A day after President Donald Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his communications during the late stages of the 2016 presidential campaign, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Sunday that neither Trump nor any White House official will be commenting further on the matter. Citing unspecified “reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations,” Spicer announced in a statement that “neither the White House nor the President will comment further” until Congress investigates the explosive allegation as part of its existing probe into Russia’s interference in the election. “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. This is McCarthyism!”Spicer’s statement on Sunday suggests the White House doesn’t plan to offer any evidence supporting the president’s politically charged claim. A spokesman for Obama denied that the former president, or any other White House official, had ordered surveillance on a private U.S. citizen.

Source: Huffington Post March 05, 2017 15:00 UTC