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House minority leader Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of using "authoritarian" tactics by claiming -- without any evidence -- that President Barack Obama ordered that he be wiretapped. In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday, Pelosi called Trump the "deflector-in-chief -- anything to change the subject."
The White House on Sunday demanded that Congress, which is already investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, also examine whether former President Barack Obama abused his executive powers in connection with that campaign. The request followed President Donald Trump's claim Saturday that his predecessor had tapped the telephones at Trump Tower.
On March 4, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to accuse former President Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Towers during the 2016 election. A mere 24 hours later, he demanded Congress investigate his claims - with absolutely no evidence to back them.
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election. While citing no evidence to support his explosive allegation, Trump said in a series of five tweets sent Saturday morning that Obama was "wire tapping" his New York offices before the election in a move he compared to McCarthyism.
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US President Donald Trump's claim that he was spied on comes amid a storm over his administration's Russia links. His latest lash-out - a Twitter blitzkrieg early on Saturday, in which he accuses presidential predecessor Barack Obama of a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at the Trump Tower headquarters in New York in the run-up to last year's election - featured a succession of five similarly-worded tweets, belted out between 3.32am and 4.02am.
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The problem is, Trump fires off flares he knows will get his base frothing at the mouth and in the end, it winds up giving cover to the Obama administration. Clouded up, is the possibility the United States government might have monitored the Trump campaign and any contact it had with the Russian government.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from being truthful while under oath. President Donald Trump has recused himself from being a stable, sound-minded, responsible president and quelling suspicions about an improper relationship between his campaign and Russia.
U.S. President Donald Trump accused predecessor Barack Obama on Saturday of wiretapping him during the late stages of the 2016 election campaign, but offered no evidence for an allegation which an Obama spokesman said was "simply false". President-elect Donald Trump, left, and President Barack Obama arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony at the Capitol in Washington yesterday.
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Donald Trump's accusations are astonishing. At the heart of them are claims that in the months before the election he was wire-tapped on the orders of Barack Obama.
Eastern and cited no evidence, Trump compared the alleged wiretapping to " McCarthyism " and "Nixon/Watergate". However, as former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes noted, presidents, sitting or otherwise, don't have the legal authority to do any such thing.
President Donald Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in the run-up to last fall's election, providing no evidence to support his explosive claim and drawing a flat denial from Obama's office. Leveling the extraordinary allegation about his predecessor in a series of four early morning tweets, Trump said Obama had been "wire tapping" his New York offices and suggested he had meddled with the "very sacred election process."
In tweeting accusations that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of his campaign, President Donald Trump potentially made public the existence of Top Secret wiretaps a move that would be a federal crime, if performed by anyone other than the commander-in-chief. Trump's stunning allegation came in an early morning tweetstorm, in which he wrote in part: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory."
Sen. Lindsey Graham promised South Carolina residents Saturday that he would "get to the bottom" of President Donald Trump's unverified accusation earlier in the day that former President Barack Obama wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower. "I'm very worried that our President is suggesting that the former President's done something illegally," the Republican lawmaker said at a packed town hall meeting.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday that if former President Barack Obama actually wiretapped Donald Trump 's phones, either legally or illegally, it would be the biggest scandal since Watergate. Speaking at a town hall in Clemson, South Carolina, Graham addressed Trump's baseless claims that Obama eavesdropped on him prior to the 2016 election.
A spokesman for Barack Obama rejects claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, saying it was "simply false." , moved, by David Shepardson, 917 words) WASHINGTON - The White House budget director confirms that the Trump administration will propose "fairly dramatic reductions" in the U.S. foreign aid budget later this month.