US President Barack Trump will not repeat claims that Britain’s spy agency helped former President Barack Obama wiretap Trump Tower, reports say.
Earlier this month, Trump accused his predecessor of intercepting his communications at his offices in Trump Tower in New York City just before the November presidential election.
On Thursday, the White House accused Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency of tapping Trump Tower for Obama during the election campaign.
According to reports on Friday, Britain has been assured the Trump administration will not discuss the issue again, and that it has also apologized to British authorities.
Meanwhile, the British intelligence agency called the claims “utterly ridiculous” that it spied on Trump.
“Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct ‘wire tapping’ against the then President Elect are nonsense. They … should be ignored,” the agency said in a rare…