President Trump had no evidence on Saturday morning when he smeared his predecessor, President Barack Obama, accusing him of ordering that Trump Tower phones be tapped during the 2016 campaign. director, James Comey, was so alarmed by Mr. Trump’s fact-free claim — which implicitly accused the F.B.I. director was demanding that Justice officially declare the president to be misleading the public. Mr. Trump is now trying to bootstrap his claims into a congressional investigation of the Obama administration. By alleging potential criminality in the nation’s highest office, Mr. Trump has tweeted himself into a corner.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2017 02:00 UTC