By Elise Foley, Huffington Post:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said President Donald Trump and his administration need to “just grow up” and stop doubling down on unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama and British intelligence colluded to spy on him.
In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Pelosi said it was “really important” that FBI Director James Comey say publicly that there is no evidence of what she called a “terrible accusation.”
“Of course it’s not true,” she said in the interview, conducted on Friday. “So let’s just grow up. … The Justice Department, the FBI has to really clear this. Because otherwise this administration has decided that they, with impunity, can say anything, and it’s really damaging.”
Trump claimed earlier this month in a series of tweets that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign, providing no evidence. The White House has scrambled since then to defend him for it ― even at the risk of alienating a major U.S. ally.
Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano, a former New Jersey judge, who said that British intelligence helped Obama with surveillance of Trump. The Government Communications Headquarters, which is the U.K.’s version of the National Security Agency, made a rare public statement to call the claim “nonsense” and “utterly ridiculous.”
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