Obama spokesperson says Trump’s claim on Trump Tower wiretap is false

“I can deny it”, Clapper said, asserting that an order related to Trump or Trump Tower does not exist to his “knowledge”. It would have been taken to a judge by investigators, but investigators never did that, the former official said.

Mukasey explained that the Justice Department would sanction such scrutiny if it believed – or had reason to suspect – that agents of a foreign government were operating within the Trump campaign.

He then said Kislyak visited Obama’s White House 22 times, four times in the past year. The FBI is investigating those contacts, as is Congress.

“If this happened”, Sanders said, “this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal”.

Soon after he added: “Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election?” Eastern and cited no evidence, Trump compared the alleged wiretapping to “McCarthyism” and “Nixon/Watergate”.

At least one former Trump advisor has come forward to say that he also met with the Russian ambassador.

Trump and the White House Press team have been struggling in their attempt to move attention away from the story, which is being covered by most of the mainstream media.

“Terrible!” the President tweeted over the weekend.

In a series of morning tweets on Saturday, Mr. Trump suggested Obama was behind a politically motivated plot to upend his campaign.

Radio talk show host Mark Levin joined “Fox & Friends Weekend” Sunday to discuss President Donald Trump’s allegations of wiretapping of Trump Tower by the Obama administration. “Bad (or sick) guy!”.

A spokesman for Obama denied that the former president, or any other White House official, had ordered surveillance on a private USA citizen.

Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis called the claim “simply false” and said Obama never ordered surveillance on any American citizen.

Trump has been trailed for months by questions about his campaign’s ties to Russian Federation.

For months, outlets such as the Guardian, the BBC, the New York Times and the Washington Post have reported on requests for such a warrant and a larger investigation into possible links between Russian officials and Trump associates. It weakens the United States and it makes us vulnerable to our enemies.