Loading ...In response to President Trump’s statement accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of wiretapping him, the Obama team had this to say:
“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,” Kevin Lewis said in a statement early Saturday afternoon. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
In short, the phraseology makes it almost certain that the wiretap request on Trump Tower was issued by former Obama appointee, ally and former Attorney General, Loretta Lynch. It is certainly NOT business as usual for a political appointee to request a wiretap on an opposing campaign. Making it even more troubling, is that Obama would have had to know about it, regardless of his denials. Indeed, the way his current denial is phrased clearly indicates knowledge.