President Trump Answers Wiretapping Question With Chancellor Merkel

  • 7 years ago
In a Joint Press Conference with President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel, Presient Trump gets a question about wiretapping and the British Government and he responds and gets some laughs.

Here is a transcript of the German reporters question and the response by President Trump:

And Mr. President, my question addressed to you, if I may -- rejected White House claims, is that the alleged wiretapping on you, on the Trump Tower, on Trump organization, or on members of your campaign was -- that British intelligence was either responsible for it or involved in it? After these claims are rejected, what is your take on that? Are there other suspects, or do you think it was a mistake to blame British intelligence for this.

And by the way, my second question, are there, from time to time, tweets that you regret in hindsight --

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Very seldom.

Q Very seldom. So you never would have wished not to have --

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Very seldom. Probably wouldn’t be here right now -- but very seldom. We have a tremendous group of people that listen, and I can get around the media when the media doesn’t tell the truth, so I like that.

As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps. (Laughter.) And just to finish your question, we said nothing. All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it. That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox. And so you shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox, okay?

Q Thank you.

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