Is President Trump withholding evidence or just a Magic 8 Ball?

Is the President withholding evidence?

Four days ago, President Trump famously tweeted he’d “just found out” that President Obama tapped the wires in Trump Tower just before the election. Kellyanne Conway was asked about it on Fox.

“Let me answer that globally,” Conway said. “He’s the president of the United States; he has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not.”

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And ever since then, reporters have repeatedly asked for something — anything — about that evidence.

But the answer from the White House: That’s Congress’s job to investigate.

“I think the smartest way to address the situation is ask the House and Senate intelligence committees who are already in the process of looking into this,” Press Secretary Sean Spicer said.

This is the first time I can remember a White House Press Secretary saying Congress should fact-check his boss. At taxpayer expense. Which is crazy considering the Washington Post would gladly do it for free.

And a reporter asked what I thought was an excellent question: “Why would the president want Congress to investigate for information he already has?”

Yes. Why would he? Unless he doesn’t really have it. And, in fact, when reporters asked Devin Nunes, the Republican head of the House Intelligence Committee, about this, here’s what he said:

“The president is a neophyte to politics and I think a lot of the things that he says, you guys sometimes take literally.”

OK. I guess we can stop doing that.

I would just observe that, at some point, the day may come when it will be important to actually believe something the president says! As Conway mentioned: ” … he has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not.”

Yes. But the Magic 8 Ball doesn’t count.

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