Trump Faces Growing Furor Over His Claims Obama Wiretapped Him in October
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Mr. Trump tweeted early Saturday morning that former President Barack Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower, where Mr. Trump lived and worked in New York during the campaign, but provided no evidence for what amounted to an extraordinary claim of illegal activity by a former president.
The tweets used strong language and compared Mr. Obama to Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory,” Mr. Trump tweeted at 6:35 a.m. “Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
His postings also referred to Mr. Obama as a “bad (or sick) guy,” compared any such phone tapping to the Watergate scandal, and suggested that “a good lawyer could make a great case” of the matter.
Public officials, including some of Mr. Trump’s fellow Republicans, reacted sharply to the allegation. A spokesman for Mr. Obama said “neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”