Patch.com reports:
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer arrived more than an hour late to his scheduled press briefing on Thursday and got into a tense argument with two reporters right out of the gate over President Trump’s claims that President Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower.
As soon as Spicer began taking questions, he was asked about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s statement that there was no evidence to believe Trump’s wiretapping claims or any such surveillance. Spicer got into a heated argument with multiple reporters, saying that the media doesn’t cover when the ties between Trump and Russia are denied by official sources. (Though there have been many media reports about these kinds of claims, as well as reports that conflict with this information.)
Spicer refused to back down from defending Trump’s claims, instead rattling off a series of media reports about intelligence surveillance more broadly — which essentially disproved his claim that the media was ignoring parts of the intelligence narratives.
Sean Spicer lashed out at reporters during the daily press briefing over questions on Trump’s wiretapping claims https://t.co/MSX5E22Vaq pic.twitter.com/blim54bqZw
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2017
.@jaketapper: Sean Spicer cannot defend the indefensible, so he’s trying to change exactly what happened https://t.co/cEeWPks0Ls
— CNN (@CNN) March 16, 2017
.@PressSec spars with @jonkarl over Trump's wiretapping claims: "Calm down" pic.twitter.com/VejNbWEzno
— POLITICO (@politico) March 16, 2017