By midnight tonight, President Trump's administration is supposed to provide Congress evidence that former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign. It's a claim that Trump's aides struggled to back up. And nine days later, they're still struggling. Which suggests what many nonpartisan security experts have said: There is no concrete evidence. “I'm not in the job of having evidence,” Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway literally said on CNN Monday. Conway said that as she defended an equally odd comment she made in an interview Sunday with the Bergen Record columnist Mike Kelly about potential wiretapping: KELLY: Let me ask you about one of the things that seems to be dogging, at least this past week, is the wiretaps — the allegation that Trump Tower was wiretapped. What can you say about that? Do you know whether Trump Tower was wiretapped? CONWAY: What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately. KELLY: Do you believe that was … CONWAY: There was an article that week that talked about how you can surveil people through their phones, through their — certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. We know that is just a fact of modern life. Kellyanne Conway (The Bergen Record) Later Monday afternoon, White House press secretary Sean Spicer made headlines for his creative effort to walk back Trump's claim: “The president was very clear in his tweet that it was, you know, 'wire tapping' — that spans a whole host of surveillance types of options.” “Ah, the old air-quotes defense,” writes The Fix's Callum Borchers. “According to Spicer's new argument, Trump didn't necessarily mean wiretapping when he said 'wire tapping' — and reporters should know this because he put the phrase in quotation marks.” Apparently we missed the note on that. But what's unmistakable is the sense that no concrete evidence will be coming on alleged Obama wiretapping of Team Trump. That likely means no congressional investigation, as Trump wanted. A similar fate befell Trump's claims that millions of people voted illegally in the presidential election (remember that?). The unanswered question to Trump's accusations falling flat in the face of evidence is: What does this mean politically for him? TBD ... Trump, the king of flip flops (The Washington Post) | 