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Ah, the early days
Posted on: October 1, 2019 at 13:27:45 CT
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has asked the Justice Department to publicly rebut President Donald Trump’s accusation that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, people familiar with the matter said, raising the specter of a clash within the administration over probes into the Trump campaign and Russia.
The FBI’s unusual request came as the White House on Sunday pressed to back Mr. Trump’s suggestions, made in earlier tweets and without evidence, that former President Barack Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower, where Mr. Trump lived and worked during last year’s presidential campaign. A president can’t legally order a wiretap, and Mr. Obama’s office flatly denied the allegation.
The FBI, which would likely handle any such wiretaps, didn’t publicly comment on the tweets. It instead asked officials at the Justice Department, of which it is a part, to explain that no such wiretaps existed, the people familiar with the matter said. The department as of late Sunday hadn’t issued any such statement. News of the FBI request was first reported by the New York Times.
The charges by Mr. Trump came days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations related to the 2016 election. Mr. Sessions’s move was prompted by reports he’d been in contact with a Russian official while advising Mr. Trump’s campaign, which appeared at odds with his Senate testimony.
The FBI’s unusual request came as the White House on Sunday pressed to back Mr. Trump’s suggestions, made in earlier tweets and without evidence, that former President Barack Obama had tapped his phones at Trump Tower, where Mr. Trump lived and worked during last year’s presidential campaign. A president can’t legally order a wiretap, and Mr. Obama’s office flatly denied the allegation.
The FBI, which would likely handle any such wiretaps, didn’t publicly comment on the tweets. It instead asked officials at the Justice Department, of which it is a part, to explain that no such wiretaps existed, the people familiar with the matter said. The department as of late Sunday hadn’t issued any such statement. News of the FBI request was first reported by the New York Times.
The charges by Mr. Trump came days after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations related to the 2016 election. Mr. Sessions’s move was prompted by reports he’d been in contact with a Russian official while advising Mr. Trump’s campaign, which appeared at odds with his Senate testimony.
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