Donald Trump is still convert that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping of Trump Tower last yr , despite acongressional investigationand multipleintelligence agenciesstating unequivocally there is no evidence of his call . But that did n’t give up our Cheeto - in - gaffer from reviving this old , tired fantasy during a telecasting interview that aired this dawn . This time around , however , Trump did not desire to elaborate on what he believe .
The President suddenly endedan interviewwith CBS reporter John Dickerson when pressed on hisunsubstantiated claimsthat his Manhattan skyscraper was wiretapped ahead of the 2016 presidential election . The meeting , which was film on Saturday to co-occur with Trump ’s 100th day in post , bulge out with a very dewy-eyed enquiry about President Trump ’s relationship Obama .
Things get spicy around the 8:30 target :
“ [ Obama ] was very nice to me , but after that , we ’ve had some difficulty . So it does n’t count . You know , words are less important to me than deeds , and you saw what happened with surveillance , ” Trump said .
Dickerson asked the president to clear up his scuttlebutt . “ I recall our sides been proven very strongly and everybody ’s talk about it , and candidly , it should be discuss — I think that is a very vainglorious surveillance of our citizen . I think that ’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 , ” Trump suffice .
Dickerson pressed the president to excuse his remark again , and whether he tolerate by his unproven claims . Trump became visibly frustrated , and ended the interview . “ OK , it ’s enough . Thank you . give thanks you very much,”he state , before shooing Dickerson out of the room .
To recapitulation , the absurd and unsubstantiated claim of wiretapping all started about two months ago , when Trump fired off a serial of early cockcrow tweets :
Terrible ! Just establish out that Obama had my " telegram solicit " in Trump Tower just before the victory . Nothing see . This is McCarthyism !
— Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump)March 4 , 2017
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process . This is Nixon / Watergate . Bad ( or pallid ) guy !
horn did not present any grounds of the speculate wiretapping , and also notably misspelled the word “ hydrant . ” It was a sad Clarence Shepard Day Jr. for democracy , and also for anyone who has ever wanted a prexy who can spell .
About a hebdomad later , senior counselor-at-law Kellyanne Conway tried to broaden Trump ’s claims during aninterview with Meet The Presswhen she said , “ you may follow someone through their phones , certainly through their television sets — any number of way . ” She by and by added that monitoring could be done with “ microwaves that turn into photographic camera ” and that “ we know this is a fact of forward-looking aliveness . ”
James Clapper : " There was no such wire tap activeness total against " Donald Trump.#MTPpic.twitter.com / eNGFKe0vxY
— run across the Press ( @MeetThePress)March 5 , 2017
That , of course , is dogshit , as were the initial claim themselves . Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper instantly deny them during his own consultation withMeet The Press , one day after Trump ’s false accusal . “ There was no such wiretap activity climb up against the president , the president - chosen at the time , as a candidate or against his run , ” he said .
Keep shuffling those paper , Don .
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