For a sitting president to do this... hell for that president to continue being active to the point of seditious after leaving office... is so unprecedented that it almost defies credulity.
And if this bears up under scrutiny, it well could be the end of the Obamas, the Clintons, the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, and progressivism in general.
Obama ordering the taps would be the single greatest FUBAR in American political history. He would have bet EVERYTHING on defeating Trump. And he lost. And the potential for blowback is incalculable.
Trump is now poised to alter the landscape as no elected official has before. And he'd better be damned careful. About his strategy. And about his personal safety.
You don't know the fake-news MSM/Democrats.
The most we can expect is that at some point far down the road, after unbelievable amounts of dirt are thrown and an endless list of lies are told against us, we'll get a "mistakes were made" statement out of an Obama spokesman, and the whole thing will be dropped into the MSM memory hole.