On Saturday, President Donald Trump went on a Twitter tirade, accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping his telephone during his campaign, without offering any proof.
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
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
Obama’s spokesperson responded in kind, tweeting a denial of Trump’s claim.
Neither @barackobama nor any WH official under Obama has ever ordered surveillance on any US Citizen. Any suggestion is unequivocally false pic.twitter.com/qF04X3NUvq
— Kevin Lewis (@KLewis44) March 4, 2017
It is unclear what prompted the president’s social media tirade, but the New York Times speculated it was based on an article in Breitbart accusing “President Barack Obama’s administration in its last months to undermine Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and, later, his new administration.”
