Less than a week after the tweet was posted, President Trump was interviewed on Fox News where he explained what he meant by his tweet. He explained, “Wiretap covers a lot of things.” He went on to speak of expectations of “some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.”
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA.) are constituents of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and they are in charge of investigating the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday, March 16, they negated White House claims about Trump Tower surveillance under the Obama Administration. Said the former:
“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016.
The two senators made a joint statement in which this was said on behalf of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is a committee with security clearances that permit them access to information that can be crosschecked between several intelligence bureaus and law enforcement agencies.