Former Obama Press Sec - 'I Don't Know' If We Ordered Trump Wiretaps

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Although our corrupt media is pretending the exact opposite is the case, here are the facts…. To find the truth, you might have to read 14 paragraphs below a dishonest New York Times or CNN headline, but again and again we are being told there is absolutely no evidence that the Trump Campaign did anything wrong with respect to Russia.

On the other hand, there is all kinds of evidence Trump is correct in his assertion that the Obama Administration wiretapped Trump Tower.

For the last few months, numerous reports in media outlets hostile to Trump have reported on the existence of wiretaps, as well as the Obama White House receiving reports on these wiretaps, as well as the Obama White House being granted a FISA warrant that would authorize, among other things, wiretaps.

Moreover, prior to the Inauguration and Trump moving into the White House, there is only one place where Team Trump could have been wiretapped -- at Trump Tower.

Adding to this pile of evidence is Josh Earnest, Obama's former-Press Secretary, and his highly legalistic parsing when confronted with a direct question about the Obama Administration's involvement in wiretaps against Trump and his team, wiretaps that almost certainly existed.

Here's a partial transcript from Sunday morning. But you should read the whole thing. [emphasis added]

ABC NEWS' MARTHA RADDATZ: That's not what I'm asking. What I'm asking is, can you deny that the Obama Justice Department did not seek and obtain a FISA court-ordered wiretap of the Trump campaign?

JOSH EARNEST: It was a cardinal rule -- here's the simple answer to that question, is, Martha, I don't know. And it's not because I'm no longer in government. The fact is, even when I was in government, I was not in a position of being regularly briefed on an FBI criminal or counterintelligence investigation. …

RADDATZ: Do you to know whether the president was ever given information about surveillance at Trump Tower?

EARNEST: What I can tell you -- well, first of all, I'm not aware of all of the details of how the president was briefed by the FBI. But what I can tell you is the president was not giving marching orders to the FBI about how to conduct their investigations. He was not asking for regular updates on FBI investigations.

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