Schumer On Trump: Either Way He Is “In Trouble”

 


Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday raised questions about Donald Trump’s baseless claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.

During an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Schumer said Obama has “flatly denied that he has done this.”

“And either way, Chuck, the president’s in trouble. If he falsely spread this kind of misinformation, that is so wrong,” Schumer said.

“It’s beneath the dignity of the presidency. It is something that really hurts people’s view of government.”

Schumer continued, saying that if this is the case, it shows the president doesn’t know how to “conduct himself.”

“On the other hand, if it’s true, it’s even worse for the president,” Schumer said.

“Because that means that a federal judge, independently elected, has found probable cause that the president, or people on his staff, have probable cause to have broken the law or to have interacted with a foreign agent.”

“So either way, the president makes it worse with these tweets. Now, is he trying to divert things here? Yeah,” Schumer said.

“The president denied this. … I don’t have any doubt that President Obama has been telling the truth.”