--- 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: 2026-10-07T07:20:17.851Z 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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Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, said Monday that she has no evidence to back up unsubstantiated claims Trump made that his predecessor wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Mar 13, 2017 1:16 PM UTC 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.” ## Transcript I'm not Inspector Gadget, I don't believe people are using the microwave to spy on the Trump campaign. However, I'm not in the job of having evidence, that's what investigations are for. I've said many, many times throughout the week that the president is pleased that the House and Senate Intelligence Committee's Have agreed with him that this should be part of the investigation that already exists about rushing the campaign. An investigation that apparently is going nowhere so far. I mean, every single day, on this network and others, people are screaming about rushing the campaign. And to what avail? I mean where is the evidence that [ UNKNOWN ]. Well the investigations haven't even started. Okay, but you're fine with that, you're fine with that investigation taking its time. But when it comes to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees listening to President Trump, and including this as part of the overall investigation. Somehow that has to be on a rocket docket, that has to have Evidentiary proof on day one that has to have a conclusion before it even starts. 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