No 10 says US administration has offered assurances after British intelligence officials dismissed claims as ‘utterly ridiculous’
The White House has scrambled to limit the damage to transatlantic relations caused when White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, repeated an unsubstantiated claim that British intelligence had spied on Donald Trump.
But there was no apology from the Trump administration, which said only that the circumstances in which Spicer made the allegation at a White House briefing, had been “explained” to British officials.
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
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