(CNN) On Saturday morning, most of us laughed off President Donald Trump's Twitter storm accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones during the campaign. As Trump's spokesperson, Sean Spicer, stated in a series of tweets , "President Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016." President Trump's "request" should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who has any understanding of how dictators work . And it's worth lingering on the point that Saturday's tweets were truly hysterical -- in both senses of that word. A short time later Trump's press office said that Trump, who was again staying at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend, " might hit a few golf balls " later that day.

Source: CNN March 05, 2017 19:11 UTC