ICYMI, President Donald Trump sent quite a few, highly sensitive tweets into the Twitter-sphere this weekend, regarding an alleged wiretap that was used during the most recent election:
Trump released several tweets claiming that former president Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower during the election campaign. The current president failed to provide any evidence to support such claims.
In a statement, Obama spokesperson Kevin Lewis said:
“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. 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.”
Still, President Donald Trump has requested for the congressional intelligence committees to open an investigation regarding his claims. He also went on to release a few more tweets:
Yet FBI Director James Comely allegedly told the U.S. Department of Justice that President Barack Obama did not order a wiretap, and urged the importance of the government to make that point clear.
Comely asked the Department of Justice to publicly denounce Trump’s claims as false. The report was confirmed by NBC News and CNN, and it raised new questions of how federal officials should respond to any claims or false information.
The White House then went on to call for a congressional investigation of the president’s claims.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — who would have overseen U.S. wiretap — said Sunday he had no knowledge of any such activities.
But Comey allegedly wanted officials to go further: to publicly say they had no evidence that Obama had directed any sort of wiretap against the then-Republican presidential nominee.
As of Sunday, Comely has not commented publicly again about President Trump's allegations.
SIDE NOTE: Although Barack Obama has not personally commented on this case, we did get some laughs out of this PARODY TWITTER ACCOUNT for the 44th President of the United States, run independently by comedian Carrot Top: