Trump has not spoken to Federal Bureau of Investigation director about wiretapping claims, Spicer says

His reference to “the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October” is definitive and, if false, orders of magnitude more scurrilous and defamatory than the lies about Obama’s place of birth upon which Trump built his political career. “It’s a tool of an authoritarian”.

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 provided no evidence to support his incendiary claim. And on Wednesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer raised more questions about the president’s claim: “There is no reason to believe that he is the target of any investigation”. He didn’t specify any such reports.

Sanders, a deputy press secretary, was the highest ranking White House official to appear on Sunday political talk shows.

Whatever Obama’s precise degree of culpability and Trump’s accuracy in leveling allegations, one might think Obama would be legally vulnerable enough so that he wouldn’t want to make waves.

NBC News reported that Obama had an even lighter reaction – he simply rolled his eyes. The White House also did not respond to a request to elaborate on Trump’s accusations.

Additionally, an Obama spokesman has categorically denied that the Obama White House ordered any wiretapping.

He was “almost 100 percent certain” Trump had not spoken to Comey since the Republican president made the allegation on Twitter on Saturday. Often, they lean on sympathetic media to help with that task. The allegation has been denied by Obama’s spokesperson.

When adversity strikes – as it did with new allegations concerning Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was forced to recuse himself from any campaign-related investigation – he becomes unhinged and paranoid.

“This isn’t a conspiracy”, Levin said.

In addition to those two news organizations, he also referenced a November 7 post on Heat Street, a right-leaning opinion site owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.

Trump’s aides asked Congress on Sunday to look into whether the Obama administration abused its investigative powers during the 2016 election. But it’s all-too-obvious why Trump would be suspicious.

“I’m very anxious. I’m very anxious that our President is suggesting that the former President’s done something illegally”, Graham said. They are republished from a number of sources, and are not produced by MintPress News.

Did the person know it was false or was he or she reckless about whether it was false?

They’re trying to put words in my report that are just not there. It is significant that Trump is determined to squelch or undermine investigations into his campaign’s conduct, and that his surrogates are routinely caught lying about their conduct, while those on the receiving end of his deranged rants stand in the way of nothing, seeking only to have their names cleared. Democrats said the White House was trying to shift focus away from ongoing investigations into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russian Federation.

This does not necessarily mean the FBI or anyone else was “wiretapping” Trump Towers, but we have yet to find out the extent of its investigation and whether, for example, the FBI discovered additional ties between Trump associates and Kremlin allies.

Get free real-time news alerts from the White House Patch. The story describes Obama’s supposed tactics as “police state” operations, and Trump described them as “McCarthyism”. “The question is, is it surveillance, wiretapping or whatever?”