WASHINGTON, March 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump is defending his accusation that his predecessor Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped prior to the 2016 election Day, broadening the definition of the word wiretap.
"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump said in an interview with Fox News set to air Wednesday night.
"I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks," he was quoted by a theHill news daily report as saying.
It's the first time for the newly inaugurated U.S. president to voice out again on the issue following his tweet storms making the allegation with no offer of evidence earlier this month.
Earlier on Wednesday, U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a Republican, said that his panel has not received any evidence that Trump was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
"As I told you last week about the issue with the president talking about tapping Trump Tower, that evidence still remains the same, that we don't have any evidence that that took place," Nunes told reporters.
"In fact, I don't believe just in the last week of time, the people we've talked to, I don't think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower," he said.
"Are you going to take the tweets literally? And if you are, then clearly the president was wrong," Nunes added.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday said Trump's tweets weren't meant to be taken literally since the president could have been referring to a broad range of surveillance activity.
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