Trump Deflects Blame for U.K.'s Anger Over Spying Allegation
- British officials registered complaints after Spicer briefing
- U.K. calls Fox News report Spicer cited ‘utterly ridiculous’
Trump Says He 'Very Seldom' Regrets Any Tweets
President Donald Trump deflected blame for having angered the U.K. government by repeating an allegation he was spied on by British intelligence, and declined to back away from the unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor, Barack Obama, put him under surveillance.
“We said nothing. All we did was quote a certain, very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it,” Trump said on Friday, referring to remarks by Fox News commentator Andrew Napolitano that Obama had bypassed U.S. law by asking the U.K. to gather intelligence on the Republican during the presidential campaign. “You shouldn’t be talking to me you, should be talking to Fox.”