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    Why Trump Can’t Let Go of His Wiretapping Claim

    Why can’t the White House just admit that it doesn’t have any evidence for the allegation that Obama surveilled him?
    by David A. Graham Mar 17, 2017 6 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    As the noted philosopher Idina Menzel has elucidated, it’s sometimes best to simply let things go. Yet despite the cold weather in Washington this week, the White House has failed to take the lessons of Frozen to heart.

    Take the debate—raging, inexplicably, for nearly two weeks now—around President Trump’s claim, put forth in a series of tweets, that former President Barack Obama tapped his wires at Trump Tower. On Thursday, two senators looking into the allegation said they had seen no evidence for it, even as Trump’s chief spokesman assured reporters that he stands by the accusation.

    Or stands by some version of it. Here are the original tweets, for reference:

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