{"id":67500,"date":"2017-03-04T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67500"},"modified":"2017-03-04T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T15:38:22","slug":"obama-wire-tapped-his-campaign-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=67500","title":{"rendered":"Obama &#8216;Wire Tapped&#8217; His Campaign &#8212; President Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article\">Trump Tweets Obama &#8216;Wire Tapped&#8217; His Campaign<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_67501\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/300b743e-b596-402c-80d3-5213b4a73b96.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67501\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/300b743e-b596-402c-80d3-5213b4a73b96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/300b743e-b596-402c-80d3-5213b4a73b96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/300b743e-b596-402c-80d3-5213b4a73b96-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-67501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP)<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump early Saturday charged that former President Barack Obama tapped his phone as part of the investigation his campaign was communicating with the Russian government.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The first meeting Jeff Sessions had with the Russian Amb was set up by the Obama Administration under education program for 100 Ambs&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837987684660412416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my &quot;wires tapped&quot; in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837989835818287106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837991759045079040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it legal for a sitting President to be &quot;wire tapping&quot; a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837993273679560704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837994257566863360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837994257566863360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump leveled the charges in a flurry of tweets shortly after dawn, amid an avalanche of recent revelations about communications between Russian officials and some of his senior aides, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Trump repeatedly has denied having any personal ties to the Kremlin, and his aides have denied or played down contacts with Russian officials.<\/p>\n<p>But the accusations have continued amid almost daily leaks to the press that have revealed new details about links between Moscow and senior Trump officials.<\/p>\n<p>One such revelation earlier this week in the Washington Post about a meeting between Sessions and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak prompted the Republican former US senator to recuse himself from any investigations into the Trump campaign&#8217;s possible Russia ties.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions had told a Senate committee under oath that he &#8220;did not have communications with the Russians,&#8221; but reporters found that he had actually met the Russian ambassador twice in the months before taking up his post as attorney general, America&#8217;s top law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has expressed his displeasure over the charges &#8212; and the barrage of leaks that led to them &#8212; lashing out in tweets Friday directed at the top Democrats in the Republican-led Congress &#8212; Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman-turned-politician, who has accused his political foes of conducting &#8220;a total witch hunt&#8221; on Saturday directed his Twitter tirade at his Democratic predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my &#8216;wires tapped&#8217; in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!&#8221; Trump wrote a day after departing Washington for a weekend getaway at his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort for the fourth time in five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Since US intelligence took the unprecedented step of publicly accusing Russia of trying to swing the November election in Trump&#8217;s favor, questions have swirled about whether some in Trump&#8217;s campaign colluded with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>But it has now emerged that a slew of associates aside from Sessions and already fired national security advisor Michael Flynn met Kislyak before Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p>The meetings have raised red flags for Democrats, who have called for Sessions to resign and be investigated for perjury.<\/p>\n<p>Obama wasn&#8217;t the only target of Trump&#8217;s Twitter ire on Saturday morning. He also hit back at his &#8220;Apprentice&#8221; replacement who blamed Trump for problems with the show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arnold Schwarzenegger isn&#39;t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/838016045222854656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/Trump-Obama-wire-tap-Twitter\/2017\/03\/04\/id\/776865\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/Trump-Obama-wire-tap-Twitter\/2017\/03\/04\/id\/776865\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Tweets Obama &#8216;Wire Tapped&#8217; His Campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}