"How low has President Obama gone?," asked US President Donald Trump while making the allegation.
In a Twitter rant on Saturday morning, a very upset US President Donald Trump announced that his predecessor Barack Obama had "wires tapped" Trump Tower just before his shocking election victory. Trump went on to claim that nothing was found and said ,"This is McCarthyism!"
Trump was referring to a 1950s US Senator Joseph McCarthy who led a hunt for purported communist infiltrators in the US government, often involving unfounded accusations.
"Is it legal?," Trump asked, for a sitting President to wire tap prior to an election. Trump called it a" A NEW LOW".
Trump claims a "good lawyer" could make a case over the fact that President Obama tapped his phones in October 2016. He expressed disappointment in Obama for tapping his phones "during the very sacred election process".
Obama has not yet confirmed whether the allegation is true or false and is yet to comment on it.
Trump's administration has come under pressure from FBI and congressional investigations into contacts between some members of his campaign team and Russian officials during his campaign.
Obama imposed sanctions on Russia and ordered Russian diplomats to leave the US in December over the country's involvement in hacking political groups in the November 8 US presidential election.
Trump's national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned in February after revelations that he had discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with the Russian ambassador to the United States before Trump took office.
Flynn had promised Vice President Mike Pence he had not discussed US sanctions with the Russians, but transcripts of intercepted communications, described by US officials, showed that the subject had come up in conversations between him and the Russian ambassador.
Trump has often used his Twitter account to attack rivals and for years led a campaign alleging that Obama was not born in the U.S. He later retracted the allegation.
Here's what Trump has said so far on the issue on Twitter:
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