Obama strongly denies Trump accusation that he wiretapped phones in Trump Tower

[steve2470]

Source: ABC News

A spokesman for former President Obama issued a strong denial to President Trump's accusation that the former commander-in-chief wiretapped Trump Tower phones during the election campaign.

"A cardinal rule of the Obama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement Saturday. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false."

The former president was responding to a series of tweets Saturday morning by Trump claiming that the former president wiretapped phones in Trump Tower in New York City during the presidential campaign.

Trump offered no proof for his claims.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-accuses-obama-wiretapping-phones-trump-tower/story?id=45905776

[NastyRiffraff]

1. President Obama is probably shaking his head

at Dump's stupid tweets. I think that he, like us, is watching a man slowly going mad.

[ailsagirl]

5. Or maybe not so slowly

I think blotus has reached the tipping point-- it seems to me the dam is about to break

[Renew Deal]

2. What that probably means is that Trump either misunderstood what he was told or he lied

or believed a lie.

But the FISA stuff isn't new. I believe it applied to his associates, not him.

[ginnyinWI]

6. garbage in, garbage out.

It's apparently true: his main news sources are Fox and Brietbart. So what do ya expect.

[Renew Deal]

7. Trump should declassify the FISA warrant

Just to clear things up.

[bettyellen]

21. I totally think Breitbart is reporting what Bannon wants DT to react to....

Or what he feels DT is concerned about - in order to give DT the spin instead of him going off the Bannon message.

[LishaD35]

25. Yep!

I've been thinking about that all morning.

[bettyellen]

26. It's been blame Dems for days now. Stupid gamble he took here- someone is going to have to confirm

Or deny the wiretapping now.

[cstanleytech]

38. I wonder if someone will file a FOIA for it now? Then a judge gets the chore of either releasing it

since the President made the claim and in essence declassified its existance or he gets the joy of calling the President a liar.

[bettyellen]

40. Have seen on Twitter that people are planning to!

[Abu Pepe]

43. yep. nt

[dalton99a]

3. There it is.

[mobeau69]

4. Of course we knew that.

drumpf is out of his fricken mind.

[ginnyinWI]

9. I'm not willing to give him that excuse.

He's willfully ignorant, has a terrible personality, no moral compass, is selfish, mean, and all the rest. Worst president ever in modern times at least.

He's in his right mind, though. It's just that he's such a bad hombre who has lived in or near the underworld most of his life and long ago sold his soul.

[Dave Starsky]

13. Worst President ever, in modern times or else.

I don't think even Harding brought this singular blend of incompetence and corruption to the White House. We're talking fucking TREASON here.

[cstanleytech]

39. Worst period and after Bush who was pro torture I didnt think we could see any worse in my lifetime.

[CitizenZero]

8. Trump Is Paranoid

Trump is paranoid and irrational. I think that he truly believes these falsehoods are real. If not, he is a terrible liar. Maybe he is a mix of both: pathological liar and paranoid. He is a danger to the Nation. We need to get to the root of the Russian Connection. We need Trump out of office. Impeach, Oppose, Resist.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Or high as a kite

So much about this guy screams 'cokehead'

[Scarsdale]

14. Company

tRump has NEVER sought the company of decent people. He goes for the underworld types, sleazy, unethical people. Decent people want nothing to do with him. The ones who did, got burned. So, naturally he thinks President Obama MUST be as low as him and his cohorts. WRONG. We need him out of office before the country goes bankrupt from his weekly flights to Florida, along with his entire family.

[zonkers]

11. Barry would never do that!!!

[Cha]

35. "Barry"? That's President Obama

[paleotn]

42. Excure me?

That's President Barrack Obama to you, buddy. Oh, and bit me!

[meadowlander]

12. Love that they got the dig in about the independant Justice department too.

[HoneyBadger]

15. So Obama did not wiretap Trump

That was simple

[WheelWalker]

16. Game on.

[wishstar]

17. Serious business- Trump stepped far over line for Pres. Obama to have to issue "official " statement

I had been wishfully hoping for a smack down from Pres. Obama and glad he figured out to do it without getting into a personal back and forth twitter fight.

[HoneyBadger]

18. The implication is that Obama could have ordered surveillance on a non US citizen aka Putin, etc

If Putin happened to be calling Trump, what then?

[Blue Idaho]

19. Don't Feed the Trolls...

Unfortunately the President is king troll...

[Fred Sanders]

20. The daily Big Lie from Trump is not the proper way to try to spread propaganda and sow confusion.

There has to be some evidence and credibility, not just ¨the planet is flat¨ beliefs.

Trump is now beyond crazy, he is embarrassing himself and the nation.

[riversedge]

22. Hewitt-the vile Conservative is on msnbc questioning what happened!! damn.

[ginnyinWI]

23. MSNBC video--Malcolm Nance

Link to tweet

[Cha]

36. Yeah, I like the way Nance frames it.. thanks ginny

[stillcool]

24. yeah but....

where's his birth certificate?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

27. Classic diversion while covering up: Accuse Obama to take attention of tRump-Sessions-Putin. . nt

[Cha]

37. 'Zactly

[Fred Sanders]

28. CNN Headline: Trump Falsely Accuses Obama of Wiretapping his Phone

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/04/politics/trump-obama-wiretap-tweet/index.html

[Judi Lynn]

32. Outstanding response in your CNN article, from Ben Rhodes, in a Tweet:

No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you.

Excelente!

[Cha]

34. How much of this is about DT not being able to beat Obama in the ratings for his first Joint Address

Link to tweet

trump is desperately trying to change the subject like a cornered rat

[Victor_c3]

29. I dont know...

Isn't denying something the first thing someone who is guilty of something do??

I still doubt that Obama was born in the US. I mean if someone was trying to make a fake birth certificate wouldn't they try to make it look real? So the fact that it looks real means that it's a fake!

Just like the fact that Obama is denying something means that he is guilty!

(I hope I don't need this sarcastic thingies here)

[Bengus81]

30. I wouldn't have issued ANYTHING about this BS. That just plays into Trump and his distraction....

[OldRedneck]

31. If . . .

If Trump's phones were tapped, that means a judge found probably cause that a crime had been committed (and/or was in progress) and the judge issued a warrant.

The Trumpster may want to STFD and STFU.

[Cha]

33. Fuckhead never offers any proof..

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

41. Trump thought he could beat any rap

with the FAKE NEWS trick. He's constantly flipping truth and lies and back again.
It only works a few times, then even dumb people see the pattern.

[dewsgirl]

44. How did we going from almost perfection, to this catastrophic bafoon?

-

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Just Drumpf talking through his ass again

[hollowdweller]

46. Obama: If you are being wiretapped it's the law doing it not me -Beware

Trump declared war on the democrats, and the intelligence community.

I think he's losing.