GOP Rep.: Without Evidence, Trump Owes Obama Apology For Wiretapping Charge

FILE - This Aug. 28, 2013 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, speaking during a town hall meeting in Duncan, Okla. As Oklahoma Democrats look for traction in races against three incumbent Republican cong... FILE - This Aug. 28, 2013 file photo shows U.S. Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, speaking during a town hall meeting in Duncan, Okla. As Oklahoma Democrats look for traction in races against three incumbent Republican congressmen, the state Democratic Party chairman says he hasnít even heard from one of the partyís nominees. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File) MORE LESS
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A Republican congressman said Friday that, without “pretty compelling proof,” President Donald Trump should apologize to former President Barack Obama for Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that Obama ordered surveillance on him during the 2016 campaign.

“I see no indication that that’s true,” Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) told CNN’s Manu Raju of Trump’s charge. “And so it’s not a charge I would have ever made.”

“Frankly, unless you can produce some pretty compelling proof, then I think the President, you know, President Obama is owed an apology in that regard. If he didn’t do it, we shouldn’t be reckless in accusations that he did,” Cole told reporters.

Trump has offered no evidence for his claim, though he referenced news reports that used the word “wiretap,” a term he used, in an interview Wednesday.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer did the same on Thursday, including reading from a report accusing the British intelligence service of providing Obama with surveillance on Trump.

The U.S. government has since apologized for the claim against Britain’s GCHQ.

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  1. How he keeps getting reelected despite his conspicuous sanity is a mystery to me.

  2. Resident Rump will never apologize. Ever. Because his ego will not allow him to be wrong.

  3. Avatar for cd cd says:

    Civil suit? Sue tRUmp’s ass for character defamation, tRUmp should be good with that as it is how he treats all others

  4. Trump: Who? The black guy with tiny hands?

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