“How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process,” Trump tweeted. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US citizen. Levin called the effort a “silent coup” by the Obama administration and said this, rather than Trump’s Russian ties, should be the subject of a congressional investigation. Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer, said Trump’s tweets were part of “the distraction playbook”. An hour after his blast at Obama, Trump returned to more trivial matters on Twitter.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2017 17:33 UTC