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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @06:45PM (#475334)

    The Donald may prove to be a total fuckup, but you could at least let him prove it.

    He seems to be continuing Bush's and Obama's unconstitutional mass surveillance of the populace. That's strike one and you're out. But he also doesn't show any signs of scrapping the TSA, doesn't want to shut down Gitmo, has supported asset forfeiture, has supported the drug war, and has appointed numerous corrupt people to positions of power. Trump has already proven himself to be garbage, just like Obama and Bush did, and he did so almost immediately. Doing the occasional good thing (scrapping the TPP) does not make up for continuing the previous policies of violating our fundamental liberties. To me, if a politician violates the Constitution, that is treason; they are nearly all traitors.

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