Backers: Told you so

Reports that federal authorities wiretapped his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort only bolster the president’s claim that the Obama administration was listening in at Trump Tower, supporters of the commander in chief said Tuesday.

“The overwhelming evidence is that Trump was also under surveillance, as he claimed, overlapping with the time Manafort was being monitored,” longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone told The Daily Caller.

The veteran political consultant also fumed on Twitter in all capital letters: “THE FEDS WERE EAVESDROPPING ON MY TELEPHONE CALLS WITH MANAFORT DURING THE INAUGURATION AND TRANSITION.”

Judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano told “Fox & Friends” that CNN’s report was “absolutely consistent” with Trump’s surveillance allegations against former President Barack Obama.

The CNN report noted that Manafort wasn’t under sur- veillance at the time of the June 9, 2016, meeting he attended with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and several Russians.

So critics like Media Matters for America said, “This is at least the fifth time in six months right-wing media has attempted to validate Trump’s lie.”

Meanwhile, CNN reported Tuesday that the raid on Manfort’s Virginia home took place as he and his wife were sleeping. The agents busted into the Manaforts’ bedroom with their weapons drawn and even frisked his wife, Kathleen Manafort.

The network also reported that special counsel Robert Mueller was checking as far back as 2006 in his investigation into Manafort, which includes possible financial crimes.

In addition, The Wall Street Journal reported that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who drew the ire of President Trump by appointing Mueller, was also interviewed by Mueller’s team about Trump’s firing of thenFBI Director James Comey.