FBI Director Comey Asked the DoJ to Reject Trump’s Wiretap Claims

One reporter asked directly if Trump’s messages on Twitter were inspired by a Breitbart News article by Joel Pollak detailing media citations and questions from talk radio host Mark Levin about the Obama administration’s role in the investigation of Trump’s campaign.

“Look, it’s a very serious allegation”. Both the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have so far failed to comment on the situation.

In a mini-tweetstorm on Saturday, while he was at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump accused Obama of tapping his phones in October, just before the election. Trump’s allegations, for which he offered no evidence, came in the form of Saturday morning tweets.

Earnest told ABC’s This Week that Trump was leveling the allegation to distract from the attention being given to the Russian Federation issue. “Any suggestion otherwise is simply false”, said Lewis. Trump repeatedly has denied having any personal ties to the Kremlin, and his aides have denied or played down contacts with Russian officials.

“I spoke with the president twice yesterday about the wiretap story”.

Taking to Twitter early this morning on the USA east coast, Trump fired a barrage of tweets aimed at the 44th President of the US.

“The president can’t demand that anyone gets wiretapped and the only way that there could be a wiretap of Trump Tower is if judges and lawyers and investigators and the justice department felt that Trump was engaging in some illegal behaviour”. He did not disclose any of the reports on which the White House was basing its claim.

Setting aside Trump’s explosive jumble of historical references, thousands took to social media to discuss Trump’s own Watergate-style controversy, involving potentially inappropriate contacts between the administration and Russian Federation, under the hashtag #Russiagate.

“I don’t think you would ever just blanketly say I’m going to accept any outcome that doesn’t matter what it is”, he said. Let’s have an investigation. Politico reports that, according to sources inside the White House, Trump was angry that Sessions had taken the positive light away from his joint congressional address that took place earlier in the week.

Sessions on Thursday said he would recuse himself from any investigations into Russia’s links to Trump’s team, after massive outrage over the revelations that he met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice during the campaign, then denied doing so during his confirmation hearings.

The White House’s escalation of Trump’s claims were kept at arm’s length by congressional Republicans appearing on Sunday morning news broadcasts.