Clapper Denies Trump Wiretap as White House Demands a Probe

This is ridiculous! President Donald Trump, 70, took to Twitter on Saturday, Mar. 4 and accused the previous president Barack Obama, 55, of wiretapping the phones inside Trump Tower.

Trump provided no evidence to back this claim and the former director of national intelligence as well as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation denied Trump’s wires were tapped. “All that we’re asking is that the double standard be washed away and the congressional committee to do their job”.

President Trump started his Saturday with a series of extraordinary allegations against his predecessor.

The timing of Donald Trump’s latest outburst has led Democrats to accuse him of trying to divert attention from his administration’s difficulties over Russian Federation. His administration has come under pressure from FBI and congressional investigations into contacts between members of his campaign team and Russian officials.

Obama’s spokesman denied the former president ordered any such covert action against Trump.

Earlier, former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes strongly denied Trump’s allegations. James Clapper said no such wiretap activity was carried out against Trump as a candidate or against his campaign.

Jason Johnson, a professor of political science in Baltimore, told Al Jazeera that any investigation was likely to be short.

“And that would have included, according to Donald Trump, wiretapping his phones”. But since “the president put that out there, now the White House will have to answer as to exactly what he was referring to”.

“No, I don’t think he does”, she replied. Let’s have an investigation.

Spicer repeatedly said Trump’s messages stood on their own, and he did not try to dissect them for the media.

The video shows Trump exploding into what sources described as a “ballistic” tirade against senior staff including Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.

One such revelation earlier this week in the Washington Post about a meeting between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak prompted the Republican former USA senator to recuse himself from any investigations into the Trump campaign’s possible Russia ties.

Democrats and some Republicans roundly criticized Trump for making such a wild, unsubstantiated claim.

Donald Trump Jr. meanwhile retweeted a wikileaks story that further supports his father’s surveillance allegations.