--- title: Kellyanne Conway Doesn't Have Evidence of Trump Wiretap description: Kellyanne Conway said she has no evidence to back up unsubstantiated claims Trump made that his predecessor wiretapped him canonical: https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-13T13:16:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:48:18.075Z article:section: Politics og:title: Conway Says 'I Don't Have Any Evidence' of Trump's Wiretap Claim og:description: President Trump's claims were widely disputed, including by top intelligence figures og:url: https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadcbec84231e7ce9/6988be1a97cdff70d16afcce/kellyanne-conway-22.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Kellyanne Conway og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Conway Says 'I Don't Have Any Evidence' of Trump's Wiretap Claim twitter:description: President Trump's claims were widely disputed, including by top intelligence figures twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadcbec84231e7ce9/6988be1a97cdff70d16afcce/kellyanne-conway-22.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kellyanne Conway Says 'I Don't Have Any Evidence' of Trump's Wiretap Claim > Sponsored content. 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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is interviewed by Howard Kurtz during a taping of his "MediaBuzz" program on the Fox News Channel in New York City, on March 10, 2017.Richard Drew—AP by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 13, 2017 1:16 PM UTC [Kellyanne Conway](http://time.com/4687446/kellyanne-conway-ivanka-trump-white-house/), counselor to President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4696428/donald-trump-war-state-government/), said Monday that she has no evidence to back up unsubstantiated claims Trump made that his predecessor [wiretapped](http://time.com/4696515/donald-trump-barack-obama-wiretap-mike-pence/) him during the 2016 presidential campaign. “The answer is I don’t have any evidence and I’m very happy that the House intelligence committee are investigating,” Conway said in an interview on [_Good Morning America_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-counselor-kellyanne-conway-evidence-trump-wiretapping-claim/story?id=46090208)_._ Trump recently sent a series of tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of [wiretapping Trump Tower](http://time.com/4691679/donald-trump-barack-obama-wiretap-whitehouse/) during the election. He called Obama a “bad (or sick) guy” and equated the alleged taps to the Watergate scandal. The White House has not yet provided any evidence to back up the President’s claims, which were widely disputed, including by top intelligence figures. Obama has also [denied it.](http://time.com/4691226/barack-obama-president-donald-trump-wiretap/) Conway’s statements on Monday followed an interview with [the Bergen _Record_](http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/columnists/mike-kelly/2017/03/12/mike-kelly-conway-suggests-even-wider-surveillance-trump-campaign/99060910/), during which she said there are “many ways to surveil each other,” which many interpreted as a suggestion that the Trump Administration believed the Obama taps were more widespread than the President suggested. Conway’s mention of “microwaves that turn into cameras” alluded to recent documents [released by WikiLeaks](http://time.com/4696103/cia-wikileaks-hack-deeply-troubled/) about CIA surveillance and hacking techniques. On [_Good Morning America_](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-counselor-kellyanne-conway-evidence-trump-wiretapping-claim/story?id=46090208), Conway said she was speaking about surveillance generally in that interview, not making additional claims about Obama. “All I said to the Bergen Record is — I was making a comment about the articles from this past week where it is revealed that one can be surveiled in any number of techniques,” Conway said. “I wasn’t talking about anything specific. … I wasn’t making a suggestion about Trump Tower.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/"},"headline":"Kellyanne Conway Says 'I Don't Have Any Evidence' of Trump's Wiretap Claim","datePublished":"2017-03-13T13:16:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:48:18.075Z","description":"President Trump's claims were widely disputed, including by top intelligence figures","url":"https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","kellyanne conway","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadcbec84231e7ce9/6988be1a97cdff70d16afcce/kellyanne-conway-22.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltadcbec84231e7ce9/6988be1a97cdff70d16afcce/kellyanne-conway-22.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Kellyanne Conway","caption":"Kellyanne Conway","creditText":"Richard Drew—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4699365/kellyanne-conway-donald-trump-obama-wiretap/","name":"Kellyanne Conway Says 'I Don't Have Any Evidence' of Trump's Wiretap Claim"}}]}] ```