Mr. Comey has argued that the highly charged claim is untrue and must be corrected, but the department has not released any such statement. Mr. Trump started the controversy on Saturday when he made a series of posts on Twitter that said he had just learned that Mr. Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower in October. Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” Mr. Trump said. Ms. Sanders said on Monday that she did not know whether Mr. Trump had been in contact with Mr. Comey. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Stephanopoulos asked again whether Mr. Trump accepted Mr. Comey’s contention.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2017 13:59 UTC