Conway denies suggesting wider surveillance of Trump
- 7 лет назад
Conway denies suggesting wider surveillance of Trump.White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is denying she suggested there was wider surveillance of President Donald Trump during the campaign, telling CNN Monday that her comments in a recent interview were taken out of context.
Sunday night, Conway appeared to expand Trump's allegations that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower -- a claim for which the President has not yet provided evidence -- when she told the Bergen Record there could have been even wider spying on the Trump campaign, including the use of microwaves and television sets.
She did not provide any evidence for the claims.
Pressed about the comments by CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day," Conway insisted she was not alleging actions by the Obama administration against the Trump campaign.
"I was answering a question about surveillance techniques generally," she said.
When Cuomo pressed Conway on her answer -- saying the question posed to her was "asked specifically" rather than generally -- Conway shot back, countering that she was not responsible for providing proof of such surveillance.
"I'm not Inspector Gadget," Conway said. "I don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the Trump campaign. However, I'm not in the job of having evidence; that's what investigations are for."
Rather than alluding to wider surveillance of the Trump campaign, she said she was simply noting that there were news reports of advanced technologies that facilitate spying, an observation that had been warped thanks to people's desires to "fit things how they want," Conway said.
"I was talking about surveillance generally, but people are going to fit that the way they want to fit it," Conway said.
Sunday night, Conway appeared to expand Trump's allegations that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower -- a claim for which the President has not yet provided evidence -- when she told the Bergen Record there could have been even wider spying on the Trump campaign, including the use of microwaves and television sets.
She did not provide any evidence for the claims.
Pressed about the comments by CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day," Conway insisted she was not alleging actions by the Obama administration against the Trump campaign.
"I was answering a question about surveillance techniques generally," she said.
When Cuomo pressed Conway on her answer -- saying the question posed to her was "asked specifically" rather than generally -- Conway shot back, countering that she was not responsible for providing proof of such surveillance.
"I'm not Inspector Gadget," Conway said. "I don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the Trump campaign. However, I'm not in the job of having evidence; that's what investigations are for."
Rather than alluding to wider surveillance of the Trump campaign, she said she was simply noting that there were news reports of advanced technologies that facilitate spying, an observation that had been warped thanks to people's desires to "fit things how they want," Conway said.
"I was talking about surveillance generally, but people are going to fit that the way they want to fit it," Conway said.