White House spokesman Sean Spicer on Friday flatly denied that the US apologized to the British government after he repeated an uncorroborated report that its intelligence agency had wiretapped President Trump with the blessing of then-President Barack Obama.
“I don’t think we regret anything. We literally listed a litany of media reports that are in the public domain,” Spicer told reporters at the White House.
Reports from the UK press indicated that Spicer apologized to British officials at a St. Patrick’s Day party Thursday night in Washington.
Spicer on Thursday cited remarks by Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox News that Obama used the British spy agency known as GCHQ to wiretap Trump.
A spokesman for the agency responded to the claim: “Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wiretapping’ against the then president-elect are nonsense. They are utterly ridiculous and should be ignored.”
Trump told visiting German reporters to talk to Fox News about Spicer’s comments.
Shepard Smith responded Friday that the network “knows of no evidence of any kind that the now-president of the United States was surveilled at any time in any way.”