Trump Suggests Obama Was Involved In Robert Mueller's Investigation

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President Donald Trump is suggesting that former President Barack Obama was involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign.

He pushed a similar theory on Twitter in early 2017, accusing Obama of having his “wires tapped” in Trump Tower before the election. There was no evidence then, nor has any come to light since, yet Trump indicated to reporters Tuesday he still believes it’s true:

Link to tweet

It’s a baffling talking point that high-ranking officials in his administration continue to repeat. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did just that in an interview with CNN on Monday, blaming unnamed Democrats for being “behind the wiretapping.”

The accusation has repeatedly been rejected by other high-ranking officials, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. A long NBC News report published Tuesday details how Coats, who was recruited for the job by Vice President Mike Pence, has repeatedly found himself frustrated by the president’s intransigence:

Twelve days before Coats was sworn in by Pence as DNI in March 2017, Trump accused Obama of wiretapping him during the 2016 campaign. “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” he wrote on Twitter on March 4. Coats would find it was a subject Trump raised repeatedly.
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Coats found it particularly hard to hide his exasperation with Trump’s insistence in the weeks after taking office that Obama had wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign, according to the officials. Over and over again Trump raised the issue, and over and over Coats told him he wasn’t wiretapped, officials said, but the president didn’t want to hear it.

“It was a recurring thing and began early on,” a senior administration official who observed the exchanges said. “You could tell that Coats thought the president was crazy.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-obama-wiretap-conspiracy_n_5c9a5f46e4b049d4aba6a07e

[democratisphere]

1. drumpf is throwing BS at the wall to see what sticks.

[elleng]

3. zacly

[elleng]

2. Of course he does, time to make something else up to DISTRACT!

It's what he does, and he's liable to wreck the country (and the world) with his bull shit.

[Me.]

4. He's Just Dying To Pin Something On PBO

The green envy just oozes from him.

[C_U_L8R]

5. OK. Let's have Trump and Obama both testify under oath, publicly.

Truth is not Trump's friend.

[milestogo]

6. Obama should sue him for slander.

[Freethinker65]

7. Give Obama 9 hours of public air time answering disrespectful questions with grace and intelligence

And the country will remember what it was like to have a thoughtful smart occasionally witty President with command of the English language and facts, even if they are uncomfortable to admit.

Hillary was masterful during her testimony. Obama could bury the GOP and Trump.

[tanyev]

8. Cheetolini is incapable of comprehending a president that treats

intelligence and law enforcement agencies like the independent agencies they are.

[Doodley]

9. Trump proves again he has a big problem with a black man being a real president.

[dalton99a]

10. .