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US President Donald Trump has accused his predecessor Barack Obama of wire tapping his office in New York just before the 2016 presidential elections.
Trump also likened the alleged surveillance of his communications to the Watergate scandal. Obama’s spokesperson Kevin Lewis rejected the allegations and said the former US president never ordered surveillance on any US citizen.
Trump made the allegations in a series of tweets, but did not provide any evidence to substantiate his claims.
Obama’s spokesperson Kevin Lewis rejected the allegations and said the former US president never ordered surveillance on any US citizen.
“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. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” Lewis said.
Trump made the allegations in a series of tweets, but did not provide any evidence to substantiate his claims. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump said.
“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 said, claiming that Obama had defied a court rejection to tap his office.