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President Trump Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower

posted by on Sunday March 05 2017, @07:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the who-stole-the-strawberries? dept.

takyon writes:

President Trump has accused former President Obama of... something:

In a string of tweets posted early Saturday morning, President Trump let loose a barrage of accusations at his predecessor. He alleged that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower before Election Day last year, accusing Obama of "McCarthyism" and being a "bad (or sick) guy."

Trump, who is under significant scrutiny for his administration's contacts with Russia before he took office, offered no evidence to support his claims Saturday morning. Neither the White House nor Obama's office has responded immediately to NPR's requests for comment.

[...] Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

Also at WaPo, NYT, Reuters, Fox News, BBC, and Snopes, which hints that it may be related to this story.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @04:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @04:16PM (#475293)

    Looked quickly at your links and you seem to have missed this one which I found by following the SN link at the end of OP to
        http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10 [slate.com] /was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html
    This is the "Alfa Bank" story.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @04:32PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @04:32PM (#475298)

    I left that one out because its much less solid, as the follow-up by the same reporter indicates. [slate.com]

    I think it is important to note in these days of the media being accused of being misleading, it was the same reporter who gathered together and summarized all the criticisms of his original reporting and that follow-up article was linked at the head of the original article for anyone stumbling across it. That's what journalistic standards in action look like.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 06 2017, @03:24AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 06 2017, @03:24AM (#475474)

      Perhaps a little "less solid", but the author ends by basically standing by his initial story. The trail must be pretty stale by now...