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Did Obama wire tap Trump before the election? in News
President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.
@CYDdharta , I agree. The news made it sound like Trump just twitted that because he was not in a mood. Trump had some basis to do that, and to you point Obama had history. Additionally, Snowden was a product of Obama administration- Obama's administration thought nothing of mass surveillance.
@CYDdharta Weak point. We tap lots of world leaders. No need to wiretap Trump, his crazy was out there for anyone to see. And if it wasn't , he'd call in to make sure we all knew. Big difference, legally between listening to foreign governments and getting court order for American citizen.
We don't have evidence that Obama wire tapped Trump. That said, as @CYDdharta stated there is a precedent. We will have to see what evidence Trump actually has, but I doubt he would go that far with nothing. I think it is bery plausible, but we just have to see.
No excuse by Obama to wiretap Merkel and other leaders, but that is a far stretch from saying he wire tapped Trump. I stil have not seen evidence other than speculation.
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There is really no evidence, and now FBI Director Comey: Justice Dept. has no information that supports Trump’s tweets alleging he was wiretapped by Obama
Given the precedent I initially also thought that Trump had some real evidence on Obama. I am now starting to strongly doubt myself that he actually had any evidence,
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/trump-wiretap-obama-republicans-us-intelligence
But since that's a familiar pattern and Trump after all is an outsider, that is not unexpected.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-director-to-testify-on-russian-interference-in-the-presidential-election/2017/03/20/cdea86ca-0ce2-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.d8fc55dcccb0&wpisrc=nl_&wpmm=1
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