President Donald Trump on Thursday condemned a report that said the FBI under former President Barack Obama spied on the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, adding that the revelation could be “bigger than Watergate.”
Early this morning, Trump tweeted: “Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.”
Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign….” “If so, this is bigger than Watergate!” the president tweeted in reference to a National Review report which was published last week.
The report says that the Obama-led agencies used their surveillance powers to monitor Trump’s campaign and other associates related to it. This is not the first time that the Obama administration has been accused of spying on the Trump campaign.
In 2016, Trump also accused the former president of wiretapping Trump Tower shortly before the 2016 election. The president tweeted in March 2017: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
However, former White House press secretary Sean Spicer later walked back the president’s claim, saying that President Trump did not mean that Obama literally wiretapped Trump Tower.
“The president used the word wiretap in quotes to mean broadly surveillance and other activities during that,” Spicer said. “There is no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 elections.”
Rudy Giuliani, who is now leading the president’s legal team in an interview with Fox News, which aired on Wednesday, also suggested that the Obama administration had spies working in President Trump’s campaign. But none of the claims have been confirmed with any sort of evidence.
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