Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that there is no evidence that any wiretap took place at President Donald Trump’s building in Manhattan, New York during the presidential campaign or transition.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said that there is “no basis” for Trump’s accusations that former President Barack Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower “whatsoever.”
Schiff said it “deeply concerns me that the president would make such an accusation without basis.”
The committee’s chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said, “I don’t think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower.”
Trump had alleged in a series of Tweets that Obama had his phones tapped.
“The challenge here is that the President Obama wouldn’t physically go over and wiretap and then you have to decide if you’re going to take the tweets literally,” Nunes said referring to the multiple tweets that Trump sent on the morning of March 4 making accusations.
“I think it’s all an interpretation of what you believe,” he said.
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