WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama
of tapping his phones at Trump Tower the month before the election,
taking to Twitter to call his predecessor a “bad (or sick) guy.”
Without
offering any evidence or providing the source of his information, Mr.
Trump fired off a series of Twitter messages claiming that Mr. Obama
“had my ‘wires tapped.’ ” He likened the supposed tapping to
“Watergate/Nixon” and “McCarthyism.”
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
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
Mr.
Trump’s aides declined to clarify whether the president’s explosive
allegations were based on briefings from intelligence or law enforcement
officials or on something else, like a news report.
A
spokesman for Mr. Obama, Kevin Lewis, issued a statement dismissing the
claims. “A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White
House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by
the Department of Justice,” he said. “As part of that practice, neither
President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance
on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
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