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President Trump Accuses Obama of Wiretapping Trump Tower

posted by on Sunday March 05 2017, @07:24AM   
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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Original Submission

• Re:When I was a kid (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @07:13PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 05 2017, @07:13PM (#475340)

  What he is hiding is that he's beyond broke. Indeed, I suspect his personal finances are effectively a Ponzi scheme, that is he pays off his loans by taking out other loans, and if any of his creditors knew this for certain his entire lifestyle would collapse. The equivalent idea for ordinary schlubs like me or you would be maxing out credit cards and solving your problem by paying off the balance with your other credit cards in the hopes that nobody notices the overall trend.

  The foreign involvement in all this is pretty simple: The banks in New York figured out that Trump was a terrible lending risk and refused to lend to him (not surprising, given all his bankruptcies). Trump solved that problem by borrowing from foreign banks who hadn't figured him out yet when he took out the loans. The foreign banks, wanting to get their ROI, then would have wanted Trump to win the presidency figuring that in a reasonably corrupt country Trump could figure out a way to pay off his debts using the public treasury. Which means it's quite possible that those banks funded efforts to help him / hurt his opponent without Trump knowing about it, solely because they want their money back.

  Isn't this exactly what people have been saying the US gov has been doing?

  Parent