President Trump on Saturday morning alleged that his predecessor Barack Obama had “wired tapped” the Trump Tower before Election Day, tweeting the accusation without however providing evidence so far.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” he wrote.
“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!” he added in subsequent tweets. “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!”
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Trump compared Obama’s alleged activity to Nixon’s bugging of the Watergate hotel. “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
It was not immediately clear what evidence or report Trump was referencing. On Friday night, Breitbart News reported on conservative radio host Mark Levin’s claim that Obama executed a “silent coup” of Trump via “police state” tactics.
Since Trump has a tendency to tweet about things he has just seen on TV or read in the press, and since there has been no definitive report on that topic, Trump may be referencing an internal report. And since the allegations in his tweets are material, and will surely provoke a response by Barack Obama (at least his twitter account), this may escalate significantly.
Also on Saturday, prior to the wiretapping tweet, Trump had also linked Obama to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s meetings last year with Russia’s U.S. ambassador.
“The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs,” he tweeted.
Trump on Saturday also blasted Obama for meeting with Kislyak 22 times while president, as the Daily Caller reported first on Friday, tweeting: “Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.”
The Trump administration has sought to push back on accusations of being cozy with Moscow, by pointing out instances of Democrats meeting with Kislyak. Critics have responded that the issue isn’t that Sessions met with the ambassador, but that he falsely told Congress he hadn’t while under oath. So far, according to some media outlets, Trump has failed to “fend off” the Russia questions, which continue to reemerge virtually every night in some new front page story on the WaPo, NYT, in a recurring pattern as described in the following blog post.
This has got to be the most interesting political season of my lifetime.
And it hasn’t even gotten off to a real start yet.
The entire Russian thing is a canard. Trump should simply say that, of course they met with the Russians…….and the British, the French, the Mexicans, etc. There is no reason they should not have met with them and many why they should have. Don’t know about Obama tapping his telephones but if he did Trump should have the mulatto bastard dragged out of his house in his pajamas and body cavity searched.
At the minimum, a highly publicized criminal investigation should be initiated.
If the allegation is founded in truth, that would probably put a big damper on Obama and his team for a while.
But criminal allegations made and not acted on, true or not, weaken the accusers position in the eyes of the public.
With the video up onto Youtube, the download will crash the site in less than about an hour. I simply hope that it shows him begging for lubrication.
“Critics have responded that the issue isn’t that Sessions met with the ambassador…”
Over 15 million Google hits and multiple headlines across the entire MSM would beg to differ…
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&rlz=1C1AVNE_enUS655US655&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sessions+met+with+russian&*
It surprises me just how dependent the media has become on stating something as a fact that can be debunked in a nano-second by anyone with an Internet connection and two fingers and believing this will protect them from their perfidy.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/03/03/occams-razor-did-nsa-admiral-mike-rogers-warn-trump-on-november-17th-2016/
Obama finally got the OK from the FISA court in October for surveillance of the Trump campaign servers because of some purported nexus between Trump servers and Russian banks (which was promptly explained by computer geeks as a random artifact of internet traffic flows).
After the election, Admiral Mike Rogers (not to be confused with the same-named neocon demon ex-congressman from Michigan) went to Trump Tower, seemingly to tell Trump he was being spied upon – but only after an SCIF https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_Compartmented_Information_Facility was established there.
IMO, Everything Trump and his people say and write anywhere is being monitored by the Deep State, which is working with Dems and the media to oust Trump who threatens their globalism and their wars. Few journalists – Assange, Greenwald, Hersch are trustworthy.
@Iska – +1,000. The only way Trump can gain an advantage is to expose the deep state. He should hold another rally and dump on the Dems and neocons “big time” (as he would say).
This “Russia” mantra is total B.S. It seems the liberal political establishment thinks they can goad the American public back into a 1950’s cold war. It’s a very weak card to play. Sure, Putin isn’t Mary Poppins but he isn’t stirring up shit in MENA countries like the U.S. does.
Yet even Fox News correspondent Katherine Herridge asked Sean Spicer about the “Russian intervention”, when no such linkage has been proven, anywhere!
I can’t find that video at the moment, but CNN bitch Erin Barnett gets slammed here by former Bush attorney general Michael Mulcasey after she suggests Jeff Sessions committed treason. The stupidity of hacks like Barnett is stunning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuyXvapyMfs&t=8m46s
And FWIW this is Trump baiting them- YET AGAIN- and they will still strike at it.
He’s so good at this (misspelling Tapp? Really?) and they are so predictable.
Sad.
Agree with the bait.
Don’t get your misspelling angle. And yes, I spotted it but did not think it was relevant.
Have you never noticed how often Trump is referred to as “ignorant”, “simple-minded”, “uneducated” or any other number of derogatory comments regarding his lack of intelligence or sophistication?
And yet he beat them. At their own game, on their own court with an entire system totally in the bag for their candidate. That’s the kind of miscalculation that leads them to daily underestimate his capabilities. And here he is helping them continue with that line of reasoning that only increases the cognitive dissonance they must feel.
It reminds me of the closing sequence of Napolean Dynamite.
I like it. Go on offense and screw the facts. There can’t be any in this clusterfuck country anymore. Do you really think there exists a traceable link between OBummer and an order to tap Trump? Have you ever seen any actual evidence that Russia hacked the election? Do you imagine they’ll someday find a thank you card from LBJ to JE Hoover thanking him for whacking Jack Kennedy? It’s a plausible denial world. Just watch any mafia movie. The Don whispers in the Consigliere’s ear and someone gets clipped. No notes. No instructions. So Trump should just unload on the black bastard. Accuse him of tapping Trump Tower. Accuse him of sinking the Titanic. Accuse him of being a Sodomite (well you might stumble onto the truth once in a while-don’t matter). Just attack without let up.
You gotta love how Trump hits back. A fighter, NY style, who lets the Chicago style thugs know that he’s not intimidated by them.
He should let the Dems know that if they think that Obama spying on him was ok, then that is de facto go-ahead for him to spy on them. Him insinuating it would drive them insane from paranoia, wondering what personal dirt he might have on them and if and when it might get ‘leaked’ to Fox News.
What might make Obama STFU would be to pull his SS personal security detail. In fact, that might also be the very thing that would make these chin wagging senators STFU, a simple retasking of SS details across the board.
McCain, Graham, Schumer, McConnell, Feinstein, Kaine, Warren, and any others who like to go globetrotting or stage their silly little press events depend heavily on SS protection. Making them go naked might just bring them back to reality: a senate seat isn’t a national office, and senators aren’t diplomats.
If it takes legislation, the GOP has the votes as long as they have the will, but that’s the rub, ain’t it?
~ Trump needs to do a major purge IMO ~ Also needs to secure his communications ~ I won’t be surprised if BO eventually gets arrested ~ He’s not in ‘power’ anymore ~ I really don’t think he understands that ~
Historic levels of popcorn needed.
These obstructionistic DemocRATs repeat their lie often enough and who knows? Some may actually start believing this radical left wing and warmongering neocon inspired propaganda. Personally, I’d be in favor of leaving the immigrants alone, at least until we can get a hold of this pro-war and anti-China and anti-Russia faction from the warmongering military/industrial complex and go after these real criminals who lie, cheat and threaten us all with their grand visions of world domination and reduce that threat by just prosecuting and locking them up. Morally and ethically, this country and the entire world would benefit from the public demise of these pathetic Sociopathic criminals of the highest order all the way to their…”planned irrelevance”.
Brilliant! President Trump will next say that this is the source of the intel on his administration that has been leaking out.
Well played sir. Never tire of winning. Thank you for not letting us down.
What is awesome is Trump is NOT AFRAID to strike back.The Republicans that just resigned over any little Dem accusation stops with The Donald.
If it is true, it is the biggest political scandal in a hundred years. My guess is that they did tap Trump. They had a motive to do it and the means. Legal or not they probably did it.
agreed-
i doubt the reps in congress will have the guts to go after obama but we can hope–
this should not be a right/left issue–it needs to be investigated and if true,somebody needs to go to prison for a long time–