Under fire over Russia investigation, White House officials choose to change the subject

The following article by Brian Bennett was posted on the L.A. Times website March 21, 2017:

President Trump walks to a meeting with House Republicans to encourage a deal on the American Health Care Act. (Shawn Thew / European Pressphoto Agency)

After the heads of the FBI and the National Security Agency denied President Trump’s claim that then-President Obama had wiretapped him, Trump’s Twitter account provided the best clue to how the White House would respond: Tuesday morning, it was silent on the subject.

Trump had started the day Monday with a tweet storm defending himself against allegations that his campaign had cooperated with Russian efforts to affect the 2016 election. He’s spent days quadrupling down on his unsubstantiated insistence that Obama had surveilled Trump Tower in New York. Continue reading “Under fire over Russia investigation, White House officials choose to change the subject”