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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski: Sources say Trump’s tweets are like ‘side bodily functions’

by Joe Concha - 03/13/17 9:26 AM ET

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski reported Monday that unnamed sources “high up in the administration” tell her that President Trump’s tweets should be looked at as “side bodily functions.”

The report comes as “Morning Joe,” the MSNBC show Brzezinski co-hosts, has focused heavily on Trump’s March 4 tweet accusing former President Obama of ordering surveillance on Trump Tower during the presidential race. Trump offered no evidence to support his claim.

“I’ve heard from people close, high up in the administration that we should look at these tweets as like side bodily functions,” said Brzezinski, who has repeatedly referred to Trump as a “fake president” in recent weeks. “I swear to God those were the word that were used. I’m not trying to be snarky.”

{mosads}The Trump administration has until Monday to provide evidence to the House Intelligence Committee to support the president’s claim that Obama tapped his phones at Trump Tower in October.

NBC News senior political analyst Mark Halperin noted that Trump hadn’t tweeted at all over the past weekend.

“Everything he says including through Twitter, he can’t erase, he’s got to be responsible for,” said Halperin.

“He did not tweet anything controversial over the weekend,” the former Bloomberg host continued. “I don’t think that was an accident.”

“As Bill Clinton likes to say, if you see a turtle on a fence post, they probably didn’t get there by itself.”

All told, Trump has tweeted more than 260 times since Inauguration Day, or an average of more than five tweets per day.

For context, Obama tweeted from his @POTUS account 352 times total from May 2015, when the account was created, until Trump was sworn in on Jan. 20.

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