Hilarious memes highlight the absolute absurdity of Donald Trump’s wiretapping paranoia

On Monday, the White House labored to explain President Trump’s tweets on Saturday morning accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump’s Trump Tower phones during the presidential election. By smearing Mr Obama, the president may have hoped not only to deflect attention from talk of Russian Federation, but also to arm his supporters with a made-up counter-scandal to set against it.

“You said the president believes that there was voter fraud”, Spicer was asked at one news briefing. Trump spoke as recently as last month about how much he likes Obama and how much they get along, despite their differences. One person said, “I’m just so struck by how precise Trump’s technique is.’ Another-a musical theater composer, actually-said that Trump created “hummable lyrics, ‘ while Clinton talked a lot, and everything she was was true and factual, but there was no ‘hook” to it”.

The allegation was raised by conservative radio host Mark Levin on Thursday night and repeated Friday morning by Breitbart News, formerly run by Trump adviser Steve Bannon.

Democrats, meanwhile, are demanding that the DoJ name a special prosecutor to investigate alleged ties between Trump campaign aides and Russian Federation.

Josh Earnest, who was Obama’s White House press secretary, said presidents do not have authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of American citizens, as Trump has alleged was done to him.

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence at the time of the election, said there no wire-tap activity mounted against Mr Trump or his campaign.

“I’m a New York Giants fan”, he said, drawing laughter from the New England crowd. Alternatively, if it secured a warrant to bug Mr Trump’s phones, that would mean it had sufficient cause to believe Mr Trump or his associates were involved with terrorists or foreign spies to convince a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. In fact, it only made them worry more about the United States, with social media asking if this type of behavior was somehow putting Trump in impeach territory.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Mo., said March 5 on Fox News Sunday that he’s “seen no evidence of the allegations we’ve seen in the media, Chris”. Both actors learned not just what the presidential candidates said but how they said it, imitating the candidates’ behavior and body language in the performances.

In the meantime, Senators Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, who sit on that chamber’s Judiciary Committee, sent a letter on Wednesday to the Federal Bureau of Investigation director and Acting Deputy Attorney General asking for information on any possible wiretapping of President Trump, the Trump campaign or Trump Tower.

And if Trump Tower was under some kind of government eavesdropping during or since the campaign, it wouldn’t be a problem for Obama. His reason for declining to do that was that the report’s sources and allegations couldn’t be corroborated or even properly investigated. “And I think the American people have a right to know if this happened, because if it did, again, this is the largest abuse of power that, I think, we have ever seen”.

Trump is said to be frustrated by his senior advisers’ inability to tamp down the Russian Federation issue.