Did Louie Gohmert Just Admit Trump Tower Was Wiretapped?
On July 26th, the House Judiciary Committee was debating an amendment to House Resolution 466, which would have called for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate the Obama administration’s role in covering up or obstructing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. (The Amendment was House Resolution 477.)
Towards the end of the debate, Texas Representative Louie Gohmert appeared to admit that President Trump’s campaign headquarters, in Trump Tower, was wiretapped.
Rep. Gohmert seemed to suggest that the now infamous meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in the summer of 2016 at Trump Tower “was a big help to the Obama administration finally getting a warrant from the FISA court — after they turned it down the first time — now they get a warrant to bug the Trump Tower.”
Rep. Gohmert’s comments come after former FBI Director Comey denied the existence of such a wiretap. It was later revealed, though, that at least one of Trump’s advisers, a low-level unpaid volunteer named Carter Page, was the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant, which allowed the government to monitor and intercept his communications.

