Donald Trump accuses Obama of ‘wire-tapping’ his office before election

See, also WaPo: Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of “Nixon/Watergate” plot to wiretap Trump Tower. “Nothing found”, Trump wrote on Twitter Saturday, adding: “This is McCarthyism!”.

He went on to say that a court had earlier denied a wiretap request.

In the midst of these defenses, the sitting president accused the former president of ” “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election”.

Donald Trump has accused the Obama administration of intercepting communications at his offices in New York City before the presidential election in November a year ago.

Former Obama deputy National security advisor, Ben Rhodes, tweeted in response that Presidents can’t order wiretapping.

The tweets come as the Trump administration once again faces questions over the presidential campaign team’s contacts with Russian Federation prior to Trump’s inauguration.

Then again, if Trump’s outburst was instead the result of learning something new from US law enforcement officials, he would seem to be confirming that a judge had agreed there was probable cause to issue a warrant to investigate the Trump campaign’s links to Russian Federation.

Trump and Obama frequently traded barbs on the campaign trail, and the Republican real estate magnate was a driving force behind the so-called “birther” movement that questioned whether Obama was born on U.S. soil and eligible to be president.

Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions did not disclose meeting Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak when asked about contacts with Russians during his Senate confirmation hearing. Sessions’ recusal came after it was revealed that he met twice with the Russian ambassador while serving as a surrogate for the campaign past year.

As for the claims about Sessions and the Russian Ambassador, there’s theoretically nothing wrong with politicians meeting with foreign ambassadors.

In reality, Trump is most likely summarizing a Breitbart article that is itself a summary of a highly speculative right-wing talk radio monologue that is based on facts that were originally reported long ago.

As NBC News reports, Sessions has agreed to submit amended testimony and respond to senators’ questions over his contacts with Russia’s ambassador. Amid the flurry of charges on a busy Saturday morning from his estate in Florida, Trump also found time to diss the actor-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, who succeeded him in the reality show The Apprentice. Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned in February after revelations that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russian Federation with Kislyak before Trump took office. White House aides thought that today, with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, would be a “quiet, down day”.