Trump Accuses Obama of Tapping Trump Tower Phones

U.S. President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping his NY office during the election campaign, but has not provided evidence of the charge.

Comparing Obama to former President Richard Nixon during the 1970s Watergate scandal, Trump took his long-running feud with his predecessor to a new level in four separate early-morning tweets to his nearly 26 million followers. The announcement came after President Trump alleged on Twitter over the weekend that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower ahead of the election, a claim for which he provided no evidence. He said a congressional investigation or a special prosecutor could provide definitive answers.

“All we’re asking is the same fair deal that the House Intelligence Committee is given the opportunity to investigate and review this to see if there’s anything there, which we believe there is”. “It would be very healthy to completely clear the air on this subject”.

ABC News has reached out to both the White House and aides to former President Obama for comment but has yet to receive a response.

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. Instead, his spokeswoman suggested he took the meetings as “a senator and a member of the Armed Services Committee”.

“I can deny it”. “I have no basis to say that”.

Those standards are whether the allegedly libelous statement (s) made against the public figure is false and whether the person who made the statement knew it was false or was reckless about whether it was false.

If true, the claims would stir seriously legal and ethical questions regarding the authority and actions of the former president.

“I can deny it”, Mr. Clapper said Sunday, regarding claims that the Obama White House sought or obtained a surveillance warrant issued by the secretive court established under the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act (FISA) to track possible communications between Trump officials and Russian Federation.

“The president’s in trouble if he falsely spread this kind of information”, Schumer said.

Congressional Democrats are seeking details about reports of contacts between the White House and the justice department concerning the FBI’s ongoing review of efforts by the Russian government to unlawfully influence the election.

“If we have a special prosecutor, they will get to the bottom of all of this,”Schumer said on NBC”.