Obama Spokesperson Responds to Trump’s Wire-Tapping Claim

Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for Obama, branded the claims “simply false”. “Any suggestion otherwise is simply false”.

Josh Earnest, who was Mr Obama’s press secretary, said presidents do not have authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of American citizens.

President Donald Trump has accused former President Barack Obama of tapping his phones at Trump Tower before the election.

It was unclear what reports Spicer was referring to, and what prompted Trump to make the allegation.

The request came a day after President Donald Trump alleged, without supporting evidence, that then-President Obama ordered a wiretap of the phones at Trump’s campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in NY. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! Sessions announced last week he would recuse himself from any investigation into Trump campaign ties to Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Another White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, would not say on ABC’s “This Week” program on Sunday whether the contentions about the wire tapping – which an Obama spokesman has denied – were true. Turned down by court earlier.

Clapper added that if any wiretaps had occurred, he would “certainly hope” that he would be aware of it, NBC News noted.

Ben Rhodes, Obama’s former deputy national security adviser, also denied Trump’s claims on Sunday.

On Saturday, Trump claimed on Twitter, “Terrible!”

On Saturday, Trump accused his predecessor of intercepting his communications at his offices in Trump Tower in New York City before the presidential election a year ago.

Trump’s “wire-tapping” accusation came after days of media reports about his campaign team’s contacts with Russian Ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak.

Trump tweeted that the former president had been spying on him in October, a month before his election victory, reported Daily Mail.