Trump adviser Conway warns of spy microwaves ‘that turn into cameras’, then she gets roasted on social media

Last week, the White House tried to avoid giving further life to US President Donald Trump’s stunning and unsupported allegation that former president Barack Obama ordered surveillance of him last year.

And when WikiLeaks posted new documents claiming to expose surveillance tactics available to the intelligence community, the White House steadfastly refused to confirm their validity, in keeping with long-standing US policy about keeping spying operations secret.

In the space of a few seconds, White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway appeared to undo both administration objectives.

In an interview in her New Jersey home with the local newspaper, The Record, Conway was asked about whether Trump’s wiretap claim distracted from White House efforts to sell his agenda.

“There are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately,” she said. “There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways. And microwaves that turn into cameras, et cetera. So we know that that is just a fact of modern life.”

The comments about spy ovens were roundly mocked on social media.