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Trump Faces Furor Over Unsubstantiated Claim Obama Wiretapped Him
President Donald Trump made unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped phone lines at Trump Tower before the election. Mr. Trump, who is spending the weekend at his private Mar-a-Lago club here, added a meeting with Mr. Photo: GettyPALM BEACH, Fla.—President Donald Trump called together several top advisers Saturday, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions and political strategist Steve Bannon, as the White House faced a growing furor over the president's early morning claims he had been wiretapped by his predecessor. Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary...White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, center, walks offstage with White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23, 2017. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Ben Rhodes, a longtime national security adviser to Obama, tweeted at Trump: "No President can order a wiretap. Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for Obama, said in a statement: "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. President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a "Nixon/Watergate" plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters in the run-up to last fall's election, providing no evidence to support his explosive claim and drawing a flat denial from Obama's office.
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