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McCain says Trump has two choices on wiretap claim: provide evidence or retract
“President Trump has to provide the American people — not just the intelligence community, but the American people — with evidence that his predecessor, former president of the Unites States, was guilty of breaking the law,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
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The Arizona Republican, who lost the 2008 presidential election to Obama, said he has “no reason to believe that the charge is true.”
Trump leveled the explosive claim in a series of tweets last weekend.
Trump declared." data-reactid="12">“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump declared.
he added." data-reactid="13">“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” he added.
Trump provided no evidence to back up the claims, and a spokesman for Obama branded the accusation “simply false.” The White House then called on Congress to investigate to “determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.”
According to the New York Times, FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department “to publicly reject” Trump’s assertion that Obama ordered the tapping of Trump’s phones.
McCain said Trump could put the issue to rest by calling the director of the CIA and the director of National Intelligence for proof.
“The president of the Unites States could clear this up in a minute,” McCain said. “All he has to do is pick up the phone, call the director of the CIA, director of National Intelligence and say, ‘OK, what happened?’ Because they certainly should know whether the former president of the United States was wiretapping Trump Tower.”
Indeed, if Trump had obtained wiretapping information from his own intelligence sources, he would have the authority to declassify the material and substantiate his claims.
“There’s a lot of aspects of this whole relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin that requires further scrutiny,” McCain said. “And, so far, I don’t think the American people have gotten all the answers. In fact, I think there’s a lot more shoes to drop from this centipede.”
“This does deserve an investigation, because there are just so many coincidences,” Hayden said.
Hayden, a vocal critic of Trump during the campaign, said there seems to be a lot of what he would call “connective tissue between at least elements of the Trump campaign and people inside the Russian Federation — an unusual number.”
McCain says Trump has two choices on wiretap claim: provide evidence or retract
“President Trump has to provide the American people — not just the intelligence community, but the American people — with evidence that his predecessor, former president of the Unites States, was guilty of breaking the law,” McCain said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
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The Arizona Republican, who lost the 2008 presidential election to Obama, said he has “no reason to believe that the charge is true.”
Trump leveled the explosive claim in a series of tweets last weekend.
Trump declared." data-reactid="12">“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump declared.
he added." data-reactid="13">“Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” he added.
Trump provided no evidence to back up the claims, and a spokesman for Obama branded the accusation “simply false.” The White House then called on Congress to investigate to “determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.”
According to the New York Times, FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department “to publicly reject” Trump’s assertion that Obama ordered the tapping of Trump’s phones.
McCain said Trump could put the issue to rest by calling the director of the CIA and the director of National Intelligence for proof.
“The president of the Unites States could clear this up in a minute,” McCain said. “All he has to do is pick up the phone, call the director of the CIA, director of National Intelligence and say, ‘OK, what happened?’ Because they certainly should know whether the former president of the United States was wiretapping Trump Tower.”
Indeed, if Trump had obtained wiretapping information from his own intelligence sources, he would have the authority to declassify the material and substantiate his claims.
“There’s a lot of aspects of this whole relationship with Russia and Vladimir Putin that requires further scrutiny,” McCain said. “And, so far, I don’t think the American people have gotten all the answers. In fact, I think there’s a lot more shoes to drop from this centipede.”
“This does deserve an investigation, because there are just so many coincidences,” Hayden said.
Hayden, a vocal critic of Trump during the campaign, said there seems to be a lot of what he would call “connective tissue between at least elements of the Trump campaign and people inside the Russian Federation — an unusual number.”
