"The F.B.I. director, Comey, asked the Justice Department to publicly reject President Trump’s assertion that President Barack Obama ordered the tapping of Trump’s phones, arguing that that the highly charged claim is false and must be corrected. Senior law enforcement and intelligence officials who worked in the Obama administration have said that there were no secret intelligence warrants regarding Trump. The claims about wiretapping appear similar in some ways to the unfounded voter fraud charges that Trump made during his first days in the Oval Office.Trump’s demand for a congressional investigation appears to be based on unproven claims by Breitbart News and conservative talk radio hosts that secret warrants were issued authorizing the tapping of the phones at Trump Tower in New York." Still in campaign mode, Trump does not grasp that he IS president and his words have impact!
At www.nytimes.com
