Fox News Sidelines Andrew Napolitano After Wiretap Allegation -<br />By JOHN KOBLINMARCH 21, 2017<br />Andrew Napolitano, the senior legal analyst for Fox News, has been temporarily sidelined following his unproved assertion last week<br />that former President Barack Obama had asked for British assistance in spying on Donald J. Trump, a person briefed on the decision said on Monday.<br />Mr. Trump then brought it up again on Friday, saying, “All we did was quote a very talented legal mind.”<br />Fox was then put into the awkward position of denouncing Mr. Napolitano’s allegation, with the daytime<br />anchor Shepard Smith saying on Friday: “Fox News cannot confirm Judge Napolitano’s commentary.<br />Mr. Comey’s hearing touched on Judge Napolitano’s allegation — which both President Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeated —<br />that British intelligence officers wiretapped Mr. Trump at Mr. Obama’s request.
