The first hundred days of the Trump presidency have quite possibly become the oddest in American history.
After a week of back and forth with the liberal media and Democrats over the alleged Sessions meeting with a Russian ambassador, President Trump is signaling return fire.
In a tweet today Trump argued that Obama tapped the phone lines in Trump Tower during the election.
Here’s more from The Sun…
In an astonishing salvo of early morning tweets, the firebrand President claimed his predecessor had bugged his phones during the “very sacred election process”, slamming the allegations as a “Nixon/Watergate” scandal.
Trump, who started the Twitter rant at 5:30am US eastern time, branded the claims a “new low” before appearing to call Obama a “bad (or sick) guy”.
But Obama has strongly denied the allegations.
His spokesman Kevin Lewis said: “President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen.”
The property tycoon turned politician wrote: “How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
Watergate refers to the early 1970s political scandal which forced the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon.
It involved members of a campaign team to re-elect the President being caught breaking into Democratic party’s headquarters in the Watergate Building and bugging their offices.
He also tweeted: “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
McCarthyism was coined after the Communist witch-hunts of the early 1950s.
Trump later added: “Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!”
Continuing his rant on his personal social media account, Trump wrote: “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!”
It is not clear what information Trump based his Tweets on.
Although on Friday, Breitbart News reported on radio host Mark Levin’s claims that Obama had been involved in a “silent coup” against the Trump campaign using “police state” tactics during the election campaign.
