Comey CLEARLY knew about the wiretaps by Obama.
And as it turns out Trump was angry about it.
With good reason.
Trump tweeted about it and was endlessly ridiculed, and was even expected to "apologize" to Obama for such a fanciful tale
We didn't know even a fraction about what Obama was up to.
At the time, Comey would have been seen as a white hat, alerting his boss, the POTUS.
We now know that Comey was a slithering denizen of the swamp.
Not sure why he would tell the POTUS this, when he was up to his ears in corruption.
Trying to save his hide?
I think he was trying to threaten and blackmail him.
WE WERE WARNED--- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told Roland Martin in a February interview: "President Obama has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful,” Waters said. “That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s [President Obama] been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.”
SOURCE http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/maxine-waters-obama-has-put-in-place-secret-database-with-everything-on-everyone-video/
And a big part of the mockery was that Trump tweeted about wire tapping which, of course, is never done any more. And this mockery came from people who routinely talk of "dialing a phone" (even though phones no longer have dials), and "filming" a video to get "footage" (even though it's all digital now).