White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday she doesn\u2019t think President Trump accepts FBI Director James B. Comey\u2019s reported denial of Mr. Trump\u2019s charge that former President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on phones in Trump Tower during last year\u2019s campaign.<\/b>
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday she doesn\u2019t think President Trump accepts FBI Director James B. Comey\u2019s reported denial of Mr. Trump \u2019s charge that former President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps on phones in Trump Tower during last year\u2019s campaign.
\u201cYou know, I don\u2019t think he does,\u201d Ms. Huckabee Sanders said on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d
\u201cI think he firmly believes that this is a storyline that has been reported pretty widely by quite a few outlets,\u201d she said, saying wiretapping has been discussed in The New York Times, the BBC and Fox News.
Mr. Comey asked the Justice Department on Saturday to publicly reject Mr. Trump \u2019s claims that Mr. Obama ordered wiretaps on phones in Trump Tower during last year\u2019s campaign, The New York Times reported.
Representatives for the FBI and the DOJ declined to comment to the paper.
Ms. Huckabee Sanders said she didn\u2019t know if Mr. Trump has talked with Mr. Comey since he made the accusation and asked if the claims were true.
\u201cI don\u2019t know that he has gotten a firm denial from the FBI,\u201d she said.
\u201cThe president wants the truth to come out to the American people, and he is asking that it be done through the House intelligence committee and that be the process that we go through,\u201d Ms. Huckabee Sanders said.
A spokesman for the former president has denied the charge, saying neither he nor his White House ever ordered surveillance on any U. S. citizen.
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