Posted on 03/04/2017 2:23:31 PM PST by bryan999
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A spokesman for Barack Obama on Saturday rejected claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign, saying it was "simply false."
Trump made the accusation in a series of tweets, without citing evidence, just weeks into his administration and amid rising scrutiny of his campaign's ties to Russia.
"Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false," Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement.
Trump hurled the accusation in the tweets sent early on Saturday morning.
"How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!," Trump wrote in one tweet. "I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!"
Trump said the alleged wiretapping took place in his Trump Tower office and apartment building in New York, but there was "nothing found."
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded last year that Russia hacked and leaked Democratic emails during the election campaign as part of an effort to tilt the vote in Trump's favor. The Kremlin has denied the allegations.
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The wire-tapping makes it even clearer as to why Obama removed computers from his office.
The sap doesn’t know....he left a trail he cant cover-up.
Commies always maintain plausible deniability
Try them all
Yep, Obama is a known liar.
Liars and damned liars at that!
You must go to jail if Trump was bugged by your minions. Period.
“simply false.”
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor period!
When I want to hear some lying gas from a Muslim Seditionist, I’ll beat it out of his lying face with a nail-studded baseball bat.
You nailed it succinctly !
Leni
If Obama’s spokesman was laughing while he said what ever he said = GUILTY
Yep
Well well well.
I am curious (redneck).
I don’t know why Trump isn’t waiting to dig deeper yet but the war of words is half the entertainment.
I believe Hillary will find herself behind bars eventually, but the Donald wants 0bama to go first.
True...president Trump does NOT talk out of his arse, as wee barry always does.
“Neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” Obama.”
Well, I guess that’s that then.
#2 Post-— Right.... This is a “spokesman” for Zero.
There is still degrees of “deniability” between the utterances of Zero and his spokesman.
Call me when the exculpatory statement is on video and supported by a transcript showing all of the commentary before and after the “bad-boy” statement.
Nixon denied it too
post #17— Back to English and diagramming the sentence.
Read every word.
This statement is meant to deflect and confuse.
Okay....let us proceed down through the list of the usual suspects:
Comey
Lynch
Kerry
Brennan
Can the same “denial” be applied to each of them. Yes or no?
Zero’s litter box is full and he can’t cover his feces up fast enough!
Atkinson
James Rosen and family
AP
Lied right there
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