White House Demands Investigation into President Trump’s Wiretapping Allegation

President Donald Trump’s accusation that former President Barack Obama ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign has led two senior United States senators to request the government provide them with evidence. An Obama spokesman also called Trump’s tweets “unequivocally false”.

Last week, it was reported that Sergei Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, had met at Trump Tower in NY in December with Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn.

“On the surface, there are similarities”. But that leaves plenty of room for surveillance on others who happened to be in communication with USA citizens, as well as for direct surveillance of US citizens the White House did not directly order but did know about.

On Tuesday, a report surfaced that while Trump and Obama have not spoken to each other since the inauguration ceremony on January 21, their advisers have been in contact with each other.

Spayd’s conclusion was that the Times was referring to something different, and blamed “several conservative media outlets” as being Trump’s sources.

Although it’s been alleged across the internet that he confirmed it happened, during an interview with Brett Baier, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan repeatedly dodged the direct question about wiretapping and changed the subject to there being no evidence of Trump colluding with the Russians.

Several members of Congress have said that Trump needs to publicly explain the substance behind those allegations before Congress should dig into it.

The letter comes after Graham told reporters earlier this week that the Judiciary subcommittee that he oversees with Whitehouse would dig into Trump’s claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him ahead of the election. So has Clapper. A top Republican in Congress has said he is aware of no evidence to support the claim.

Trump also called Obama a “Bad (or sick) guy!” and compared the alleged tapping of his NY office to the “Watergate”, the scandal in the early 1970s which brought down President Richard Nixon.

His statement continued: “President Donald J. Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016”.

Mr Comey argued that the president’s accusation was false and it needed to be corrected to maintain the reputation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation because it suggests the agency broke the law, insiders told the New York Times. He said there would be no further comment until the investigations are completed, a statement that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi took offence to and likened to autocratic behaviour. While intelligence reports strongly suggest Russian officials sought to influence the election’s outcome, questions remain as to what role Trump and his associates might have played in helping Russians with that effort.

If that whole horror-novelist thing doesn’t work out for Stephen King, there might be a bright new career available for him: Coming up with new insane things for Donald Trump to accuse Barack Obama of.

CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday kicked off his eponymous show “The Lead” with a pointed dig at Donald Trump’s dubious claim that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.