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Politico reports: The veracity of President Donald Trump’s claims has “real-world consequences,” California Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday. Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said he doesn’t expect to see any evidence of the president’s explosive and unsubstantiated allegation last weekend that President Barack Obama illegally wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign, which the White House …

The Hill reports: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said President Trump either has to retract his claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, or provide evidence of the allegations. “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 …

The Guardian reports: A former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump has written to congressional investigators claiming, without evidence, that his mobile phone may have been tapped last year. Carter Page, a businessman, suggests this would support the view that the Trump campaign headquarters at Trump Tower in New York was under surveillance, since he works nearby and was a …

Mediaite reports: Press Secretary Sean Spicer had a flummoxed moment on Thursday when he was asked about today’s news that Trump ally Nigel Farage went to the embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lives. “I have my own concerns here keeping track of what everyone is doing. I generally don’t worry about what’s going on across the pond,” Spicer said. …

The Hill reports: Vice President Pence refused to answer Wednesday when asked if he believes President Trump’s wiretapping claim against former President Barack Obama. Pence was asked during an interview with CNN affiliate WEWS reporter John Kosich about Trump’s incendiary claims that Obama tapped Trump Tower during last year’s campaign. “What I can say is that the president and our …

This afternoon White House press secretary Sean Spicer responded sarcastically to a reporter’s plea that Trump personally respond to questioning about his baseless wiretapping claims. Spicer: “I’ll ask. Is there anyone else? Show of hands?” Unsurprisingly, nearly every reporter shot up their hand. Watch below.

Remember a few months ago when these things were deadly dull? Via CNBC: White House press secretary Sean Spicer holds his daily briefing on Wednesday afternoon. He will likely face more questions about the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and President Donald Trump’s unfounded accusation that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower before the 2016 election.

The Hill reports: White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday said that President Trump won’t withdraw his claim that former President Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election. “Why would he withdraw it until it’s adjudicated?” Spicer asked. Spicer wouldn’t comment further during Tuesday’s briefing about whether there is evidence to support Trump’s accusation and said that the House …

White House press secretary Sean Spicer vanished from public view more than a week ago and has only held off-camera (and combative) briefings with the press. Today he returns to the podium where he will surely face grilling about Trump’s insane wiretapping claims, Trumpcare, and the new Muslim travel ban. Watch below.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer got bitchy with reporters today when they questioned Trump’s relentless attacks on the media and his baseless wiretapping claims. Today’s press gaggle was again held without cameras present, but PBS live-streamed the audio. Raw Story reports: “People start taking things as fact because a series of off-the-record and anonymous sources … We have started …

The Hill reports: A White House spokeswoman on Monday criticized the media while defending President Trump after he claimed that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election. “The media loves to create this false narrative against the current president but is so quick to dismiss anything under the past administration,” Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday on NBC’s …

Via Politico: Chuck Schumer has a blunt assessment of Donald Trump’s accusation that Barack Obama tapped his phones last fall: “The president is in trouble.” The Senate minority leader said Sunday morning that Trump’s Saturday-morning allegations about former President Obama will be damaging to Trump’s presidency whether they are true or not and that “the president makes it worse with …