Senators ask Federal Bureau of Investigation for evidence of Trump wiretap claim

James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has reportedly asked the U.S. justice department to publicly reject claims made by Donald Trump that Barack Obama ordered his phones to be tapped during the 2016 election campaign.

Top former Obama administration officials have refuted Trump’s claims. “But we need to continue this investigation into the Russian connection”, he said.

News mogul Christopher Ruddy revealed Sunday that President Donald Trump is furious over how his staggering claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped his office is playing out.

On Tuesday, Obama’s aides told the Wall Street Journal that the 44th President of the US was “furious” about Trump’s allegation without any evidence.

Yet asked at Tuesday’s briefing if Trump has spoken to Comey, Spicer said: “The president has not”.

President Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 15, 2017. “If Trump or any other political campaign, or anybody associated with Trump, was under some type of investigation, that clearly should have risen to the Gang of Eight level”. “The concern that the president has and why he asks the Senate and House intelligence committees to look into this is to get to the bottom of what may or may not have occurred during the 2016 election”.

Josh Earnest, who was Obama’s White House press secretary, said presidents do not have authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of U.S. citizens.

“He’s the president of the United States”, she said. “He has information and intelligence that the rest of us do not”.

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. “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” he added in another tweet.

No reporting has ever revealed any basis to believe that Obama ordered a wire tap of anyone, much less Trump or his team. Because it means the administration would like someone to find out if there is any truth to what the president claimed.

Gingrich pointed to a National Review column by Andrew McCarthy, and questioned why the White House would change rules in January so “unsubstantiated rumors could be circulated in the intelligence community, knowing they will be leaked“. “It’s that they have the resources and the clearances and the staff … to fully and clearly investigate this”.

“All we’re asking for was a warrant issued”.

“Either they’re lying to me, or there is no information, ” Graham said.