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Undated:
Trump Tower wiretapping allegations
On March 4, 2017,
U.S. President
Donald
Trump wrote a series of posts on
his Twitter account that accused former President
Barack
Obama of
wiretapping his phones at his
Trump
Tower office late in the
2016 presidential campaign. Trump called for a congressional investigation
into the matter, and the Trump administration cited news reports to defend these
accusations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_wiretapping_allegations
-- 2017 --
On Twitter: [Per Trump]: Terrible! Just found out that Obama
had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found.
This is McCarthyism!
March 4
@realDonaldTrump
On Twitter:
[From Trump]: How low has President Obama gone to
tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
March 4
@realDonaldTrump
http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/322415-panetta-trump-claims-makes-us-vulnerable
March 6:
The White House struggled to answer questions Monday about President Trump’s
unsubstantiated assertion that President Obama illegally wiretapped him during
the 2016 campaign.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/322630-white-house-on-the-defensive-over-wiretapping-allegation
"The American people need to know what evidence he has to make such a charge
-- that’s a serious charge,” McCain said, as reported by
NBC News.
March 10: A day after a secret FBI briefing, the leaders
of the House Intelligence Committee told CNN Friday that they still have yet
to see any evidence to back up President Donald Trump's stunning claims that
the Obama administration spied on him.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/adam-schiff-donald-trump-wiretapping/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
March 12: Rep. Devin Nunes, the GOP chairman of the committee, said that his panel has
sent letters to "multiple agencies" to obtain records by next week ahead of
the March 20 hearing. And he said that he still stands by his assertion from
earlier this week that he has yet to see evidence confirming Trump's Saturday
morning tweet that then-President Barack Obama ordered wiretaps to spy on him
during the presidential campaign.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/12/politics/john-mccain-donald-trump/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
March 16: The heads of the
Senate Intelligence Committee have seen no evidence that the Obama
administration “wiretapped” Trump Tower, according to a brief statement issued
Thursday.
“Based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a joint statement, providing no other details.
Burr joins a steady drumbeat of Republicans who have explicitly
contracted President Trump’s explosive claims that he was surveilled during the
campaign.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/324324-senate-intel-chair-no-indications-trump-tower-surveilled
March 17: A Republican lawmaker called on President Donald Trump Friday
to either provide evidence or apologize to former President Barack Obama for his
so-far unverified claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016
election.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/tom-cole-donald-trump-apology/index.html
March 20: FBI Director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee
Monday that he had "no information that supports those tweets" alleging that
Obama wiretapped Trump, adding that the Department of Justice asked him to
convey that it also does not have any supporting information.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-president-trumps-unsubstantiated-wiretapping-claims/story?id=46198888
April 6: The White House is standing by
President Trump’s assertions that former President Obama ordered a wiretap
of his phones, even as others -- Democrats and Republicans alike -- have said
there is no proof.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-president-trumps-unsubstantiated-wiretapping-claims/story?id=46198888
April 12: "I'm very disappointed that I was surveilled and so was my
campaign," Trump told the newspaper. "That's not supposed to be happening, but
I've been proven right."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/politics/obama-germany-angela-merkel-trump/?iid=ob_lockedrail_bottomlist
April 19:
Watchdog
Group Drops [begins] Lawsuit On Dept. Of Justice Over Trump’s Wiretap Claims
http://bipartisanreport.com/2017/04/19/watchdog-group-drops-lawsuit-on-dept-of-justice-over-trumps-wiretap-claims/
May 1: [Trump's response
to question about whether he still stood by his belief that Obama wiretapped
Trump tower]: "I don't stand by anything. I
just-- you can take it the way you want. I think our side's been proven very
strongly [despite the fact that there is zero evidence to back
up that claim]. And everybody's talking about
it. And frankly it should be discussed. I think that is a very big
surveillance of our citizens. I think it's a very big topic. And it's a
topic that should be number one. And we should find out what the hell is
going on." ... "I don't stand by anything" ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/donald-trump-andrew-jackson-wiretapping/index.html
On Twitter: Is it legal for a
sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an
election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
March 4
@realDonaldTrump
On Twitter: How low has President
Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is
Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
March 4
@realDonaldTrump
September 2:
Justice Department: No evidence Obama
wiretapped Trump Tower
"Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records
related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets,"
the government said, referring to the Justice Department’s National Security
Division.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/02/obama-trump-tower-wiretap-no-evidence-242284
September 19: Is Trump's 'Wiretap' Claim
Vindicated?
The president’s defenders say reported surveillance of Paul Manafort justifies
an accusation against Barack Obama, but they overstate the facts.
There were two major problems with the accusation. First, Trump offered no
evidence to support them. Second, the
system is set up to prevent politically motivated surveillance by requiring
that judges sign off any surveillance warrant, meaning a president could not
simply order a wiretap (or any other form of eavesdropping). Recent White Houses
have made it a rule not to interfere with the Justice Department, though Trump
himself has
on occasion
broken that barrier.
... the White House demanded that Congress investigate whether Obama ordered
surveillance on Trump, yet refused to share what reasons it had for believing it
had happened.
Eventually, the provenance of Trump’s accusation began to emerge: Radio host
Mark Levin had alleged surveillance; then a Breitbart story did the
same, synthesizing already public information to make a speculative claim.
Later, Fox News legal commentator Andrew Napolitano parroted it.
Pressed on his claim, Trump claimed, falsely, not to have rendered an opinion on
whether Obama ordered him to be wiretapped, and
said reporters should take it up with Napolitano, since it was his
statement. Setting aside the fact that one expects the president of the United
States to vet information before saying it, Fox News made clear that it viewed
Napolitano’s charge as baselessly speculative by
yanking him temporarily off the air.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/does-the-latest-manafort-news-vindicate-trumps-wiretap-claim/540321/
-- 2018 --
February 12: No, Obama not facing indictment
for spying on Trump
A fake news story on Facebook claims that while the liberal media "ridiculed"
President Donald Trump over his claim that former President Barack Obama spied
on him during the election, America has now learned that Obama did indeed spy
and will be indicted.
The clickbait article declares at the conclusion: "Share this story if you want
to see Obama behind bars for the rest of his treasonous life!"
There is no evidence that Obama himself ordered wiretapping to spy on Trump
during the election and is now headed toward an indictment. Trump tweeted in
2017 that Obama had ordered surveillance on him. While there have been media
reports about intelligence investigations into Trump’s associates’ possible
Russia ties, there is no proof that Obama himself ordered wiretapping of Trump.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/feb/12/blog-posting/no-obama-not-facing-indictment-spying-trump/
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