Trump aide: Obama spied on us with a microwave!

BARACK Obama could have spied on Donald Trump using a microwave oven, it was outlandishly claimed yesterday.

The idea was ridiculed on social media after a Trump aide suggested that covert surveillance could be done ‘with microwaves that turn into cameras’.

It comes after the president’s incendiary claim that Mr Obama wire-tapped his offices in Trump Tower.

Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to Mr Trump, told a newspaper there were many ways to bug targets. ‘What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately,’ she said. Mrs Conway, who notoriously coined the term ‘ alternative facts’ to describe a White House inaccuracy, later tried to retreat from her claim amid a storm of mockery on social media.

She told a TV show she wasn’t specifically talking about Trump Tower but surveillance ‘generally’.

She later said: ‘I’m not Inspector Gadget. I don’t believe people are using their microwaves to spy on the Trump campaign. How- ever, I’m not in the job of having evidence – that’s what investigations are for.’

Mrs Conway, who was Mr Trump’s campaign manager, has complained she hasn’t been allowed to brush off her faux-pas over ‘alternative facts’.

She used the term to defend a White House colleague who gave a misleading estimate of the crowd at the Trump inauguration. She has since cited a terror attack that didn’t exist and broken Washington rules by encouraging TV viewers to buy products of Ivanka Trump’s companies.

Mr Trump, who has called 50-year-old Mrs Conway his ‘baby’, rushed to her defence on Twitter yesterday. He said: ‘It is amazing how rude much of the media is to my very hard working representatives. Be nice, you will do much better!’

Donald Trump is to host Chinese premier Xi Jinping at his luxurious Florida resort next month in a move that appears designed to soothe tensions between US and China.

A two-day summit at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach is scheduled from April 6, the White House said. Mr Trump has recently claimed China’s trade policy is ‘raping’ the US.