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1ClassyLady 68F
3126 posts
3/5/2017 5:03 pm
Without evidence, Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower


President Trump’s assertion that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones before the election dominated the political talk shows on Sunday. Trump provided no evidence to back up the claim, and a spokesman for the former president branded the accusation as “simply false.”

Across the networks, the White House defended the commander in chief’s call for a congressional investigation into the matter, while Democratic lawmakers and former Obama administration officials dismissed the accusation as absurd.

On ABC’s “This Week,” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried to reframe Trump’s wiretapping claim — which he stated as a fact — as something that may have happened.

“All we’re saying is let’s take a closer look,” Huckabee Sanders said. “Let’s look into this. If this happened, if this is accurate, this is the biggest overreach and the biggest scandal.”

“If, if, if, if,” host Martha Raddatz countered. “Why is the president saying it did happen?”

“I think he’s going off of information that he’s seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential,” Huckabee Sanders replied. “And if it is, this is the greatest overreach and the greatest abuse of power that I think we have ever seen and a huge attack on democracy itself. And the American people have a right to know if this took place.”

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., was among those who labeled the suggestion that Obama tapped Trump’s phones as nonsense.

“The president of the United States did not tap Donald Trump’s phone,” Franken said on “This Week.” “I mean, that’s just ridiculous.”

Josh Earnest, who served as White House press secretary under Obama, agreed.

“Let me just remove the mystery here and explain to you and your viewers why it is false to say that President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower,” Earnest said. “This may come as a surprise to the current occupant of the Oval Office, but the president of the United States does not have the authority to unilaterally order the wiretapping of an American citizen.”

If the FBI decided to use its wiretapping authority, Earnest explained, “it would require FBI investigators, officials at the Department of Justice going to a federal judge, and making a case, and demonstrating probable cause to use that authority to conduct the investigation.”

On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Trump’s tweets show “the president doesn’t understand how you obtain a wiretap.”

“To make that type of claim without any evidence is, I think, very reckless,” Warner said.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper categorically denied any suggestion that communications at Trump Tower were wiretapped before the election.

“There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time, as a candidate, or against his campaign,” Clapper said.

When asked by host Chuck Todd whether he could confirm or deny if a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Act order (or FISA) for such wiretapping existed, Clapper declared, “I can deny it.”



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
3/6/2017 11:30 am

I strongly believe Obama is a good president who was born in Hawaii and qualified to be U.S. President. Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. Regardless how hard Trump wants to push him down.

I strong believe that Trump said "Grab them by the pus*y, you can do anything", "If he stand on 5th Avenue in New York and shoot someone, he won't lose a vote." "Take away Hillary's bodyguard's weapons, see what will happen to her", .... and so many other things he has said and acted.

When you see a duck, quack like a duck, it is a duck. No doubt.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
3/6/2017 10:28 am

    Quoting  :

Trump twists the fact to cover his scandal. In a tweet Trump wants Alec Baldwin to stop act as him in SNL shows. Baldwin retweet back "If you show your tax returns, I would stop act as you". Up to this date, Trump didn't release his income tax forms.

People elected a president who said "Grab them by the pus*y, you can do anything", at the time he just married 2 months. As you can see, this sick man can say even worse things that haven't recorded by video tapes, such as "Golden Shower" by two Russian prostitutes in a Russia hotel.

His hatred on Obama is tremendous, from the "birther", "Muslim", and Obama Care". On the day of Trump inauguration, the chief Supreme court judge said "when we inside, it was raining. Now it is clear-up, .... God is ...." Trump thinks he is God and he turned around to talk to his wife, but actually he was looking to his daughter Ivanka who sat behind Melina Trump.

Trump said if he stand on 5th Avenue in New York and shoot someone and he won't lose a vote. He said "take away Hillary's bodyguard's weapon, see what happen to her ....". Trump is mentally ill person.

Jim Cramer of "Mad Money" host said on CNBC this morning that it is insane that Trump tweeted that Obama wiretapped Trump's phones at Trump Tower to compare with Nixon president Watergate case.

In many videos, the psychiatrists said Trump has "Schizophrenia".
Check the video, what Deepak Chopra said about Trump.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
3/5/2017 6:07 pm

I think Trump needs to see a psychiatrist for his mental problems.



Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
3/5/2017 5:53 pm

Obama was NOT Trump's opponent for 2016 presidential election. Obama was a "lame duck" president that his two terms presidency soon will be over, why Obama would wiretapped Trump's phones at Trump Tower? It is absolutely absurd, outrageous ridiculous. So, Trump meant that his Trump Tower is very vulnerable to be wiretapped? What is his Trump Tower security doing that let people go inside to wiretap?? Unbelievable wrong accusation.





Honesty is the best policy.


1ClassyLady 68F
3289 posts
3/5/2017 5:24 pm

This is a false accusation out of Trump "imagination" that his predecessor, Obama, wiretapped his phone at Trump Tower. Trump is completely nonsense, an irrational accusation.



Honesty is the best policy.