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And now, as Trump begins one of the most pivotal weeks yet for his presidency, his staff is facing the fallout from another allegation of close ties to Russian Federation and the president’s unsubstantiated claims that his predecessor ordered him wiretapped during the campaign.

“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any USA citizen”, said Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis.

“For eight years Russian Federation “ran over” President Obama, got stronger and stronger, picked-off Crimea and added missiles”.

Donald Trump’s latest series of tweets, which allege the Obama administration “had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory”, have been widely described as baseless. And he did it even as it pertains to this very drama, including some news reports suggesting that FBI Director James Comey asked the Justice Department over the weekend to counter Trump’s fingering of Obama.

But Wednesday marked a significant day for women domestically and worldwide, following Trump’s order last week proclaiming March 2017 as women’s history month.

The White House did not respond to questions about what prompted the President’s accusations that Mr Obama had tapped his phones. Trump cited no evidence for this claim, which appeared to spring from a Breitbart article that itself provided no evidence.

And after reports surfaced that Comey had asked the Justice Department for a public denial of the wiretapping, Matthew Miller, the department’s former spokesman under Obama, told Business Insider that Comey “would know beyond a shadow of a doubt” whether the wiretapping actually happened.

United States intelligence agencies have concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a campaign to meddle in last November’s presidential election in a bid to tilt it in Trump’s favor.

In December, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it supported the CIA’s conclusion that Russian operatives had tried to swing the November election in Mr. Trump’s favour, although not in collusion with the Trump campaign.

Obama’s allies were more blunt, denying flatly that the former president had ordered a wiretap of Trump’s campaign. The portrait, in the Cross Hall of the White House, was hung during former President George W. Bush’s tenure in 2004.

Spicer’s chief deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said she thinks Trump is “going off of information that he’s seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential”. Both were done by Simmie Knox, the first black artist commissioned to do a presidential portrait.

Trump, who was taking “meetings and phone calls” at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, has not commented publicly on the allegations. The idea that Obama abused his power to undermine Trump has become a popular talking point of the far-right outlets.

Hope Hicks is a spokeswoman for President Trump. “If they’re going to investigate Russian Federation ties, let’s include this as part of it”, Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.