The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website September 22, 2017:
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
“How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
–President Trump, tweets, March 4, 2017
In March 2017, President Trump earned Four Pinocchios for relying on sketchy media reports to claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, his 2016 campaign headquarters. Then, on Sept. 19, CNN reported that the U.S. government wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Trump’s supporters claimed he was vindicated(#TrumpVindicated trended on Twitter), and several readers asked us to revisit our Four Pinocchio rating. Continue reading “Is President Trump vindicated on his claim of ‘wires tapped’ by Obama?”