White House Press secretary Sean Spicer walks out of the West Wing of the White House. Photo / AP
US President Donald Trump still has confidence in James Comey the White House says, despite the FBI Director challenging Trump's claim that the Obama Administration wiretapped him during the 2016 election campaign.
Federal Bureau of Investigation head Comey has asked the Justice Department to reject Trump's accusation that former President
Barack Obama ordered a wiretap at Trump Tower in New York because the claim was false and must be corrected, a federal law enforcement official said.
Asked whether Trump still had confidence in Comey, White House Spokesman Sean Spicer said: "There's nothing that I have been told by him that would lead me to believe that anything is different than what it was prior".
He was "almost 100 per cent certain" Trump had not spoken to Comey since the Republican President made the allegation on Twitter on Sunday. "I'm not aware that that occurred," Spicer told reporters.
Trump gave no evidence for his claim, the latest twist in a controversy over ties between Trump associates and Russia that has dogged the early days of his presidency.
