‘A person who’s not nuts’ wouldn’t do this: CNN panel rips Jeffrey Lord’s defense of Trump wiretap tweets

A CNN panel discussing President Donald Trump's weekend tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of personally ordering then-candidate Trump's offices to be wiretapped grew contentious when CNN regular Jeffrey Lord insisted Obama was responsible.

Despite the lack of evidence it ever happened.

Citing a New York Times article that vaguely alluded to some Trump staff members being under investigation, Lord insisted that Trump knows something others don't and Trump should be taken "seriously" if not "literally."

"The president, I assume reads the New York Times, I assume he reads the Washington Post," Lord insisted. "He has to see all these stories that his administration is leaking like a sieve. The former president was in charge of his administration. That's the way it works."

Democratic strategist Jonathan Tasini attempted to bring Lord back to Earth.

"Jeff, we're forgetting something. A normal person, somebody who is not, I think a pathological liar and nuts would call the FBI, call somebody on his staff --" Tasini said before Lord tried to cut him off.

"Hold on, let me finish," Tasini shot back. "He would call up his staff and say, 'You know, I have some serious concerns, I think there was a wire." They would go through the process. They wouldn't attack the former president on Twitter without going through some process. This is a very serious accusation. "

According to Lord, Obama would still be personally responsible if there were phone taps because " he's in charge of his administration."

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