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Obama denies he ordered tapping of Trump’s phones’
A spokesman of Former U.S president, Barack Obama has said Obama never ordered surveillance of any US citizen, and definite not on Donald Trump.
Reacting to Trump’s claims that Obama had his phone tapped during the last Presidential elections, the spokesman for Mr Obama, Kevin Lewis, said the accusation was “simply false”.
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”, he said.
The statement left open the possibility that a judicial investigation had been taking place.
Read also: Trump accuses Obama of tapping his phone during elections
Also, a Republican Senator Ben Sasse has told controversial US President Trump to back-up his phone tapping allegation that his predecessor, Obama ordered his phones to be tapped during the election campaign.
Senator Sasse said Trump’s claims were “serious” and he should explain the alleged wire-tapping and how he came to know about it.
Trump took to Twitter yesterday accusing Obama of ‘wire-tapping’ his office- Trump Tower phones, prior to the last staged general elections.
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” Trump tweeted, as part of a six-tweet screed.
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