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Saturday, March 04, 2017
VietPress USA (Mach 4th, 2017):
Hạnh Dương
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Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower phones before
election in bizarre rant
President Donald Trump has taken his early morning Twitter
rants to a new, paranoid level.
On Saturday morning, Trump sent out a series of tweets
accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping phones inside the Trump
Tower, where Trump lived as a private citizen before the election. Trump cited
no evidence for his accusations.
Trump's tweet storm addressed the Russian ambassador scandal
embroiling his administration, particularly Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
According to reports in the Washington Post, Sessions met with Russian
Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice during the presidential campaign. One of the
meetings took place during Russia's alleged interference in the U.S. election.
First, Trump tweeted that Sessions met the ambassador during
a meeting set up by Obama along with 100 other ambassadors.
Trump then said he
"just found out" that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower prior to the
election. He then accused Obama of McCarthyism.
He then said Kislyak
visited Obama's White House 22 times, four times in the last year.
"Is it legal for a
sitting president to be 'wiretapping' a race for president prior to an
election?" Trump wrote. "A new low!"
"I'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!"
He then says this is a
"Nixon/Watergate" level crime.
It is unclear what
sparked Trump's tweets. The Hill reported that on Friday, Breitbart News (which was formally run by Trump's chief
strategist Steve Bannon) reported on claims by a conservative radio host that
Obama used "police state tactics" in a "silent coup"
against the incoming Trump administration.
Trump has already lost his
national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who resigned after it was
discovered that he conversed with the Russian ambassador concerning sanctions
Obama put on Russia for their alleged hacking of the election.
Trump is no stranger
to lobbing unfounded grenades at Obama. Trump's origin story and ascendance to
the presidency lies in his starting the Obama "birther"
movement, which claimed Obama was not a citizen and wanted him to
produce a long-form birth
certificate.
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