" When Conway said "we know (former national security adviser) General (Michael) Flynn was wiretapped," Cuomo immediately interrupted her: "General Flynn was not wiretapped.
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Trump said that the information, which had nothing to do with his accusation that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, "somewhat" vindicated his claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Later, we learned that that Manafort had reportedly been wiretapped.
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OK. Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aids. Ok?
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Some of his aides are being wiretapped at Trump Towers.
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The White House never provided evidence that Obama wiretapped Trump.
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Success in just 36 days !" and " Proof Obama Wiretapped Trump !
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MORE wiretapped his phone lines during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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NBC recently reported that Cohen, Trump's personal attorney, was wiretapped.
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Neighbors informed on neighbors, and any phone could be wiretapped.
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There's still no evidence that Obama ever wiretapped Trump Tower.
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If Trump says Obama wiretapped him, they believe that too.
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Beyond that, his defense is that much more challenging when it comes to his over-the-top tweets that President Obama had wiretapped him, whether the word "wiretapped" was circumscribed by quotes or not.
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MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election, as Trump has insisted.
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The president was not wiretapped at Trump Tower by Barack Obama?
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Wiretapped phone call recordings showed him looking for the highest bidder.
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Mr. Comey also dismissed Mr. Trump's claim that he was wiretapped.
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Carter Page was wiretapped for over a year on an unverified dossier.
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Nunes reiterates that he has seen no evidence that Trump was wiretapped.
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The network originally had reported Thursday that Cohen's phones were being wiretapped.
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MORE wiretapped him during the presidential race, according to a new report.
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The investigators said the FSB provided telephones that could not be wiretapped.
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The FBI also reportedly wiretapped Flynn's phone conversation with Kislyak on Dec.
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The F.B.I. wiretapped Representative Rick Renzi in an extortion and racketeering investigation.
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He claimed in 2017 that then-President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Mr. Rosen himself clarified on Fox News that he was not wiretapped.
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About 80 percent of wiretapped conversations, for example, don't mention any criminal activity.
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He also reiterated that Trump's claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped was unfounded.
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Was this evidence that Obama wiretapped Trump as he was running for president?
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Additionally, Comey dismissed Trump's claims that Trump was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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During Republican Richard Nixon's administration, the FBI wiretapped White House aides and journalists.
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Trump claimed last month without evidence that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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It's plausible that Obama — or some arm of the federal government — wiretapped Trump.
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Trump has given no evidence for his claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped.
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The federal government reportedly wiretapped Manafort during and after the 2016 election cycle.
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Both men went on to claim that their predecessors had wiretapped these discussions.
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was wiretapped before and after the election.
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One, does this vindicate President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped him?
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INGRAHAM: Remember when Trump was ridiculed by everyone when he said I was wiretapped.
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He also was reportedly wiretapped by investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election.
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He also was reportedly wiretapped by investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election.
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However, none of those appeared to confirm that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Prepaid phones are one way to ensure anonymity, though they, too, can be wiretapped.
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An FBI Director rejecting the POTUS' claim that the former POTUS illegally wiretapped him.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has alleged that the Obama administration wiretapped his election campaign.
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Two days after that interview Trump claimed on Twitter that Obama had wiretapped him.
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Like when he said Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the election.
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Trump said in the tweets that he had "just found out" about being wiretapped.
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His intelligence agency illegally wiretapped the Supreme Court and individual judges; he denied involvement.
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Congressional leaders from both political parties say they do not believe Trump was wiretapped.
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They spied on a US campaign, wiretapped Americans, bit on the dossier and unmasked Flynn.
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In wiretapped cell phone calls, Agnese's mother is heard scolding her daughter for not working.
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House Intel chairmen say they have not seen evidence that then-President Obama wiretapped Trump.
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Trump's claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, presented without evidence, generated weeks of controversy.
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MORE wiretapped Trump Tower were two controversies his supporters liked most, according to the poll.
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According to a separate report, the FBI also wiretapped the veteran operative beginning in 20153.
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Nunes, however, did say that he had seen no evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped.
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The suggestion that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower set off an avalanche of controversy.
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As part of the investigation, American intelligence agencies have examined wiretapped communications and phone records.
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Does Trump believe Obama wiretapped or spied on him more broadly at Trump Tower or anywhere?
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In Trump's world, if enough people believe that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, then it happened.
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He also dismissed an allegation that Mr Trump was wiretapped at the behest of Barack Obama.
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Monday's reports, however, did not state that Trump or his New York home had been wiretapped.
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He wiretapped Gilberto's phone in prison, and heard Gilberto speaking with Pacho and Chepe about surrender.
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The Senate Intelligence committee has been investigating the claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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The president's claim is that the Obama administration specifically "wiretapped" the phones in his private office.
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Trump first levied the charge on Twitter one month ago, claiming that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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The Trump administration has not provided any evidence to prove that the former president wiretapped Trump.
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The Journal abandoned efforts to make sense of President Trump's outright fiction that Obama wiretapped him.
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Correction: Earlier today NBC News, and this reporter, said that Michael Cohen's phone lines were wiretapped.
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Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois was wiretapped trying to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.
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Then, investigators say, they heard wiretapped conversations suggesting that Zarrab was bribing officials in Erdoğan's government.
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In March 2017, President Trump made the false claim that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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He also tried to cover for Trump's lie that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that Trump did not mean literally that Obama personally wiretapped him.
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The president alleged that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the election.
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Some of them obviously would matter, if they were true: millions of illegal voters, wiretapped by Obama.
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According to the complaint, Singer and Loughlin discussed IRS audits of the KWF in wiretapped phone calls.
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He's continued to spread baseless stories and rumors, including that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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The mushroom cloud surrounding his baseless allegations that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower is spreading faster.
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The FBI wiretapped Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, both before and after the election, CNN reports.
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A whopping 85033 percent of voters do not believe Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped him last year.
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AG Sessions was just asked if he ever gave Trump a reason to believe he was wiretapped.
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The report follows a Monday report that Manafort was wiretapped during and after the 85033 presidential campaign.
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Trump said he felt "somewhat" vindicated by Nunes' findings, though Nunes never actually said Trump was wiretapped.
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There is of course no credible evidence that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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He wiretapped actors like Sylvester Stallone, and did work on behalf of Chris Rock and Courtney Love.
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Just think about all the energy devoted to the false allegation that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Mussolini wiretapped Toscanini's hotel room and, overhearing him decry anti-Jewish measures, had his passport taken away.
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Mr. Macdonald's interviews indicate that this was discovered by Houston's father, John, after he wiretapped the phones.
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CNN reported that investigators had wiretapped Paul Manafort "under secret court orders" before and after the Nov.
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He cut an interview short after a reporter questioned his unsubstantiated claims that his campaign was wiretapped.
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In a wiretapped call the next day, Mr. Fiore complained that he had stayed out past midnight.
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Who can forget his unfounded allegations in March 2017 that the intelligence community illegally wiretapped Trump Tower?
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"In Russia, the operator installs it and have no control over what is being wiretapped," he said.
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House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes and top Democrat Adam Schiff (both of California) aren't buying Trump's claims that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters today that he gave Trump no reason to think he'd been wiretapped by Obama. Rep.
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Wiretapping Trump's baseless claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower before the election just crossed the pond.
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And there might be perfectly reasonable explanations about why four to seven or more campaign people were wiretapped.
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The drug kingpin was also suffering from hallucinations, depression and claimed the government has wiretapped his jail cell.
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It shows you that he was right when he said that he was being wiretapped at Trump Towers.
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The defence argued that neither money nor a bribe were discussed directly in wiretapped conversations between the men.
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" Schiff countered, "Once again, no evidence to support the president's claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor.
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Trump claimed earlier this month, without evidence, that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City last year.
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Comey also said that, contrary to Trump's claims, Barack Obama had not wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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NBC News caused quite a stir after reporting that Cohen, Trump's personal lawyer and fixer, had been wiretapped.
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Trump earlier this month tweeted that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City ahead of the election.
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And Comey also shot down Trump's claims he was wiretapped in Trump Tower by former President Barack Obama.
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The US House intel committee says it's seen "no evidence" that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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The wiretapped conversations between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak remain classified, and Ms. Yates avoided even acknowledging them.
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He cut one with CBS short after a question about his unsubstantiated claims that his campaign was wiretapped.
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On Wednesday, Horowitz further undercut Trump's shocking accusation in 2017 that his phones were wiretapped at Trump Tower.
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"The embarrassment to everyone in the communities ... ," the man said, according to an excerpt of a wiretapped conversation.
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Trump offered no evidence in a series of tweets on Saturday that President Barack Obama had wiretapped him.
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Feature He has been wiretapped by the F.B.I. and grilled by congressional investigators over his suspected Russia connections.
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On March 4, Trump alleged — without providing any evidence — that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Clapper served under President Obama, and publicly refuted Trump's claim Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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"I think it's been pretty clear that there's no evidence to suggest that" Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, Hurd said.
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The most notorious example are March 2017 tweets in which Trump alleged that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump's campaign.
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It's a charge that almost sounds like it validates Trump's recent tweeted accusations that President Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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Applying a device to make sure he can't be wiretapped, Jorge says that the cartel knows where they are.
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President Donald Trump claimed that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City prior to the presidential election.
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I believe that President Trump, then Donald Trump, he was surveilled, he was wiretapped and it was a mole.
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Congressional leaders investigating the claim have repeatedly said they've seen no evidence that Trump or Trump Tower was wiretapped.
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First, he denied the existence of any evidence to support Trump's claims of being wiretapped by President Barack Obama.
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Congress is looking into Trump's unsubstantiated claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him as part of its Russia probe.
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In March, Trump claimed in a series of tweets that Obama ordered Trump's phones wiretapped during the presidential campaign.
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MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election, which the FBI and National Security Agency said this week is unsubstantiated.
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Trump has previously tweeted that President Obama had him wiretapped, a claim the FBI found no evidence to support.
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The interview ended abruptly when Dickerson questioned the president about the unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump's campaign.
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Many of the wiretapped phone calls that were submitted into evidence raise questions about the limits of Italian jurisdiction.
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NBC News reported Thursday that Cohen was wiretapped, citing two people with knowledge of legal proceedings related to Cohen.
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The "wiretapping" spin In March 2017, Trump was roundly ridiculed for saying that the Obama administration "wiretapped" his campaign.
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Charges against the two men were dismissed when a judge found that the government had wiretapped Ellsberg, possibly illegally.
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More than two years later, there is still no evidence that Trump's phones were wiretapped during the 2016 campaign.
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The F.B.I. also recruited informants inside peace organizations, wiretapped phones, broke into homes and offices and infiltrated various groups.
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In court, prosecutors played recordings of wiretapped phone conversations involving the Nine Trey godfather, Mr. Jones, discussing Mr. Hernandez.
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One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House.
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The question of whether Mr. Obama wiretapped Mr. Trump has now been answered clearly and strongly in the negative.
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For example, a huge majority of Republicans believe Mr. Trump's basically insane charges about being wiretapped by President Obama.
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The law states that the telecom operation is "not able to determine what data is being wiretapped," he said.
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But he has stressed that he did not have evidence to support Mr. Trump's claim of being personally wiretapped.
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Comey also said he was unaware of any evidence supporting Trump's allegations that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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During wiretapped conversations with an F.B.I. informant, Mr. Farrokh discussed beginning his journey from a smaller airport to evade scrutiny.
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In a wiretapped conversation, prosecutors said, Quiles allegedly talked about each kilogram of heroin selling wholesale for $56,000 to $57,000.
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In addition to his home being raided, Manafort was reportedly wiretapped by investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election.
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In addition to his home being raided, Manafort was reportedly wiretapped by investigators before and after the 2016 presidential election.
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And if you don&apost believe me, why did Obama and the Obama administration allegedly have journalists wiretapped and surveilled.
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Watch live "I have no information that supports those tweets," says FBI director about Trump's allegation that Obama wiretapped him.
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Mike Rogers discredited Trump during a congressional hearing over accusations that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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Trump began claiming then — without presenting evidence — that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City during the 2016 race.
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Last week, Yudhoyono said he believed his phone was "wiretapped" by government agencies, comparing the surveillance to the Watergate scandal.
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And then Comey said there was no evidence of Trump's repeated assertion that Trump Tower was "wiretapped" by Barack Obama.
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Evidence against the 50-year veteran of the Chicago city council include wiretapped cell phone conversations, according to the newspaper.
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Cuomo confronted Giuliani about Trump's past claims about Trump Tower being "wiretapped" by the Obama administration ahead of the election.
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Trump tweeted earlier this month without providing evidence that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City before Election Day.
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While conducting his research, Campana also analyzed wiretapped telephone conversations, testimonies, interviews with police task force members, and smugglers' backgrounds.
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Trump himself has provided no evidence that Trump Tower, where he lived and ran his campaign, was wiretapped by Obama.
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FBI head James Comey also formally shot down Trump's claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped his building during the campaign.
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Hoyer also slammed Spicer for saying Trump did not specifically mean he was wiretapped, but was talking about surveillance in general.
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President Donald Trump's closest political allies have flatly denied his baseless claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the campaign.
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Sunday denied any suggestion that Trump Tower communications were wiretapped before the election.
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Putin weighed in on the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, repeating the US President's previous unverified claim that he had been wiretapped.
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Earlier this month, Gizmodo reported that the FBI "can neither confirm nor deny" that it had ever wiretapped an Amazon Echo.
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Separately on Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters he did not give Trump a reason to believe he was wiretapped.
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President Trump said he felt his claims to have been wiretapped by the Obama administration were "somewhat" vindicated by Nunes' claims:
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And Trump was reportedly incensed by Comey's refusal to defend his accusation that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the presidential election.
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" Trump early Saturday wrote on Twitter that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election, but did not provide any evidence. "Terrible!
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" As for Trump's assertion that Obama wiretapped him, Nunes repeated Friday what he has said previously, telling reporters, "That didn't happen.
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Both Nunes and Schiff maintained that the discovery — whatever it entails — does not substantiate the president's claim that Obama wiretapped him.
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Supporters of the government accused an investigating judge of breaking the law by releasing wiretapped conversations between Lula and his associates.
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Previously, he kicked up dirt about former President Obama in an attempt to support Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped his campaign.
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Trump offered no evidence when he alleged, in a series of tweets on Saturday, that President Barack Obama had wiretapped him.
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In one wiretapped conversation, Mr. Mered boasted that he had paid $40,000 to Libyan jailers to free a group of people.
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Schiff said the hearing will also address Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower just before the November election.
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That was shortly before Trump went off the handle when Dickerson asked about his claims of being wiretapped by Barack Obama.
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The FBI wiretapped Ingalls and searched her home without a warrant to determine the extent of her collaboration with the Nazis.
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Johnson said Napolitano used information that he posted in an online discussion board, and falsely said British intelligence wiretapped Trump Tower.
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He made headlines last year when he tweeted, without evidence, that the former president had wiretapped phones used by his campaign.
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But budget and health care considerations faded in the glare of Donald Trump still insisting that Barack Obama had him wiretapped.
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Innocent Americans were wiretapped without court authorization and spied on, as intelligence bureaus sought to determine their national and political allegiances.
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Nearly three-quarters of Republicans believe President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped him last year, a new poll shows.
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And he said he had no information to support Mr. Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped.
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He then explicitly denied having any indication that Mr. Trump was wiretapped by British intelligence at the request of Mr. Obama.
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He also said he had no information to support Mr. Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped.
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The suspicions of political motives behind Lava Jato reached fever pitch after he leaked wiretapped phone conversations between Lula and Rousseff.
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NBC's original report that the feds had wiretapped Cohen, and by extension the White House, drew a furious reaction from Giuliani.
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But trial testimony indicates Waite admitted giving the foot rubs in text messages and in a wiretapped police interview, the newspaper reported.
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Trump alleged on Saturday without evidence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.
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Earlier this month, Trump alleged -- without providing evidence -- that Obama ordered his phones to be wiretapped at Trump Tower during the campaign.
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And we don't know if he really believes Obama wiretapped him, or whether the President is really as paranoid as he sounds.
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President Trump's stunning tweets saying he'd just learned Barack Obama wiretapped his Trump Tower office before the election went out on Saturday.
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Pichet said the force's internal affairs department subsequently launched a seven month criminal investigation during which the officers were followed and wiretapped.
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However, the Trump administration called for an investigation Sunday on whether former president Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during last year's election.
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In March for example, Trump asserted without evidence President Barack Obama had ordered Trump Tower in New York wiretapped - something Obama denied.
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The junior Senator from Nebraska is out with a statement on President Trump's allegations today that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower:
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He also is one of the few members of congress that seems to take Trump's allegation that Obama illegally wiretapped him seriously.
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But, even if that was the case, it would not validate the claim that Trump made that he was wiretapped by Obama.
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He continues to labor under a self-inflicted controversy regarding his unproven allegation that President Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign.
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When the director replied that it was, the White House chief of staff asked whether the F.B.I. had ever wiretapped Mr. Flynn.
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The Times said the intercepted calls in its report were different from the wiretapped conversations between Flynn and the ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.
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Streisand's tweets over the weekend followed President Trump's unsubstantiated claims that President Obama wiretapped phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Then came the president's impulsive tweet-storm early on Saturday morning, March 4, when he accused his predecessor of having him wiretapped.
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Atop the list: Possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election and President Trump's countercharge that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Fox News has reportedly pulled Andrew Napolitano from the air indefinitely after he claimed that a British intelligence agency wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Remember, the whole Susan Rice thing is a way for Trump to justify his thoroughly debunked assertion that Obama had "wiretapped" him.
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One controversial tweet mentioned in the meeting was Trump's unsubstantiated claim in March that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in 2016.
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We've also debated whether or not President Barack Obama wiretapped Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign, a claim that FBI officials dismissed.
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In July, Mered told an associate, in a wiretapped call, that he had smuggled between seven and eight thousand people to Europe.
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And he has roused Republicans with claims that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower and improperly circulated information about Trump aides obtained through surveillance.
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These plans were confirmed by a wiretapped-phone call Rahim had with a co-conspirator the morning of his death, officials said.
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NBC reported that Cohen was wiretapped in the weeks leading up to an FBI raid that took place last month targeting him.
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The notion that Trump or his associates were wiretapped directly — much less at the behest of President Obama — has not been substantiated.
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During a Wednesday interview on "CBS This Morning," Graham discussed Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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Adam Schiff, the committee's top Democrat, each reiterated that they had seen no evidence that Trump Tower was wiretapped during the campaign.
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"Keep two bucks so you can get yourself something to eat," Chiki said, in what turned out to be a wiretapped conversation.
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Trump has railed against the dossier and the Russia investigations, and claimed last year that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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" Alexander also asked if Trump's unsubstantiated allegations that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election are "phony or real.
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Prosecutors do this all the time to help jurors understand what's really going on in wiretapped conversations between seasoned and wary gangsters.
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It has not reported that those associates themselves have necessarily been wiretapped, but it has reported surveillance of Russians, which is commonplace.
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President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that he had been wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama is also likely to come up.
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On Capitol Hill, above, the Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee cast doubt on Mr. Trump's claim that he was wiretapped.
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Mr. Comey, above, also said he had no information to support President Trump's claim that President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped.
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During one of Benichou's wiretapped conversations, Neyret's wife Nicole can be heard chastising him for spoiling her husband with his lavish gifts.
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" Speaking to CNN's Kate Bolduan, Blinken said Trump's allegations that former President Barack Obama ordered Trump be wiretapped are "virtually impossible to believe.
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According to the report, this intelligence was discovered during an investigation that began after Trump had claimed, without evidence, that he was wiretapped.
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The White House had seized on Nunes' remarks to bolster Trump's unproven assertion that Obama wiretapped his campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Trump Tower.
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Hayden also said it was not possible for former President Obama to have wiretapped now-President Donald Trump while Obama was in office.
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That media narrative is being tagged to President Donald Trump -- the latest revolving around a series of tweets alleging Obama wiretapped his phones.
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He also said the FBI has "looked carefully" and found "no information" that supports Trump's allegation that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.
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And that you were wiretapped by Barack Obama because he was afraid you would win and become the best President in American history!!!!
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The Department of Justice confirmed in a motion filed Friday that there was no evidence Trump was wiretapped by Barack Obama, CNN reports.
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Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly told associates in March that President Trump was "crazy" for suggesting former President Obama had wiretapped him.
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Most recently, the White House ran with a unproven claim that British intelligence officials had wiretapped Trump Towers on behalf of President Obama.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer then quoted Napolitano's remarks about GCHQ Thursday while defending Trump's assertions that Obama wiretapped him last year.
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The FBI director refused to "characterize" tweets Trump posted earlier the month alleging Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City last year.
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Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Thursday he "absolutely" thinks President Trump's accusations that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign are believable.
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Keep in mind, Trump still hasn't provided any evidence for his claims that Obama wiretapped him, let alone that the U.K. was involved.
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The allegations were seen by critics as a way to substantiate Trump's unsubstantiated claims that former President Obama "wiretapped" him during the campaign.
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The FBI director also revealed the Department of Justice has "no information" backing Trump's claims former President Obama wiretapped him last year. Rep.
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The FBI director also revealed the Department of Justice has "no information" backing Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped him last year.
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And he reiterated that there is still no evidence that Trump was wiretapped by President Obama or anyone else, as Trump had alleged.
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The White House struggled to answer questions Monday about President Trump's unsubstantiated assertion that President Obama illegally wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign.
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Not to mention the fact that Trump, without evidence, recently accused Obama of committing a crime with his claims that he was wiretapped.
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But he said he still has seen no proof to support President Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the campaign.
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The material was to bolster Trump's claim that he was wiretapped during the 2016 campaign on the orders of President Barack Obama's administration.
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Lewandowski's comments came after CNN reported Tuesday that investigators had wiretapped Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, before and after the 2016 election.
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There, he received classified intelligence that, he suggested, at least partly justified Mr. Trump's unsupported claim that Mr. Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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First, the committee's chairman, Representative Devin Nunes, attempted to provide cover for President Trump's false allegation that he was wiretapped by his predecessor.
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Cohen-Watnick has since become embroiled in the controversy over Trump's unproven claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped his presidential campaign last year.
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He wiretapped the actors Sylvester Stallone and Keith Carradine, and did work on behalf of Chris Rock and Courtney Love, among many others.
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In the wiretapped conversation, the man was advocating for a return to that bloody time of overt intimidation of authorities and citizens alike.
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U.S. investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the 2016 election, CNN reported on Monday.
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Binney has also told Fox News that Trump was "absolutely right" to allege that the Obama administration "wiretapped" his phones in Trump Tower.
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The two issues became politically linked last year when the president tweeted that the Obama administration had "wiretapped" his campaign at Trump Tower.
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In a barrage of tweets this month, Mr. Trump accused President Barack Obama of having him wiretapped at Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Former NSA attorney and Brookings Institution fellow Susan Hennessey wonders who determines which lawbreakers deserve to be wiretapped, if not a democratically elected government?
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Comey challenged Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama's administration wiretapped him as part of its probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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The guard later made a statement to Italian authorities, who wiretapped the phones of the Iuventa crew and bugged the bridge of the ship.
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The FBI director will also likely be asked about President Trump's claim that Barack Obama had the sitting president wiretapped during the 2016 election.
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You know, it&aposs the same thing as what people said -- when the president said that he felt that his campaign had been wiretapped.
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Before the scandal broke, Dávila and a number of other journalists claim to have been wiretapped by police officers looking to smother the story.
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Last year, Gizmodo's own Matt Novak filed a Freedom of Information Request to find out if the FBI had ever wiretapped an Amazon Echo.
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AN OFT-QUOTED story in Italy tells of a wiretapped conversation between two criminals a few days after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Think about the arc of claiming 6 years ago that President Obama wasn't a U.S. citizen to claiming Saturday that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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On Britain: Rogers was asked about Trump's repetition of an unsubstantiated claim that Britain's top spy agency wiretapped Trump on behalf of President Obama.
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Former National Security Agency and CIA Director Michael Hayden dismissed President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Trump and Comey's relationship was strained early on, in part because of the president's explosive and unsubstantiated claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Comey also shot down President Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by former President Obama, saying he has no evidence to corroborate that assertion.
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But he said he still has seen no proof to support President Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Further complicating matters, on Thursday, it was revealed that the FBI had wiretapped Cohen and intercepted at least one call with the White House.
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Earlier this year, Trump claimed in a series of unsubstantiated tweets that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower while he was running for office.
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Comey also said he'd seen no evidence of Trump's claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped on the orders of his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
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" CNN reported that Manafort was wiretapped before and after the election "including during a period when Manafort was known to talk to President Trump.
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And the details and words reported by CNN last night do nothing to exonerate Trump from his still-spurious claim that he was wiretapped.
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Trump has asked the congressional committees to also investigate his explosive claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the election.
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I still remember when he took to Twitter, with no proof, that President Barack Obama had ordered Trump Tower wiretapped during the 2016 election.
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The charges stemmed from a yearslong investigation involving wiretapped calls, physical surveillance and even listening devices installed inside an office where mob associates worked.
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And it's where Trump has fired off some of his most controversial tweets, like his baseless claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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He was doubling down, once again, on his much-disputed claim that his calls, too, had been wiretapped on orders of President Barack Obama.
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Separately, the White House said Mr. Trump "firmly believes" that former President Barack Obama had him wiretapped, though the F.B.I. director has said otherwise.
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The White House had examined a transcript of a wiretapped conversation that Mr. Flynn had with Mr. Kislyak in December, according to administration officials.
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Specifically, he has pressed the FBI on its surveillance activities during the 2016 campaign, appearing to pursue the president's allegation that he was wiretapped.
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A young White House official who owes his job to Trump personally begins sifting through wiretaps right after the president claims he was wiretapped.
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Even if the jury didn't believe the cooperators, the government showed several videos, dozens of wiretapped phone calls, and hundreds of intercepted text messages.
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During his tenure, he said, he listened to many wiretapped phone conversations of young people considering whether to follow a more extreme form of Islam.
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However, I think the roots of the firing are elsewhere: in Comey's decision to contradict the president on whether the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.
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And that's what Conway's microwave claim all comes back to: A reference to Trump's allegations that Obama wiretapped his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Also during the press conference, Trump hinted at his belief that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Well, last year we thought you would have to be wearing a tinfoil hat to believe President Trump when he said he had been wiretapped.
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His name has been in the news recently as the first to openly question whether the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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The monologue came as Spicer attempted to defend Trump's erroneous claims that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Down: Four days later, Trump tweets that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, launching one of the biggest, ongoing scandals besides the investigation into Russia's election meddling.
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The heads of the Senate Intelligence Committee have seen no evidence that the Obama administration "wiretapped" Trump Tower, according to a brief statement issued Thursday.
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The courts agreed with Sally Yates' opposition to the immigration ban, and no one (except maybe Sean Hannity) believes that the FBI wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Trump, for his part, said he felt partially vindicated for claims he made earlier in the month that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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The last time Comey testified in the Capitol, you may recall, Donald Trump had recently made wild accusations that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Flake also called for Trump to apologize for his claim earlier this year that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower before the November elections.
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But at least for now, it's both legal and common — and could provide an explanation for Trump's claim that former President Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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Trump, who became president in January, tweeted earlier this month that his Democratic predecessor had wiretapped him during the late stages of the 2016 campaign.
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The tweet appears to build off of President Trump's claim, presented without evidence, that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during last year's presidential race.
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Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) on Tuesday said the White House is "in denial" over President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Over the weekend, Trump tweeted a claim — without any evidence — that the former president wiretapped Trump Tower to monitor him ahead of the November election.
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The idea for this puzzle was inspired when Donald Trump made the unfounded charges that he was being wiretapped by President Obama at Trump Tower.
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Coppola allows the surreal, abstract rhythm of disembodied, wiretapped voices to weave themselves throughout Hackman's advancing psychological breakdown like lost characters from a Beckett play.
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Barack and Michelle Obama were all smiles Sunday ... their first public outing since President Trump alleged the former prez wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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Mr. Trump seized upon the news as vindication of his unfounded claim that Trump Tower in New York was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama.
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President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort is demanding an investigation into a report that he was wiretapped during and after the 2016 election campaign.
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Finally, there have been no FBI apologies offered to former Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page after the FBI wiretapped him for more than a year.
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Giuliani went on the offensive after an NBC News report that Cohen's phones had been wiretapped, capturing at least one call between Cohen and Trump.
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The Times article does use the word "wiretap," but it does not support Mr. Trump's assertion that Mr. Obama ordered phones at Trump Tower wiretapped.
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Without offering any evidence, he has insisted, for example, that Mr. Obama wiretapped his telephones and that millions of noncitizens voted illegally for Hillary Clinton.
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The Times report came around the same time Monday afternoon that CNN reported the government wiretapped Manafort's phone during and after the 2016 presidential election.
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Asked Monday whether, in light of Mr. Comey's testimony, the president stood by his assertion that he was wiretapped, Mr. Spicer said that he did.
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Yet Mr. Nunes also told reporters on Wednesday that he had no evidence to support Mr. Trump's claim that he was directly or personally wiretapped.
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"El Chapo Got Wiretapped Because The Cartel's IT Guy Screwed Up." [Vice / Keegan Hamilton] There was a lot of thought behind the style — and controversy.
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After months of having his calls wiretapped, Singer ended up cooperating with investigators last September, helping them secretly record incriminating conversations he had with parents.
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Top Republicans in Congress and FBI Director James Comey have said publicly in recent weeks that there is no evidence that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump.
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This is just the latest legal headache for Sarkozy, who was already investigated in July 2014 after authorities secretly wiretapped conversations between him and his attorney.
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The teenager was given a score of 6003 out of 2600—and, according to a wiretapped conversation, Huneeus thought he'd paid for a few more points.
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Does this, when we are talking in the press about whether the president was wiretapped or not, is this good for you or bad for you?
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The FBI may not have actually wiretapped Michael Cohen, but what if authorities had actually listened in on President Donald Trump's embattled personal attorney's phone calls?
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There is no evidence that Barack Obama ever wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, the Department of Justice said in a court filing on Friday.
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Mike Rogers went to the Hill to testify about Russian influence in the 2016 election and President Trump's claims that the Obama administration had wiretapped him.
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The president has also recently played defense over his allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the 2016 election, which he offered without evidence.
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As part of its probe, the House panel is also looking into Trump's accusations that President Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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The next morning, according to the AP, Trump was given a collection of media clippings that included a Breitbart story alleging that Obama had wiretapped Trump.
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One example: Trump's tweet that he was being wiretapped by President Obama during the 2016 campaign has been debunked by everyone in a position to know.
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Trump said he felt somewhat vindicated by the news, after spending weeks on defense about his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him.
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He didn't like that Comey didn't have his back on his unproven claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 election.
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President Trump was angry that former FBI Director James Comey would not back his claims that former President Obama wiretapped him, according to a new report.
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And the week before, while the big media brands chased Trump's baseless tweets that Obama had wiretapped his offices, "SNL" stayed focused on the real issues.
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Sanders' initial rise in air time came just after Trump tweeted that while Barack Obama was president, his administration wiretapped Trump's phones during the presidential election.
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It provided a reasoned legal analysis of the department's obligations to guard information lawfully obtained from wiretapped phone conversations, grand jury investigations and private credit reports.
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Conservative radio host Mark Levin has warned that the Obama administration orchestrated a "silent coup" against Trump, claiming Obama wiretapped and spied on the Trump campaign.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday said that President Trump won't withdraw his claim that former President Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election.
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Wade was suspended indefinitely before the NCAA Tournament ... after Yahoo Sports reported that wiretapped conversations revealed Wade discussed making a "strong-ass" offer to a recruit.
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Mr. Nunes had gone public with that information after Mr. Trump falsely claimed on Twitter that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the transition.
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According to press reports, other figures around Trump were also wiretapped, though this has never been publicly addressed by intel agencies or the DOJ's inspector general.
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According to CNN, CBS and other media reports in September 2017, the FBI wiretapped the former head of Trump's campaign, Paul Manafort, after Trump was elected.
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If Mr. Trump's tweet alleging that Trump Tower was wiretapped on the orders of President Barack Obama was untrue, Mr. Trump is guilty of a slur.
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President Trump was speaking "Americanese" when he claimed without proof that he was wiretapped by President Obama, CNN commentator and Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord said Monday.
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As president, Trump has regularly railed against the intel agencies, including spreading spurious allegations that his offices at Trump Tower were wiretapped by the US government.
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It's the theater for vainglorious, vindictive, impulsive Trump, and it was the realm in which he made the wild accusations that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Mr. Nunes's remarks, which appeared to be deliberately vague, gave President Trump cover for his baseless claim that President Barack Obama had illegally wiretapped his phones.
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The FBI again wiretapped Manafort after the election, after the bureau became concerned about communications between Manafort and people it believed to be Russian intelligence operatives.
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Adam Schiff, have seen any evidence that Obama wiretapped Trump last year and want the Justice Department to respond to their requests for information by March 20.
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The comments by Nunes do not appear to support Trump's claims, debunked by FBI Director James Comey, that he was wiretapped by his predecessor President Barack Obama.
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What the Times revealed was a White House official who owes his job to Trump personally sifting through wiretaps right after the president claimed he was wiretapped.
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Specifically, Trump has repeatedly alleged -- without any evidence -- that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign with the help of a British spy agency.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday he never gave Trump any reason to believe the GOP candidate had been wiretapped by the Obama administration during the campaign.
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Back in Washington, President Donald Trump continues to suggest, without proof, that Obama wiretapped him and Republicans are busy trying to dismantle his signature health reform law.
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Prosecutors in Taiwan indicted Ma Ying-jeou, the country's president until last year, in connection with the illegal disclosure of wiretapped conversations during his time in office.
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The directors of the FBI and National Security Agency can find no evidence that supports allegations made by the current president that his predecessor wiretapped his phone.
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Comey was first asked to fact-check Trump's March tweets in which he claimed President Obama wiretapped his offices in Trump Tower during the campaign season. Terrible!
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Giuliani did note that "at one time" Trump had also thought he had been wiretapped, but that there has not been any proof that was the case.
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Transcripts of wiretapped phone calls form part of the narrative, elliptical conversations that might be some sort of code, or might be just friends and relatives talking.
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Federal government investigators grew suspicious of Page's Russian contacts and a trip he took to Moscow during the campaign, so they wiretapped him in late October 20173.
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You can see the difference between satire and traditional TV journalism in the coverage of Trump's false claim that President Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.
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It&aposs just -- to just put it in perspective again, the Obama administration wiretapped and had informants inside the political opponent&aposs campaign, Donald Trump&aposs campaign.
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The claim originates with, natch, Trump, who tweeted in early March that he had just been informed that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday backed key lawmakers' statements that no evidence supports President Donald Trump's claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped before the 2016 election.
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Trump, who became president in January, tweeted earlier this month that his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him during the late stages of the 2016 campaign.
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What was interesting about Decarlo was that he was wiretapped at his headquarters, which was known as the Barn, for almost three years between 1961 and 1963.
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The Department of Justice has "no information" to support President Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower, FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday.
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Part of the evidence against LiButti included wiretapped conversations in which he talked about flying with Trump in his copter and offering advice on running the casinos.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that President Trump must apologize for "disgraceful and incendiary" claims that former President Obama wiretapped him last year.
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Unlike previous presidents, Trump is also the first to frequently use his personal handle to make controversial comments, including claims that former President Barack Obama "wiretapped" him.
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While some of his campaign staffers may have been under FBI surveillance, there's no evidence that Obama was personally involved or that Trump himself was wiretapped. 4.
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There was a report that he'd been wiretapped, and emails revealed that he tried to set up private briefings for a Russian billionaire while chairing Trump's campaign.
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Last year, Italian police heard a madam, on a wiretapped call, tell an associate that one of her victims had broken her juju oath, and would die.
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It was at this same hearing that Mr. Comey testified that he had "no information" to support Mr. Trump's claim that Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped.
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"Everything we're talking about really boils down to the fact that we have this war on our hands," Dr. King said in yet another wiretapped phone call.
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And Fox News yanked one of its top legal experts, Andrew Napolitano, after he alleged that a British intelligence agency had wiretapped Trump Tower at Obama's request.
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Trump said he felt "somewhat vindicated" by Nunes's announcement, although the California lawmaker stressed that he still did not believe that Trump was wiretapped by his predecessor.
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On Saturday, the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, asked the Justice Department to publicly reject Mr. Trump's claim that his agency had wiretapped his phones.
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The warnings about government subterfuge only grew louder after Trump made the unsubstantiated claim that President Obama ordered Trump Tower to be wiretapped during the presidential race.
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers who have been briefed in classified settings by Mr. Comey have said there is no evidence that Mr. Obama had Mr. Trump wiretapped.
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Seventy-four percent of Republican respondents said it is "very" or "somewhat" likely Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in 2016, according to a CBS News poll released Wednesday.
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By not commenting on Comey, Trump was also staying mum on his unfounded claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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Nunes told CNN he had been working on nailing down the surveillance information before Trump's unsubstantiated claim earlier this month that he was wiretapped by President Barack Obama.
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Comey also said he had no information to support claims by Trump that he was wiretapped by Obama -- made in a series of explosive tweets two weeks ago.
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On Monday, FBI Director James Comey told Congress he was not aware of any evidence to support Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by Obama during the campaign.
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The site has also claimed that Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Michael Flynn were all wiretapped as part of this plot as early as 2015.
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The Department of Justice faced a deadline today to show evidence to the House Intelligence Committee on Trump's unproven claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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In an extraordinary House Intelligence Committee hearing, Comey also gave the strongest rebuke yet to Trump's explosive claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him ahead of the election.
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Even after a string of rebuttals, President Donald Trump on Friday seemed to stick by his claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him ahead of the 2016 election.
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House Intelligence Committee chair Devin Nunes said Sunday he has still seen no evidence to show Trump Tower was wiretapped after reviewing information from the Department of Justice.
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Democrats believe the president wanted to release the information as a way of buttressing Trump's discredited claim that President Obama "wiretapped" him at Trump Tower during the transition.
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But combined with hard evidence like wiretapped phone calls, intercepted text messages, and Chapo's own handwritten drug ledgers and notes, a quick conviction seemed like a no-brainer.
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The president has spent the last several days leveling attacks at Obama, starting Saturday morning when he claimed without citing proof that Obama wiretapped him during the campaign.
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Shelia Jackson Lee: Jackson Lee first raised the possibility of impeachment in March after President Trump made unfounded claims that he had been wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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A Wall Street Journal editorial is calling into question President Donald Trump's credibility by his insistence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, despite near-universal doubt.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday the president is "extremely confident" that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will produce evidence that Obama wiretapped him last year.
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Van Hollen's comments came after Senate Intelligence Committee officials on Thursday said they had seen "no indications" the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Another cringe-worthy exchange came when Trump, who's made unsubstantiated claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, joked about his predecessor also spying on the German leader.
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When Trump claimed, without evidence, that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in early March, Cohen-Watnick combed through old intelligence intercepts, seemingly in an attempt to vindicate him.
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The defendant's counsel has asked the court for a scientific comparison of his client's voice with that of Mr Mered, who was wiretapped by Italian police in 2014.
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In 1964, the FBI illegally wiretapped Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's presidential headquarters and plane and conducted background checks on his campaign staff for evidence of homosexual activity.
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But the president has made numerous unfounded statements on the social media platform, most notably his claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before last year's election.
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Cohen-Watnick was a player in the controversy over Trump's evidence-free allegation that his predecessor, President Obama, had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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In a series of tweets earlier this month, Trump claimed that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration, but provided no proof to back up the explosive accusation.
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Democrats clamored for Nunes's recusal, arguing that he had acted under pressure from the White House to substantiate the president's apocryphal claim that former President Obama "wiretapped" him.
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Owen Putman: He is also a former special agent of the D.E.A., who testified that more than 1,000 wiretapped calls were used in an investigation involving El Chapo.
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That's the first thing to remember when trying to divine the meaning of Trump's accusation that he was wiretapped on Obama's orders: Trump tells a lot of lies.
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They also have asked the FBI and the Justice Department to produce any information that supports Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign.
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According to him, ISIS has a hotel, Barack Obama has a mysterious past, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a "war zone," Obama wiretapped him, and he won the popular vote.
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" Trump made the claim Saturday, alleging without offering any evidence that his predecessor wiretapped the phones in Trump Tower, where his campaign was headquartered during the 2016 campaign. "Terrible!
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On Wednesday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a Republican and a Trump appointee, said that he had not given the President reason to believe Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Spicer seems unclear whether the White House believed Trump was the target of a counterintelligence investigation, which would support Trump's claims that he was wiretapped under a FISA warrant.
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Comey also said Monday that the Department of Justice and the FBI have "no evidence" to support President Trump's unfounded and widely-dismissed claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him.
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Over the weekend, Trump leveled the explosive and unsubstantiated allegations via series of tweets that the Trump Tower was wiretapped on orders of Obama a month before the election.
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Washington (CNN)House minority leader Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of using "authoritarian" tactics by claiming -- without any evidence -- that President Barack Obama ordered that he be wiretapped.
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In several TV appearances Monday morning, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended President Donald Trump's claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones during the 2016 election.
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First, he had press lackey and generally angry man Sean Spicer suggest that the British equivalent of the NSA, the GCHQ, were the ones who may have wiretapped Trump.
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The President abruptly ended an interview with CBS reporter John Dickerson when pressed on his unsubstantiated claims that his Manhattan skyscraper was wiretapped ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
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Trump said Nunes' comments about the surveillance helped justify his insistence, made without evidence, that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower in New York, his campaign headquarters.
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A classified report prepared by the Department of Justice for Congressional investigators does not support President Trump's claims that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama, government sources told CNN.
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FBI Director James Comey reportedly asked the Department of Justice to issue a statement Saturday rejecting President Trump's claims that former President Obama and his administration wiretapped Trump's phones.
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And can he acknowledge that some of the tweets he sends -- like the "tapes" one or the one alleging President Obama wiretapped him -- are simply ill-advised or wrong?
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As President, he claimed he was being wiretapped by the previous administration without evidence and seemed to suggest he may have tapes of conversations with FBI chief James Comey.
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In three weeks the Trump gambit built on allegations that he was wiretapped, had been sidelined, along with his biggest supporter -- and the House Russia investigation was chugging along.
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But those sorts of assertions by Republicans raised the question about whether what Nunes did was intended to give Trump cover for his discredited claim that Obama "wiretapped" him.
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The contents of the transcript of the wiretapped phone call between Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyac were made public through leaks to The Washington Post earlier this month.
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The Intelligence Committee is also demanding that the Justice Department provide evidence for Trump's claim that former President Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower during the campaign, under threat of subpoena.
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If the president's wild Twitter tirade about being wiretapped in his Manhattan home were actually true, Bharara—as the relevant federal prosecutor—likely would have been aware of it.
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It's easy to forget, amidst the swirl of constant misdirection and insanity, that this is actually a continuation of the flimsy and paranoid claim that Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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Trump aides have also called on Congress to investigate if the Obama administration wiretapped the Trump campaign as part of a larger probe into Russia and the 2016 election.
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He had to apologize to the Supreme Court in 2016 for releasing wiretapped conversations between Mr. da Silva and President Dilma Rousseff, his lawyer, and his wife and children.
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Trump has claimed that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, but the House and Senate Intelligence committees have said they haven't found any evidence to back that up.
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" In a statement, American Oversight said the Justice Department filing "confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama 'wiretapped' him at Trump Tower.
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A report Monday revealed that the federal government wiretapped Manafort during and after the 2016 election, with one of the warrants centering around his work for the Ukrainian government.
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A former policy adviser to President Obama is firing back at President Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, saying it didn't happen — at least not under Obama's orders.
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Lawmakers threatened subpoenas and vented about the lack of evidence behind Mr. Trump's accusation on Twitter that President Barack Obama had wiretapped phones in Trump Tower during the campaign.
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SCHIFF: Director Comey, I want to begin by attempting to put to rest several claims made by the president about his predecessor, namely that President Obama wiretapped his phones.
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He later stood in front of the White House to insist to reporters that Obama's aides had members of the Trump team under illegal surveillance, if not technically wiretapped.
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He was mad Comey didn't back him up on his ludicrous claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, even when people on his TV were criticizing him for it.
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Washington (CNN)Former White House officials are strongly refuting President Donald Trump's stunning allegation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election.
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Washington (CNN)A Trump campaign fundraiser who also served on the transition team continued to stoke the administration's debunked claim Wednesday that Trump Tower was "wiretapped" during the 2016 campaign.
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The White House had cited the report by a Fox News analyst as it sought to defend President Donald Trump's charge that Obama's administration wiretapped him during the 2016 election.
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The court document says Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents learned about the inquiry by Sanchez because they had flipped a Sinaloa cartel member and wiretapped the cartel's elaborate communications network.
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Top members of the House Intelligence Committee said Wednesday they have seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped ahead of the 2016 election.
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On Thursday, the bipartisan leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said they did not have evidence to support Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped him ahead of the 2016 U.S. election.
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In the meantime, it has asked the Department of Justice to turn over any evidence it has on Trump's allegation this month that he was wiretapped ahead of the election.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a Politico panel Thursday that "there is no evidence" that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, but he is leaving the conclusion for Congress to decide.
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The president later told reporters he felt "somewhat" vindicated by Nunes's findings, even though they did not corroborate his claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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The Democratic lawmakers go on to detail the events of the weekend, after President Trump tweeted an unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential election.
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He announced last week that he'd seen evidence that Trump's transition team was incidentally surveilled after the election, appearing to back up Trump's claim that former President Obama "wiretapped" him.
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The Tigers head coach was suspended indefinitely before the Big Dance ... after Yahoo Sports recently reported that wiretapped conversations revealed Wade discussed making a "strong-ass" offer to a recruit.
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Comey said during Monday's hearing the Department of Justice (DOJ) has "no information" supporting Trump's tweets earlier this month that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City last year.
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer blasted the media for its coverage of Russian meddling in the 85033 presidential election and President Trump's claim that the previous administration wiretapped him.
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" According to the German newspaper Bild, starting in 1979, encrypted StB files say, "the phone calls between Ivana and her father were to be wiretapped at least once per year.
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And then there's the President's claim that he was wiretapped in Trump Tower on orders of then-President Obama, whose investigation led back to the Southern District of New York.
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The top Republican and Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee opened Monday's hearing on Russian election meddling by immediately disavowing President Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama.
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Both the Rice report and reports of incidental surveillance have been used by the Trump administration as evidence to back up his accusations that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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I read transcripts of wiretapped Spanish conversations — the cartel's nickname for Mr. Sharp was Tata, slang for Grandpa — and pored through brittle copies of his decades-old day-lily catalogs.
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But under a little-known policy, the government allows itself to extend the collection of personal material far beyond the wiretapped target … to people "two hops" away from that person.
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FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing he had seen no evidence to support a claim by Trump that Obama had wiretapped his campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Trump Tower.
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Mr. Comey's hearing touched on Judge Napolitano's allegation — which both President Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, repeated — that British intelligence officers wiretapped Mr. Trump at Mr. Obama's request.
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Social science research suggests that Mr. Trump's insistence that he was wiretapped, despite the lack of evidence, is part of a pattern that plays well in a highly partisan environment.
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President Trump, under bipartisan fire for his apparently baseless insistence that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower in October, pronounced himself "somewhat" vindicated by Mr. Nunes's assertion.
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Recall it was on Twitter where Trump asserted that Obama had wiretapped him during the campaign — an assertion that has since been thoroughly discredited by the nation's top intelligence officials.
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He defended the agency through the political minefield of the last year and pushed back against Trump's accusation that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, which implicated the FBI.
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By the end of the day, the comments were at the center of a new partisan firestorm over Trump's initial — and widely debunked — claims that Obama had wiretapped his communications.
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If you're concerned about being wiretapped, consider turning off your phone and putting it in the microwave ( temporarily, with the microwave off), or leaving your phone in the other room.
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In a Monday morning interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway doubled down on President Donald Trump's baseless claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in October.
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Photo: APCNN has learned US authorities wiretapped Paul Manafort, the spin artist for dictators who worked a tumultuous four-and-a-half month term as Donald Trump's campaign manager in 2016.
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When NBC News reported Thursday that federal authorities wiretapped President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen, who's been infamously involved in the Stormy Daniels scandal, it sent everyone into a tizzy.
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President Donald Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower on the eve of the election are "destructive to our democracy," former U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns said on Monday.
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The lawyers said a decision by Moro to publicly release Lula's wiretapped conversations in March "caused public embarrassment," leading to lawsuits in which the judge himself could eventually be held liable.
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The accusations against Nunes arose after President Donald Trump tweeted in March, without giving evidence, that former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, had wiretapped him as he competed for the presidency.
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Trump told the New York Post in an interview Tuesday that he's had no recent contact with Obama, and maintained his claim that he was unlawfully wiretapped by the previous administration.
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In 2016, the FBI declined to tell Paleofuture whether it had ever wiretapped an Amazon Echo, and in March 2017, Amazon handed over Echo recordings potentially relevant to a murder investigation.
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Taking to Twitter early in the morning, Trump fired off claims — without providing evidence — that Obama had wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower in New York to monitor his campaign's communications.
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Why did he insist that these communications had nothing to do with the Trump team's suspected ties to Russia, or Trump's claim that he had been "wiretapped" by the Obama administration?
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First and foremost there is Trump, the erstwhile birther who has continued to promote conspiracy theories from the White House, like his claim in March that he was wiretapped by Obama.
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Chaffetz said that while the Oversight Committee won't conduct a probe into voter fraud, it will look into the president's recent allegations that his campaign was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Additionally, CNN reported Tuesday that US investigators had wiretapped Manafort under a secret court order before the 2016 election and into this year -- when Manafort was known to talk with Trump.
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Nunes later briefed President Donald Trump on the matter, and seemed to give cover to the President's unsubstantiated allegations that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the campaign.
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Trump has pushed discredited conspiracy theories that the FBI under President Barack Obama spied on him and his campaign and wiretapped him in Trump Tower, his signature property in midtown Manhattan.
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Trump's young administration has also been roiled by controversy, including allegations of ties to Russia, his accusations that Obama wiretapped him during the campaign and feuds with the media and others.
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His claim of being wiretapped has been totally debunked by, among others, FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and even House intelligence committee Chair Devin Nunes.
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Plus, there still exists considerable evidence -- from the Department of Justice, the former FBI director and the former DNI -- that Trump's claim of being wiretapped is totally unproven and without evidence.
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And now the topic of wiretapping is in vogue once again due to recent claims by President Trump that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump tower during the most recent election cycle.
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As we reported ... Felicity and Lori -- recorded on wiretapped calls discussing the scheme with ringleader William Rick Singer -- are accused of paying bribes to help get their kids into elite schools.
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In the case of the Flores twins, their wives wrote a book detailing how they secretly wiretapped Chapo and other Sinaloa cartel heavyweights before turning themselves in to U.S. law enforcement.
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The White House said on Monday that Trump still has confidence in Comey despite his assertiveness in challenging Trump's claim that the administration of former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him.
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First, FBI director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee that there was no evidence to back up Trump's Twitter claims that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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The intercepted calls are different from the wiretapped conversations last year between Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump's former national security adviser, and Sergey I. Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the United States.
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Blagojevich was convicted in 2009 over his efforts to sell off the vacant Senate seat of Barack Obama, and he was recorded in wiretapped phone calls looking for the highest bidder.
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White House officials had been seeking evidence to bolster a claim that Mr. Trump made March 4 on Twitter that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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Mr. Ma is accused of having illegally ordered an investigator to leak details of wiretapped conversations between Mr. Wang and Mr. Ker to Taiwan's premier at the time, Jiang Yi-huah.
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Comey also said during a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee Monday that he had "no information" to support Trump's allegations that former President Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower.
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He proved so once again last Saturday when he claimed he had been wiretapped by President Barack Obama, and called him a "sick guy" who had conducted a Watergate-style operation.
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Armed with intelligence that some Republicans said bolstered President Trump's widely disputed claim of being wiretapped by the Obama administration, Mr. Nunes bypassed Democrats and went directly to the White House.
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Trump has claimed that President Obama wiretapped his phone during the presidential campaign (a charge the FBI denied) and that several million people voted illegally in the election (also: no evidence).
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U.S. investigators wiretapped Manafort, a former Trump campaign chairman, both before and after the 2016 election, CNN reported Monday, due to their suspicions over his ties to Ukrainian and Russian operatives.
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BARTIROMO: I want to know what this tells us about the Robert Mueller probe, because you go back to Carter Page, and here is the guy who was actually wiretapped and surveilled.
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He faced more questions about the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and President Donald Trump's unfounded accusation that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower before the 2016 election.
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Lindsey Graham said Wednesday he is ready to subpoena the intelligence agencies for evidence that would prove President Donald Trump's claims that he was wiretapped last year by then-President Barack Obama.
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Two senators have asked the Department of Justice and FBI for any information they have related to President Donald Trump's accusation that President Barack Obama wiretapped him ahead of the 2016 election.
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Comey also denied a recent allegation by President Trump that President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, a claim that has been linked to an earlier report by Fox News.
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The White House asked Congress Sunday to probe whether former President Obama abused executive-branch powers during the 2016 election following Trump's accusations that he wiretapped Trump Tower while still in office.
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Even when Trump asserted without proof that his predecessor had "wiretapped" Trump Tower, Obama relied on an aide to knock down the charge in a statement rather than speak out publicly himself.
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The House Intelligence Committee heard Comey's testimony in regard to allegations made by President Donald Trump that President Obama wiretapped him and the extent of Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump stands by his allegation that former President Barack Obama ordered Trump Tower to be wiretapped during the 2016 campaign, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Thursday.
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The Times said that, in return, Trump was furious when Comey publicly refused to back his claims that he was wiretapped during the 2016 campaign before the House Intelligence Committee in March.
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When he said that Obama wiretapped his campaign, it was "a little bit of a hunch," Trump told Fox's Sean Hannity in April — but Sanders stuck with the line until the end.
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When asked by New Jersey's the Bergen Record on Sunday if Trump Tower had actually been wiretapped, Conway suggested the CIA could have used "microwaves that turn into cameras" to surveil Trump.
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Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW Nowhere is the irony greater than in his baseless claim that Obama had him wiretapped.
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It sure looked like Nunes was providing political cover for the president, who had claimed that Barack Obama had "wiretapped" Trump Tower—a claim that everyone (including Nunes!) has acknowledged is bunk.
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It began last March when California Representative Devin Nunes held a strange White House press conference to claim there was proof to support Trump's allegations that Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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But for many Germans, the biggest betrayal came with the 2013 revelation that the National Security Agency had been systematically spying on their country, and had even wiretapped Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone.
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John Chase and Bob Secter, who covered the trials for The Chicago Tribune, noted last week that most of the evidence that felled him came from Blagojevich's own comments in wiretapped conversations.
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Wiretapped conversations show that one of defendants and the coach had a conversation about how this scheme had to be "be very low key" because the university was already under NCAA sanctions.
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Wiretapped conversations reveal that the gang's national leadership ordered its 311 "programs," or chapters, to turn over all the money earned in a single, typical week, which happened to be in April.
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He has gone on to assert that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, a claim that his own Justice Department refuted, and that he would not benefit from his tax-cutting plan.
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The heads of multiple U.S. government agencies just stated definitively that they've found no evidence to back up Donald Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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The president created a controversy in early March when he tweeted without giving evidence that Obama had wiretapped the campaign as the businessman took on Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
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Letter To the Editor: I call for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate President Trump's claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election.
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The president claimed last year that the Obama administration improperly wiretapped members of his presidential campaign and transition team, though the White House has not provided any evidence to support that claim.
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That performance was so highly regarded we'd still be hearing about it, had not Unscripted Trump gotten out of bed at dawn last weekend and tweeted that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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It was at least partially an effort to retroactively validate Trump's ridiculous claim of being "wiretapped" by Barack Obama; there is no principle at stake here other than covering your boss's ass.
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Devin Nunes in late March, in what's now widely seen as an attempt to deflect blame away from President Trump's baseless claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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His persistent questions — specifically about Mr. Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his campaign had been wiretapped by the Obama administration — so agitated the president that Mr. Trump abruptly walked out of the room.
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The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee says he has seen no evidence to support Trump's allegation he was wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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But in the coming days, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- known as the FISA court or FISC -- will get more attention after President Donald Trump claimed he was wiretapped during the Obama administration.
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In Richmond, Virginia, Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters that he never gave Trump any reason to believe he was wiretapped by the previous administration, according to a transcript provided by CBS News.
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" The apology came after British intelligence officials took the rare step of issuing a public statement to deny the White House claim that the U.K. wiretapped Donald Trump, calling the accusation "utterly ridiculous.
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Comey also delivered an implicit rebuke to President Donald Trump, saying that he had "no information" to support claims by the President that he was wiretapped on the orders of predecessor Barack Obama.
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Nunes later hedged his comments and said that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have been wiretapped and that Trump had raised "valid questions" about how his aides were listened in on.
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Early this morning, President Donald Trump sent out a string of tweets, alleging that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower to undermine his campaign, and questioned the legality of such an action.
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Nunes's public presentation of this information was also incredibly confusing, done in a way that makes little sense unless he was deliberately trying to obscure the truth about whether the president was wiretapped.
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Comey publicly refuted Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower before the 2016 U.S. election, saying neither he nor the Department of Justice have evidence to back the president's explosive tweets.
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After his briefing with Nunes, around 3 pm, Trump told reporters that the Congress member's revelations "somewhat" vindicated his claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, even though they did nothing of the kind.
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In fact, what we know is that the FBI, the former director of national intelligence and even House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes, R-California, have said definitively that Trump was not wiretapped.
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Now, the question of whether Americans can trust Trump is again a dominant political theme after he was caught in a lie over claims that he was wiretapped by his predecessor Barack Obama.
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The president has quite a habit of reposting material he learned on far-right media, and now the AP is picking up another example: his claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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In an interview with The Record columnist Mike Kelly at her home in Alpine, NJ, Conway doubled down on the notion that President Obama might have wiretapped Trump's headquarters, without offering any proof.
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His specious claim that he was wiretapped by President Obama and his public embrace of various strongmen, from Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Philippines' Rodrigo Duterte, have all been self-inflicted wounds.
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No Muslim travel ban — in the sense that the attempt to enact one is bogged down in the courts — and no evidence to support the incredible claim that President Obama had Trump wiretapped.
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Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is defending President Trump's claims about being wiretapped by the Obama administration, saying during an appearance on Fox News's "The O'Reilly Factor" that his own phone had been tapped.
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But Trump has taken it to new heights by first alleging that Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower and now blaming Obama for civilian attacks in Syria—which occurred four years after a Russia-U.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former top U.S. intelligence official rejected President Donald Trump's accusation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped him even as the White House on Sunday urged Congress to investigate Trump's allegation.
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Two ranking members of the Senate Intelligence Committee said there's nothing to back up President Donald Trump's tweeted series of allegations two weeks ago that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones.
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Trump has access to the best, most classified intelligence in the country and presumably could have used it to, you know, check if the accusation that Barack Obama had wiretapped him was credible.
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Alex also was involved in setting up an encrypted phone network for Chapo, which was later wiretapped when a systems engineer who worked for the Cifuentes family became an informant for the FBI.
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The intercepted calls are different from the wiretapped conversations last year between Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, and Sergei I. Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States, the Times said.
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The U.S. Department of Justice asks for more time to respond to a request from lawmakers for evidence about Trump's allegation that then-President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election campaign.
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One Gambino soldier, Joey Orlando, was overheard on a wiretapped call that was disclosed at the hearing complaining about Mr. Cali, whom he described as "Jackie's guy," becoming a captain in the organization.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain on Monday called for President Donald Trump to release any evidence supporting his claim the Obama administration wiretapped him while probing Russia's influence in the 2016 election.
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Both were suspended last season after Person and an accomplice said in wiretapped conversations that they had paid the players' mothers around $12,000 apiece in the hopes of steering them toward an agent.
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Officials must present the FISA court judge with probable cause that the person being wiretapped is an agent of a foreign power, like a spy, or an agent of a foreign terrorist organization.
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Two senior U.S. senators asked the FBI and Justice Department for any information they have on President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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Days later, Trump tweeted an explosive claim that President Barack Obama had wiretapped him while he was a candidate, immediately killing off any lingering political dividend of his first big address to Congress.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) sent documents to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday in response to a request for evidence backing up President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Leaders on the House panel sent a letter to the DOJ last week asking for evidence related to Trump's claim earlier this month that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower ahead of the presidential election.
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Horowitz said his inquiry found no evidence that the FBI wiretapped anyone other than Carter Page, when asked about President Trump's past claims that former President Obama had his "wires tapped" in 2016.
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Trump has claimed without evidence that his predecessor wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower, and has in recent months alluded to the possibility that Obama was aware of the surveillance of his campaign.
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About two weeks after Mr. Cali's death, Mr. Fiore bragged in another wiretapped conversation about how he could take revenge on students who had hit his son at school, a government filing said.
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Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Wednesday that he found no evidence the FBI wiretapped anyone other than former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in connection with its Russia investigation.
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But by midafternoon, after returning from golf, he appeared to realize he had gone too far, although he still believed Mr. Obama had wiretapped him, according to two people in Mr. Trump's orbit.
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The White House has insisted that there is nothing left to investigate about Russia and has instead asked Congress to look into Mr. Trump's claims that he was wiretapped by President Barack Obama.
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Using quotations from wiretapped conversations, the complaint detailed how the father and son worried about Bharara's investigation of them even as Senator Skelos continued to try to steer jobs and cash to Adam.
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For the first time, Mr. Spicer addressed explosive and unproven allegations Mr. Trump made over the weekend that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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Lawmakers are also poised to delve into Trump's claims that the Obama administration "wiretapped" Trump Tower ahead of the election, which the president lodged on Twitter two weeks ago but have remained unsubstantiated.
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Trump's scurrilous accusations against President Barack Obama — that he ordered his phones in Trump Tower wiretapped — are being met with increasing disbelief, having no demonstrable basis in fact, at least as of yet.
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Uber security employees occasionally impersonated drivers to gain access to chat groups, illegally recorded phone calls, and secretly wiretapped and tailed executives at rival companies over the course of 2016, the letter said.
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The move comes a day after Trump posted a series of tweets alleging, without presenting any evidence, that Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower in the weeks leading up to the November election.
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Trump's response further fueled a controversy about his claims he was wiretapped by Obama -- first made on Twitter two weeks ago -- which have been rejected by senior members of House and Senate Intelligence committees.
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The background: Back on March 3, President Trump sent out a series of early-morning tweets claiming, with no evidence, that Barack Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower back during the presidential campaign.
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FBI director James Comey will go before the House Intelligence Committee at 10 AM EST on Monday for the first time since President Trump angrily tweeted that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Trump, who in early March tweeted without giving evidence that Obama had wiretapped his campaign while the businessman competed against Democrat Hillary Clinton, said he was "somewhat vindicated" by Nunes' statement about the surveillance.
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The Hill video team previews a busy week on Capitol Hill as lawmakers tackle fallout from President Trump's accusations that he was wiretapped and House Republicans unveil their plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
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Comey and the top bipartisan members of the Senate and House intelligence committees have said they see no evidence to back Trump's explosive claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him ahead of the election.
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After the Trump White House had lumped British spies into his unsubstantiated accusation that he was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama, multiple US officials and their British counterparts scrambled to defuse the tension.
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Nunes made it clear that this did not mean that Trump was "wiretapped" by former President Barack Obama, as Trump had claimed, but it did give him some political cover for his paranoid ravings.
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He wouldn't specify what country he was in, but his brother's wiretapped call—the one that referred to Mered's pending return from Dubai—suggests that he was probably caught in the United Arab Emirates.
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Despite the fact that several US and international intelligence agencies have debunked Trump's claims that President Barack Obama had him wiretapped during the election, the president said he felt "somewhat" vindicated by Nunes' findings.
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He probably looks at Rod Blagojevich — wiretapped by the FBI discussing all sorts of corrupt ideas, and then convicted and sent to prison — and thinks, There but for the grace of God go I.
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Donald Trump told one of the latter during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel where he faced repeated questions about his baseless claim that he had been wiretapped by President Obama.
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Manafort could have been another possible easy target as someone to wiretap surrounding Trump, because the FBI reportedly had wiretapped Manafort years earlier in a separate investigation in which he ultimately was not charged.
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In wiretapped conversations, the men celebrated the terrorist attack in London on March 22, in which a Briton mowed down pedestrians, killing three of them, and then fatally stabbed a police officer outside Parliament.
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Today, President Trump is sticking with his own facts — his claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him during the election — in the face of testimony to the contrary by the F.B.I. director, James Comey.
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" Trump levied the bombshell accusation in 2017 against former President Barack Obama, claiming that Obama personally ordered his phones to be wiretapped before the 2016 election, and has repeated versions of it since. "Terrible!
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To the Editor: On the heels of the most definitive statement to date disproving the claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election, Donald Trump continues to maintain his unsubstantiated claim.
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The jurors — who were kept anonymous over concerns they might be threatened or killed — heard hundreds of wiretapped phone calls and saw thousands of intercepted text messages where Chapo openly discussed his drug business.
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They were listening to the phone call — his line had been wiretapped — and had been tracking his movements for months after an anonymous tipster said Mr. Cornejo was a pimp for at least one woman.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer says he has no reason to think Trump does not support FBI Director James Comey after a dispute over the president's allegation without evidence that he was wiretapped last year.
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Democrats focused on links to Russia House Democrats on the panel hammered away on reports of the Trump campaign's communications with Russian officials as well as the President's tweets alleging his predecessor wiretapped his phone.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman and the ranking Democrat on the committee said Thursday that they've seen no evidence of Trump's accusation that he was wiretapped last year by his predecessor.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr and the panel's ranking Democrat, Mark Warner, said Thursday that they've seen no evidence of Trump's accusation that his predecessor wiretapped his phones last year.
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Trump has spent his first months hamstrung by a series of events, such as his debunked insistence that Trump Tower was wiretapped by President Barack Obama and the lengthy saga over campaign ties to Russia.
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It was reported earlier this week that Manafort was wiretapped by the federal government at some points in 2016 and 2017, and that special counsel Robert Mueller's team has told him to expect an indictment.
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During his press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer seemed to backpedal on President Donald Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower ahead of the 2016 election, CNN reports.
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The conventional wisdom about President Trump's accusation that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower is that the president should never have discussed the issue at all and certainly should not have mentioned President Obama by name.
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Two senior senators asked the FBI and Justice Department on Wednesday for any information they have on President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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The Republican leader of the powerful committee investigating Trump's claims that President Barack Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower came under intense criticism from his Democrats for going to the president and the media before the committee.
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In a wiretapped call, a cooperating witness told Zangrillo that the USC crew coach agreed to back Zangrillo's daughter as a recruit of the crew team and help get her admitted as a transfer student.
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"I think the president can obviously express his views and emotions, but nothing has changed since the director of the FBI said there was no evidence that Trump Tower had been 'wiretapped,'" McCain told TODAY.
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A Democratic senator asserted Thursday that President Trump has lost credibility after heads of two congressional intelligence panels said they have seen no evidence backing up his claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Nunes, despite admitting that the Trump transition team was not the "target" of surveillance and that Trump Tower was not wiretapped, could only have kickstarted his strange and bewildering string of events for that purpose.
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Napolitano was pulled off the air by Fox this week after he claimed on-air that a British intelligence agency wiretapped Trump Tower — a claim the White House repeated, drawing criticism from the United Kingdom.
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The House Oversight committee chairman says he has not seen any evidence to back President Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower and eavesdropped on the president's phone calls during the 2016 election.
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Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she could not "verify the validity" of an NBC report that President Donald Trump's longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen was wiretapped by federal investigators.
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"He wants everybody to believe that he told the truth when he said he was wiretapped," added Waters, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, accusing him of lying and calling for his impeachment.
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Mr. Trump has insisted, for instance, that the F.B.I. investigation into his campaign staffers' contacts with Russia is meaningless "fake news," and that the real issue is whether President Obama wiretapped him before the election.
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Speaking on Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co.," Lewandowski pointed to reports that Manafort had been wiretapped before and after the election by U.S. investigators acting under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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Speaking on Fox Business Network's "Varney & Co.," Lewandowski pointed to reports that Manafort had been wiretapped before and after the election by U.S. investigators acting under the authority of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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Paul Krugman Two weeks after President Trump claimed, bizarrely, that the Obama administration had wiretapped his campaign, his press secretary suggested that GCHQ — Britain's counterpart to the National Security Agency — had done the imaginary bugging.
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Although his approval ratings have been low from the start, his popularity began a slide after the first week in March, when he insisted, without any evidence, that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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That investigation has now descended into a partisan sideshow, and the White House on Friday returned to the unproven claim that started it all: Mr. Trump's accusation that he was "wiretapped" by President Barack Obama.
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On Wednesday, Sarkozy's defense team said the use of wiretapped remarks gleaned for an investigation into illicit campaign financing to prosecute unrelated charges of corruption contravened a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
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FBI Director James B. Comey has asked the Justice Department to refute President Donald Trump's claims that his phones were ordered wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama, The New York Times reported, citing senior American officials.
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This is worse in telecommunications systems, as those systems are specifically designed to be wiretapped, so a little bit of sabotage in the specific wiretap-enabling routines and it would be very, very hard to detect.
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This is such common practice that an Eritrean smuggler, whose phone calls were wiretapped by Italian police in 2013 as part of prosecutor Ferrara's investigation, described negotiations with abductors as a routine part of his job.
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But, all of these things, if it&aposs true, if it&aposs true, if it&aposs true, reminds me of -- they&aposve wiretapped me up Trump Tower, which turns out not to have been the case.
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A year ago, he delivered a well-received speech to Congress, only to render that an afterthought when he began alleging that former President Barack Obama had ordered his phones wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump has not backed down from his claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, despite several members of Congressional intelligence committees saying there is no evidence.
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" It's now clear to every fair-minded observer that Trump's claim that he was wiretapped was false — even Nunes said as much in his press conference, stating, "There was not a physical wiretap of Trump Tower.
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For his part, Trump continues to insist that the entire story is a media fabrication designed to distract from the real story -- that he was wiretapped by the Obama Administration during the course of the campaign.
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A more glaring example took place back in March, when Comey was read and disputed tweets from Trump about the current President's conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama had ordered him "wiretapped" during the 2016 campaign.
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More than that, Comey joined the long list of senior figures in both parties who have discredited Trump's charge that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phone at Trump Tower — "No evidence" of that, he said.
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Democrats have accused the chairman of acting as an agent of the White House, perhaps to provide substantiation for Trump's claim that the Obama administration "wiretapped" him during the campaign — a charge Nunes has vehemently denied.
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The simplest explanation is that Nunes received a speck of evidence that could be packaged in such a way that, if you squint real hard, vindicates Trump's paranoid tweets about being wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Although the feds are said to have stopped probing his work in Ukraine last year, they reportedly wiretapped him again later in 2016 into early 2017—potentially capturing, among other conversations, his exchanges with Donald Trump.
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"It is very clear in the poll that overwhelming majorities of the country take leaks and potential political unmasking of members of the Trump campaign in wiretapped conversations merit full and even independent investigation," Penn said.
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The prosecuting judge, Sérgio Moro, demonstrated strong animus against Lula on a number of occasions—including his release of illegally wiretapped conversations between Lula and then president Dilma Rousseff, his lawyer, and his wife and children.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) have asked the White House to offer by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped.
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The Chairman is extremely concerned by the possible improper unmasking of names of U.S. citizens, and he began looking into this issue even before President Trump tweeted his assertion that the White House had been wiretapped.
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During two wiretapped phone calls in February and March 2500, Manaf and the man he believed to be the New York drug dealer discussed linking up to send heroin to the US, according to the complaint.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he "very seldom" regrets anything he tweets, brushing off questions about his claims without evidence that his predecessor, Democrat Barack Obama, wiretapped him during last year's presidential campaign.
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Mr. Sarkozy, who has argued repeatedly that the investigations against him are politically motivated, was infuriated that investigators had wiretapped conversations with his lawyer, but the appellate court ruled in 2016 that the taps were legal.
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The next morning, Mr. Nunes told reporters he believed Mr. Trump or those around him had been incidentally caught up in foreign surveillance, fueling Mr. Trump's debunked claim that President Barack Obama had "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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"I've got this thing and it's fucking golden," the then-governor infamously said in a wiretapped phone call as he discussed what he might be able to trade in return for appointing someone to the seat.
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When there was no evidence for his claim that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower, Mr. Trump demanded that members of Congress put their work aside in order to dig up "facts" to support it.
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Through it all, Mr. Trump repeated a series of misleading assertions and falsehoods, such as when he seemed simultaneously to walk back and yet double down on his accusation that President Barack Obama had wiretapped him.
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The news comes one month after it was revealed Manafort was wiretapped by the U.S. government during and after the 2016 campaign under a warrant allegedly focused on his work consulting for the government of Ukraine.
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Later that year, in a wiretapped phone call, Sloane allegedly boasted to Singer about misleading USC's advancement office about the reason for the $50,000 payment to USC as part of the scheme, according to the affidavit.
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Comey, for example, undermined Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had wiretapped his campaign in the runup to the election, saying the FBI had "no information" supporting it during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in March.
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Two people familiar with the matter say Trump's White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and Obama's former White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, have spoken since Trump claimed, without evidence, that Obama had him wiretapped.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his baseless accusation that President Barack Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower, saying the media reports and the initial proof he had at the time made his claim appropriate.
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But that's what happened Monday when FBI director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee, saying no evidence had been found to back up the president's claim that Obama had wiretapped the phones at Trump Tower.
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After refusing to shake the Chancellor's hand (help) and suggesting that they were both wiretapped by President Obama (please help), people had their Twitter fingers ready for Trump - and let's just say, they did not hold back.
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An FBI investigation dubbed "Operation Varsity Blues" relied on wiretapped conversations to expose dozens of wealthy parents — including famous actresses and wealthy executives — who allegedly scammed their kids into elite colleges like USC, Yale, and Georgetown University.
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Correction: A previous version of this article cited an NBC News report saying federal prosecutors had wiretapped the phones of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and recorded at least one phone call between him and the White House.
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Spicer — donning a green tie for St. Patty's Day — said President Trump "still stands by" his claims that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, even after the Senate Intelligence Committee announced that they found no indication of that happening.
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"The chairman is extremely concerned by the possible improper unmasking of names of U.S. citizens, and he began looking into this issue even before President Trump tweeted his assertion that Trump Tower had been wiretapped," Langer said.
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It cites a recent Politico story about Trump receiving false information on climate change, as well Trump's claims of voter fraud and his assertion that Obama wiretapped him — claims rejected by then-FBI director James B. Comey.
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The White House had on Wednesday seized on Nunes' remarks, which had cited anonymous sources, to bolster Trump's unproven assertion on Twitter this month that President Barack Obama wiretapped his election campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Trump Tower.
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Paul is a steadfast supporter of President Trump's false claim that his campaign was "wiretapped" by the Obama White House and now believes that he, too, may have been on the receiving end of some malicious bugging.
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The top lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee have asked the to turn over by Monday any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped during the 2016 presidential race — an explosive accusation leveled at former without providing proof.
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So far, he's made the preposterous claim that Obama "wiretapped" him as part of a Nixon-esque plot to steal the election and the false claim that Obama released 122 Guantanamo prisoners who then reengaged in terrorism.
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Controversy machine, couch-sitter, and presidential aide Kellyanne Conway is back in the fight after addressing accusations that the Trump campaign was wiretapped, as the president alleged during an early morning tweet storm over a week ago.
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And how different is it for Trump to use Twitter to bizarrely suggest, among other strange things, that President Obama had him wiretapped than it was for him to use tabloid trickery in his New York days?
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The New York Times reported that Cohen-Watnick began reviewing "highly classified reports" about intercepted communications of foreign officials after Trump said on Twitter earlier this month that he was "wiretapped" by his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
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" Asked if he stood by his earlier claims on CBS, Trump said his accusations that his predecessor "wiretapped" Trump Tower, despite FBI Director James Comey's assertion that there is no evidence to support this, were his "opinion.
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A CBS poll out today finds that 47 percent of Americans — and a full 74 percent of Republicans surveyed — believe it's "likely" or "somewhat likely" that President Donald Trump's offices were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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That late-night excursion has led some Democrats to accuse Nunes of colluding with the White House on his announcement in an effort to vindicate Trump's claim that his presidential campaign was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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One senior law enforcement official from the Obama administration, who has direct knowledge of the F.B.I. investigation into Russia and of government wiretapping, said that it was "100 percent untrue" that the government had wiretapped Mr. Trump.
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WASHINGTON — In a striking repudiation, Republicans on Wednesday threatened subpoenas and vented openly about the lack of evidence behind President Trump's tweet that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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In March 2017, a CBS poll found that 47 percent of Americans — and a full 74 percent of Republicans surveyed — believed it's "likely" or "somewhat likely" that President Trump's offices were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Local television showed tens of thousands of supporters clad in red marching for Rousseff, who has faced growing calls for her impeachment since anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro released a wiretapped conversation of her and Lula this month.
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Over the weekend, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway tried to defend the president's unproven claims that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration by citing a story she read about how gadgets can be hacked to spy on you.
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US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election as part of an FBI probe that has grown to include Russia's meddling in the election, CNN reported on Monday.
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Then, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House, Trump joked that both of them had been wiretapped by Obama, a reference to documents leaked by Edward Snowden that revealed American intelligence had spied on Merkel's phone.
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The former top U.S. intelligence official rejected Trump's accusation that Obama wiretapped him during the 21 presidential campaign, even as the White House urged Congress to investigate the allegation, which Trump made on Saturday without offering supporting evidence.
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In sworn testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey said there was no evidence to Trump's claims that Barack Obama wiretapped him and Trump Tower, as the current president alleged in a series of tweets earlier this month.
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Burr also said he did not now plan to follow the lead of other congressional committees that have requested any warrant applications or court documents related to Trump's assertion that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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FBI Director James Comey on Monday publicly refuted President Donald Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower before the 2016 election, saying neither he nor the Justice Department have evidence to back the president's explosive tweets.
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Also in his last Capitol Hill appearance, before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey also delivered a definitive repudiation of Trump's claims that the Obama administration had wiretapped the president's New York offices in advance of the 2016 elections.
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" The Times's front-page headline for the story in a mid-January print edition read, "Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides," with two sub-headlines: "Examining Russian ties" and "Business dealings of campaign advisers are investigated.
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Trump has stood by his unsubstantiated claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower even after the FBI director and bipartisan chairmen and the Senate and House Intelligence communities said they saw no evidence to back the accusation.
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After he alleged that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the election, Trump was asked during an interview with Fox News why he didn't ask intelligence agencies for evidence that he was surveilled by the former administration.
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If Trump's campaign or advisers were indeed being wiretapped, the most likely legal path for the Obama administration to do so would be to have the Justice Department ask the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to eavesdrop.
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Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers addressed the unsubstantiated claim—repeated by the White House—that British spies wiretapped Donald Trump last year at the behest of President Barack Obama.
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It all started during a briefing on Thursday when Press Secretary Sean Spicer mentioned a Fox News commentator who claimed on air that British intelligence had wiretapped President Trump during last year's election, at the request of Obama.
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He initially did not brief his committee Democrats about the intelligence, and critics suggested that Nunes was trying to provide political cover for Trump's unsubstantiated charge that former President Barack Obama had him wiretapped during the campaign season.
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During an interview with The Bergen Record, Conway discussed those wiretapping allegations and, during one exchange when the questioner asks point blank about those allegations, made the following claim: Q: Do you know if Trump Tower was wiretapped?
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In a series of calls wiretapped by the F.B.I., Mr. McGlashan discussed photoshopping pictures of his son to make it appear that he was a football player to help him gain entry to the University of Southern California.
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News that North Korea had fired four ballistic missiles over the weekend and U.S. President Donald Trump's unverified claims that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had wiretapped his correspondence from Trump Tower spurred buying of the safe-haven yen.
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In my fantasy, former President Barack Obama challenges President Trump to meet him on the set of Fox News at noon and demands that Mr. Trump present the factual basis for his allegation that Mr. Obama wiretapped him.
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" He added, "The chairman is extremely concerned by the possible improper unmasking of names of U.S. citizens, and he began looking into this issue even before President Trump tweeted his assertion that the Trump Tower had been wiretapped.
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The new investigation is based on a wiretapped conversation of a former Temer aide, Rodrigo Rocha Loures, who, according to court documents, discussed shaping the decree in return for bribes channeled from a port operator to the president.
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So to recap: Trump tweets about how Obama wiretapped him, Nunes gets info about the Trump team getting swept up in surveillance of foreign officials, and Nunes tells Trump about it — but Nunes' news came from White House employees!
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee told CNN Friday that, after meeting with the FBI director, he has not "seen any evidence" to back Trump's claims that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration during the campaign.
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HEMINGWAY: When the president said that Obama had wiretapped him, everyone in the media said that was not just outrageously untrue, but that would be a huge scandal if it were true that there was spying on his campaign.
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For instance, the next time you want to say that President Obama wiretapped your phones, and then claim that lawyers should get involved, and then calling the ex-president bad and sick, that's a great time to use threading.
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Her reemergence this week allowed Republicans to deflect attention away from the questions surrounding Trump's connections to Russia during last year's presidential election and instead focus on President Trump's as-yet unproven claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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In much anticipated public remarks, FBI Director James Comey on Monday is expected to offer the most definitive repudiation yet of President Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped his New York offices in advance of the November election.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) had asked the Department of Justice to provide any evidence showing Trump Tower was wiretapped by this Monday afternoon.
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Comey affirmed that Trump and some of his associates were under investigation by the FBI for their contact with Russia during the campaign, and that Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama was absolutely and unequivocally false.
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It's not a stretch to compare this new angle on the conspiracy the President feels is pitched against him to his unfounded allegation, also fueled by Nunes, that he had been surveilled and wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama.
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" (Ferrara denies saying this.) One afternoon in Palermo, I had lunch with Francesco Viviano, a sixty-eight-year-old Sicilian investigative reporter who says that he has been wiretapped, searched, or interrogated by the authorities "eighty or ninety times.
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If Moro had any evidence linking Rousseff or Lula to actual corruption, it is likely that some of it would have been released by now, given that he has leaked personal and private wiretapped conversations just to embarrass them.
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The audio was part of several wiretapped phone conversations of judges and their associates that were recorded by police as part of a criminal probe before being leaked to Peruvian media, the judge who authorized the wiretapping has said.
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We now know that Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was wiretapped under orders from the Obama administration and that the FBI has raided his home as part of the special counsel probe of Russian interference in the election.
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"You can surveil people through their phones, through their—certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways," Conway told the Bergen Record, when asked about President Trump's baseless allegations that Obama had wiretapped the Trump campaign headquarters.
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Late Friday night, ESPN reported that the investigation had also produced 3,000 hours of wiretapped calls from Dawkins's phone, in which one prominent head coach, Arizona's Sean Miller, discussed paying a top recruit, the current Wildcats freshman DeAndre Ayton.
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In March, most of the state's case was taken over by the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn, which used the district attorney's wiretapped recordings to make new allegations against Mr. Gallman and the lawyers that he worked with.
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"The circus freak show about the Russian connection and the president's lies about being wiretapped by the Obama administration have to be the most maddening developments in the most maddening two months in modern political history," says Mr. Rosenthal.
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Ms. Farkas served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia from 2012 to October 2015, and had left the administration well before 2016, when Mr. Trump claims, without proof, Mr. Obama wiretapped his phones.
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The White House refuses to give up on its unfounded claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election, even as the country's leading law enforcement and intelligence officials flatly stated that they have no evidence of such spying.
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Washington (CNN)President Trump's accusation Saturday that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower was a serious allegation, and one he made without proof, but to many on the online right, it was the latest example of the Deep State.
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Adam Schiff, the Democratic ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Comey also told the committee that he had no proof that backed up Trump's unfounded claim that Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
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On Sunday, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that no intelligence agencies he supervised wiretapped Trump, nor did the FBI obtain a court order through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor Trump's phones.
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Washington (CNN)The speaker of the House, the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman and the ranking Democrat on the committee said Thursday that they've seen no evidence of President Donald Trump's accusation that he was wiretapped last year by his predecessor.
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A longtime friend of Donald Trump says he hasn't seen the President as angry as he was when he talked to him about Trump's unsubstantiated and widely disputed allegations that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 election.
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Forced to explain his allegation that President Barack Obama "wiretapped" Trump Tower, President Donald Trump misquoted the New York Times, said he "wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Twitter," and talked about how much money Celebrity Apprentice made for NBC.
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The recent bad blood between the two men seems to stem from Mr Comey's insistence that he had not a shred of evidence to back the president's allegation, made on Twitter, that Mr Obama had wiretapped his offices in Manhattan.
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" While on "Meet The Press," Mulvaney also addressed the backlash to President Trump's assertions that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election, and the president's subsequent comment to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, "at least we have something in common.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, lashed out on Tuesday at reports he was wiretapped by federal authorities, and his spokesman sent out a statement demanding a leaks probe and suggesting the surveillance was politically motivated.
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An agitated Sean Spicer on Thursday defended President Donald Trump's claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him, reading a barrage of news reports to try to back up the accusation even after top lawmakers on congressional intelligence committees refuted it.
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Washington (CNN)From the moment President Donald Trump tweeted that he had been "wiretapped" by President Barack Obama during the course of the 2016 election, he and his senior aides have been desperately searching for evidence that makes that allegation true.
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Britain dismissed the report as "nonsense" after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer quoted it in a briefing, part of the administration's continued defense of Trump's unproven contention that Obama had wiretapped him at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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But alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign became part of the committee's investigation after the president's claim early this month that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — making Nunes's decision to cut out members of his own committee unusual. Rep.
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A normal administration would take heed from the type of rebuke delivered Monday by FBI Director James Comey, who testified to Congress that there was no evidence for President Donald Trump's claim that Barack Obama had him wiretapped last year.
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But as with his unfounded claims that then-President Barack Obama "wiretapped" his phones at Trump Tower, the President has taken a kernel of truth and contorted it into an all-out conspiracy theory of entrenched bureaucrats out to get him.
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The main judge investigating these cases, Sérgio Moro, had to apologize to the Supreme Court for leaking to the press wiretapped conversations between Lula and Rousseff, as well as between Lula and his attorney, and between his wife and their children.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Monday he was almost certain Donald Trump had not spoken to FBI Director James Comey about the president's claim, without evidence, that the previous administration wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign.
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The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee signaled Tuesday that he intends to use the panel's first open hearing in its investigation into Russian interference in the election to probe President Trump's claims that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Washington (CNN)US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
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Hours later, NBC News appeared to deliver an even greater blow for Trump's team when it reported Cohen was wiretapped by federal investigators conducting the criminal probe, and that a call between the lawyer and the White House was picked up.
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Paul Manafort US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
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The rise of usable, frictionless encryption has brought us to a point where users can be fairly certain that their Signal or WhatsApp messages are not being collected, subpoenaed, or wiretapped by cops armed with a warrant or message interception technology.
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Yet, when this disclosure was made by the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, CNN and other news outlets immediately proclaimed that it did not prove anything about the Trump allegations — again emphasizing that he said Obama "wiretapped" Trump's phone.
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Kondelis then juxtaposes statements by Arizona's Sean Miller and LSU's Will Wade with wiretapped phone calls of the two men engaging in chummy conversations with Dawkins, with Wade at one point joking about how much a player would be paid.
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He also testified, along with National Security Agency head Mike Rogers, that the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the NSA have found no evidence to back up Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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Mr. Trump offered no evidence to support his claims that Mr. Obama wiretapped his phones and rejected the assertion by the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, that the wiretapping claim was false, according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a White House spokeswoman.
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Comey confirmed that the bureau is investigating whether the president's associates coordinated with Russia to influence the outcome of the election and said he has seen no evidence to back up Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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WASHINGTON — Near the end of his meticulously formal, utterly impersonal news conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Trump finally sought a sliver of common ground with his guest: They both, he said, had been wiretapped by former President Barack Obama.
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It is not clear why Mr. Trump thought he was wiretapped or what led him to make the claim, which was flatly rejected by James R. Clapper Jr., a former director of national intelligence, and by a spokesman for Mr. Obama.
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The CNN report further suggests that Manafort was being wiretapped this year, "including a period when Manafort was known to talk" to President Trump — thus raising the question of what, if anything, the president himself was taped saying to Manafort.
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Now Mr. Trump has added insult to insult by involving the chancellor of Germany, and angering our closest ally, Britain, by saying it might have wiretapped him, an idea he got watching a "very talented legal mind" on Fox News.
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He went so far as to claim that the voice on the wiretapped phone calls actually belonged to El Mayo, and that Mayo's brother and eldest son — who both cut deals and testified against El Chapo — were involved in the plot.
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Washington (CNN)The Department of Justice asked the chairman and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee for "additional time" to collect evidence to support President Donald Trump's accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the campaign.
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While Democrats highlighted Trump's allegation that his predecessor wiretapped him and Trump campaign aides' alleged collusion with Russian operatives, GOP members grilled the two officials on who leaked information of the US investigation into Russia's communications with the campaign of President Donald Trump.
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The approval ratings, Trump's worst since taking office two months ago, come as FBI Director James Comey is expected to tell lawmakers that there is no evidence for the President's unverified claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key Republican lawmaker said on Wednesday he did not believe the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election campaign, adding to pressure on FBI Director James Comey to provide evidence supporting or debunking Republican President Donald Trump's claim.
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The investigation of possible ties between members of the Trump campaign team and Russian officials, and the President's claim that he was wiretapped in Trump Tower on orders of President Obama, will all lead back to the Southern District of New York.
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After the heads of both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees said they found no evidence former President Obama secretly wiretapped Trump Tower during last year's election, the White House press secretary was asked on Thursday to respond to President Trump's baseless claim.
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Source: Doug McSchooler According to FBI Special Agent Dennis Halliden's analysis of wiretapped conversations, Dina Wein Reis asserted that her net worth at the height of her product diversion enterprise was $200 million and that she sold over $2 billion worth of goods.
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Sunday's snap election was called after Gruevski stepped down and handed over to a caretaker government in January to end a national crisis caused by opposition allegations that he and his counter-intelligence chief had wiretapped the phones of more than 20,000 people.
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But early Monday, a new cloud of suspicion moved in over the White House over its role in helping House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes access classified information that the President later claimed partially vindicated his accusation that his predecessor "wiretapped" him.
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He confirmed that the bureau was investigating whether there was coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and he said he had "no information" to support the president's accusation, first made on Twitter, that former President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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When President Donald Trump joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a press conference in D.C. on Friday, he thought it was a good time to make a joke about something he thinks they have in common: being wiretapped by President Barack Obama.
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During Merkel's U.S. visit last month, Trump appeared to snub her by not shaking her hands, and made a joke comparing his unfounded claim that President Obama wiretapped him to the 2010 WikiLeaks revelations that the National Security Agency had tapped Merkel's phone.
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In their first White House meeting, Trump pressed German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the United States' most important European ally, to meet NATO's military spending target, and in an awkward quip repeated his claim that he had been wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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A tweet attributed to the President of the United States was fact-checked in real time today by FBI Director James Comey, who also dispelled the Trump administration's contention that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in the months leading up to the election.
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And it echoed another episode, from last spring, in which Mr. Trump falsely claimed that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, and Mr. Nunes went public with information that he said showed the Obama administration had "incidentally" collected intelligence on Trump associates.
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In early 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the law brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, without addressing the merits, because the A.C.L.U.'s clients could not prove they had been wiretapped under the act and so lacked standing.
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Yet even before Thursday, the view among Democrats and even some Republicans was that Mr. Nunes was given access to the intelligence reports to divert attention from the investigations into Russian meddling, and to bolster Mr. Trump's debunked claims of having been wiretapped.
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Users also mentioned the president frequently on Twitter when he signed controversial executive orders, when he claimed that Mr. Obama had him wiretapped and when one of Mr. Trump's senior advisers urged television viewers to buy fashion products marketed by his daughter.
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So much of this is new to Mr. Trump that only after he publicly accused Mr. Obama of having wiretapped his telephones last year did he ask aides how the system of obtaining eavesdropping warrants from a special foreign intelligence court worked.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.) raised suspicions that the White House tried to "launder" information through the committee to support Trump's claims that President Obama wiretapped him.
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The editorial, headlined "A President's Credibility," criticized President Trump for "rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims" — namely, repeating an unsupported allegation by a Fox News commentator that British intelligence had wiretapped Mr. Trump on behalf of the Obama administration.
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Mr. Schiff also challenged the statements of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, who had said that while he was not aware of any investigation targeting Mr. Trump, the president spoke accurately when he said he had been wiretapped by Mr. Obama.
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Horowitz poked holes in several conservative conspiracy theories, including saying that he found no evidence that former President Obama ordered the investigation into Trump campaign associates and that there was no evidence that anyone besides Page had been wiretapped by the FBI.
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In choosing to testify, Mr. Skelos has opened himself up to cross-examination by prosecutors, and in the process found himself in the awkward position on Monday of contradicting or trying to explain away his own words as captured on wiretapped phone calls.
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That has left many of the candidates rushing to distance themselves from Chicago's most powerful alderman, Ed Burke, who was charged last month with a federal crime and whose wiretapped phones have become a topic of wonder and worry on the campaign trail.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Department of Justice said on Monday it had requested more time to respond to a request from lawmakers on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for evidence about President Donald Trump's allegation that then-President Barack Obama wiretapped him.
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal investigators kept logs of the phone lines of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, NBC News said on Thursday, correcting an earlier story that said the lines were wiretapped to allow investigators to hear the calls.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Tuesday he had no reason to think President Donald Trump does not support Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey after a dispute over the president's claim without evidence that he was wiretapped last year.
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The Trump administration issued a call on Sunday for Congress to probe potentially "politically motivated" investigations initiated under former president Barack Obama, just a day after President Donald Trump made an extraordinary accusation that he was wiretapped at the height of the general election.
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Will Hurd, in an interview Friday evening on CNN's Erin Burnett "OutFront," said that while he had not yet had a chance to read the DOJ report, he believes "it's been pretty clear that there's no evidence to suggest" Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped.
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Here are some questions that remain, some of which will be answered in the coming days and some of which we'll probably never know: This is one of the questions that's likely to go unanswered, unless a transcript of the wiretapped conversation ever gets leaked.
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Rudy Giuliani told BuzzFeed News on Thursday afternoon that he didn't believe there was a wiretap of Cohen — two hours after NBC reported that "[f]ederal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen," a report that also was covered extensively on MSNBC.
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When asked about her boss's allegations that he'd been wiretapped by Barack Obama—allegations which were made with zero evidence and have been regarded as baseless—Conway responded thusly: Conway: What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other now, unfortunately.
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The S&P 500 and the Dow ended lower after FBI Director James Comey told a congressional hearing he had seen no evidence to support a claim by Trump that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in New York.
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James Comey Photo: APAppearing before the House Select Committee on Intelligence today, FBI director James Comey couldn't offer a shred of evidence to support Donald Trump's outlandish and totally unsubstantiated claim that former President Obama wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower during the election.
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And those are just the Republicans Key congressmen say they have no evidence that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower President Trump helped write embattled Obamacare replacement bill, Speaker Ryan says as he defends plan Trump's media allies urge him to dump House Obamacare repeal plan
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U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.
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The directors of the FBI and National Security Agency gave more details Monday on the extent of Russian influence in the 2016 U.S. election, confirming an open FBI investigation into Moscow's alleged interference and refuting President Donald Trump's explosive claim that Trump Tower was wiretapped.
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While it's unlikely that Trump or his associates were wiretapped directly — congressional intelligence leaders say they have seen no evidence and legal experts call the scenario far-fetched — it is possible that agencies could have inadvertently collected and then searched then-candidate Trump's phone records.
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After one of Donald Trump's worst days as president — the FBI director confirming an investigation of his campaign's possible links to Russia, and repudiating his claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him — he makes his most difficult policy pitch of his first two months in office.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, slammed President Trump on Saturday over his allegation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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Trump tweeted on Saturday that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower in a Nixon-Watergate move.
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Alleged surveillance of the Trump campaign became part of the committee's investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election after the president's claim early this month that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower — making Nunes's decision to cut out members of his own committee unusual.
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Mike Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, will be pressed by both parties on any connections between Trump and Russia and his allegation that Obama wiretapped him, an accusation that the leaders of the House committee have already said lacks any evidence.
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Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, Mr. Comey also dismissed Mr. Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by his predecessor during the campaign, a sensational accusation that has served as a distraction in the public debate over Russian election interference.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mystery rooted in President Donald Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by then President Barack Obama during the 2016 election campaign deepened on Monday with the disclosure that a top congressional Republican reviewed classified information about the charge on the White House grounds.
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What we don't know: Who gave the information to Nunes, what it showed, precisely who was targeted for the surveillance, or whether this contradicts testimony delivered Monday by FBI Director James Comey, who said there was "no information" supporting Trump's tweets claiming he was "wiretapped" by Obama.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers from both parties said on Sunday they had seen no proof to support the claim by Republican President Donald Trump that his predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him last year, adding pressure on Trump to explain or back off his repeated assertion.
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A government source, who requested anonymity when discussing sensitive information, said an initial examination of the material turned over by the Justice Department indicates that it contains no evidence to confirm Trump's claims that the Obama administration had wiretapped him or the Trump Tower in New York.
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In a reminder that when Trump makes an unfounded claim, many people believe him, a new CBS poll finds that 74 percent of self-identified Republicans think it is at least "somewhat likely" that "Donald Trump's offices were wiretapped or under government surveillance" during the 2016 campaign.
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After Trump said, "You saw what happened with surveillance," Dickerson asked the President whether he stood by his totally and completely unproven claim that then President Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election -- and that Obama was a "sick" and "bad" guy for doing so.
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Last Monday, it was revealed that Nunes went to the White House for a meeting the day before he met with Trump, leading some to allege Nunes is attempting to cover for the president by justifying his unsubstantiated claims that the Obama administration "wiretapped" Trump Tower.
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After alerting the press, Nunes rushed to the White House to brief Trump, allowing Trump to claim vindication for the completely unrelated and discredited claim that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped him during the election—which, it seems, was the whole point of the stunt.
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Nunes's press conference came just as Trump was receiving blowback for his debunked claim that former President Barack Obama had "wiretapped" him, and it was immediately suspected that Nunes was providing cover for Trump by claiming that Trump's team, at least, was caught up in surveillance.
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The ethics inquiry came in the aftermath of his bombshell comments that Obama administration officials had improperly unmasked the names of Trump associates, a revelation that Trump used as cover for his unsubstantiated claim that Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the election to spy on him.
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It was revealed days later that Nunes had received the intelligence from White House officials, leading Democrats to accuse the GOP chairman of colluding with the Trump administration in an effort to back up the president's earlier claim that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration.
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Saturday, March 21625 President Trump tweets a claim that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2900 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE "wiretapped" Trump Tower during the campaign.
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So even a vegetable stand is a risky venture, and the wiretapped conversations in the Operation Check file reveal that some gang leaders went so far as to pay extortion fees to their own gangs on their private businesses in order to hide their involvement with them.
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" Among the "high crimes" Trump has committed, Green charges, are falsely claiming President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, which amounted to "engendering racial antipathy"; vowing to ban transgender people from the military, which "incited bigotry"; and calling NFL players "sons of dogs" by calling them "sons of bitches.
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The legislation strengthened privacy statutes and placed new restrictions on the FISA courts — inspired in part by Trump's frequent complaints about his former campaign adviser, Carter Page, who was wiretapped as part of the U.S. government's initial investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has conceded to a secretive intelligence court that the available evidence about Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser wiretapped by the F.B.I. during the Russia investigation, was legally insufficient to justify the last several months of his continued surveillance in 2017.
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Trump's obsession with the unfounded idea he was being wiretapped by former President Barack Obama, and his concern about rumors he was secretly videotaped by the Russians, now feed strangely into the development that he *actually* was secretly recorded by his lawyer and at least one aide.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the FBI publicly challenged U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, denying the Republican's claim that former president Barack Obama wiretapped his 2016 election campaign and confirming his agency had launched a criminal investigation into any collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia.
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WASHINGTON — In an interview with Time magazine on Wednesday, President Trump cited The New York Times as evidence of his claim, made in a series of Twitter posts on March 4, that President Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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The saga began on Tuesday on "Fox & Friends," the chummy morning show, where Mr. Napolitano made a bizarre and unsupported accusation: Citing three unnamed sources, he said that Britain's top spy agency had wiretapped Mr. Trump on behalf of President Barack Obama during last year's campaign.
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Also on Monday, a mystery rooted in Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by then President Barack Obama during the election campaign deepened with the disclosure that a top congressional Republican reviewed classified information on the White House grounds about potential surveillance of some Trump campaign associates.
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There was the bizarre dispute over the size of his inaugural crowds, the departure of national security adviser Michael Flynn, the travel ban, the claim that he was wiretapped by the Obama administration, the airstrike on Syria and the installation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
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The divide between the executive branch and the FBI, widening amid President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated accusation that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower phones during the 2016 campaign, is "truly unprecedented" and "unusual, to say the least," former Department of Justice officials told Business Insider on Tuesday.
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But when no one is looking they are upstairs in the bedrooms at home making phone calls that happen to be wiretapped, organizing for their children to take the spots that rightfully belonged to the kind of people they were claiming in daylight to be helping.
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Then, in an interview with CBS's John Dickerson Sunday, Trump said that he wasn't sure if Russia was responsible for the hacking of the Democrats during the campaign and refused to answer questions about his (still unproven, still confusing) allegation that Barack Obama illegally wiretapped him.
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When Trump made the unsubstantiated claim on Twitter that his predecessor had wiretapped him in the waning days of the 2016 election, it diverted attention from the growing body of undisputed reports that his surrogates and staffers had met with the Russian ambassador before and after the election.
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Washington (CNN)Democrats aren't finished with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and they're using the Senate confirmation hearing for his potential second in command as an opportunity to grill him on the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia and the President's baseless claim of being wiretapped by his predecessor.
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About her boss The UN ambassador also said President Donald Trump was not lying on purpose when he said former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign, even though members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have said there is no evidence for his claims.
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That said, having the recordings available for users to listen to is markedly more transparent than similar services like Siri (which stores your data for up to two years, unless you turn off the service) or Amazon Echo (which may or may not be wiretapped by the FBI).
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Does it suggest Trump believes in his innocence, or a consciousness of guilt, when he slanders former President Obama with the ludicrous charge that he illegally wiretapped him and slanders the intelligence service of a trusted American ally with the ridiculous accusation that it illegally spied on him?
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NBC's report that federal investigators "monitored" the phone lines of President Trump's longtime personal lawyer [NBC initially said Cohen was wiretapped] — and intercepted a call between Cohen and the White House — is the latest in a string of reports that reveal the broad scope of the federal government's investigation.
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Comey was said to be "incredulous" after President Trump claimed former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped him during the presidential race.
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"There's no question in my mind that the president, with the aid of his national security adviser staff, came up with some kind of a ruse to try and suggest there was some kind of validity" to Trump's claims he had been wiretapped by former President Obama, Speier said.
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Across the aisle, few of the Republican faithful are willing to publicly disavow Mr. Trump's unsubstantiated claim that he and his campaign were wiretapped on the order of President Barack Obama; fewer still will contest the lie that protesters against the new president are paid by leftist billionaires.
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday refused to acknowledge reports that James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, had asked the Justice Department to refute President Trump's claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped him during the 2016 presidential campaign, and said Mr. Trump still believes he was spied on.
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NATIONAL An article last Saturday about Andrew Napolitano's assertion on Fox News that Britain's top spy agency had wiretapped President Trump misspelled the surname of a writer of thrillers, the kind of novel to which a former Fox News contributor compared the gathering of evidence for the claim.
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, a career intelligence official who had oversight of the US intelligence community in that role, said Sunday that Trump was not wiretapped by intelligence agencies nor did the FBI obtain a court order through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor Trump's phones.
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Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, a career intelligence official who had oversight of the US intelligence community in that role, said Sunday that Trump was not wiretapped by intelligence agencies nor did the FBI obtain a court order through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor Trump's phones.
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Trump's tweets alleging -- with no evidence -- that he was wiretapped by President Barack Obama, as well as his assertion that "unmasking" is the real Russia story, have thrown a wrench into the surveillance debate on Capitol Hill, raising concerns for some conservatives about whether the NSA's spying powers are being abused.
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox slammed President Trump on Saturday over his claims that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower last year.
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For instance, Bo Xilai, a senior party official who was jailed for corruption in 2013, reportedly wiretapped a call by China's president at the time, Hu Jintao, as part of a widespread surveillance operation that gathered information on party leaders and other powerful individuals, to aid in Mr. Bo's political ambitions.
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The president claimed in a series of tweets earlier this month that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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In March he wrote a short story in a series of tweets mocking Trump's accusation that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Members of both parties have said they have seen no evidence to back up Trump's allegations about Obama, and, addressing a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey said that he had "no information" to support claims by the President that he was wiretapped on the orders of his predecessor.
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Louisiana State's coach, Will Wade, was suspended after he was reported to have boasted on a wiretapped phone conversation about making an offer to a recruit; the Tigers will take on Yale, whose athletic department (though not its basketball team) was drawn into the middle of a sprawling college admissions scandal.
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The officials who detailed the newly disclosed White House role said that this month, shortly after Mr. Trump claimed on Twitter that he was wiretapped during the campaign on the orders of President Barack Obama, Mr. Cohen-Watnick began reviewing highly classified reports detailing the intercepted communications of foreign officials.
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" RUSSIA NEWS: From CNN's Evan Perez, Shimon Prokupecz and Pamela Brown: "US investigators wiretapped former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort under secret court orders before and after the election, sources tell CNN, an extraordinary step involving a high-ranking campaign official now at the center of the Russia meddling probe.
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During a recent discussion of Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had wiretapped him, Carlson offered a pro forma criticism ("You can't say things without backing them up, if you're the President"), and then suggested, as he often does, that citizens should be more concerned about government spying and leaking.
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But in a sign of how convoluted Russian matters have become, their testimony is most anticipated not for what they will say about their investigation, but for whether they will publicly deny Mr. Trump's claim that Trump Tower had been wiretapped during the campaign, for which he has cited no evidence.
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The Department of Justice has "no information" to support Trump's claim that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 28503 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE "wiretapped" Trump Tower, Comey said Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets fell on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump's allegations that he was wiretapped by his predecessor raised worries about his ability to push ahead with tax reform plans, while the dollar rose on concerns that an anti-EU candidate may be elected France's next president.
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Louisiana State suspended its head men's basketball coach, Will Wade, on Friday — less than two weeks before the N.C.A.A. tournament is set to begin — after a report that Wade made damning remarks to a recruiting middleman on a phone call that was wiretapped as part of a federal corruption investigation.
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If a Politico account of the president's decision-making process can be believed, Trump wanted Comey gone because the FBI director went on TV so much without backing Trump's (bizarre) claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped his phones, and because he was really sick of hearing about the Russia investigation.
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Nunes's credibility has been in doubt since late March, when he made a confusing announcement that he had evidence that members of the Trump transition team had been caught on US intelligence wiretaps — a statement that seemed to at least partially vindicate Trump's unfounded claims that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Again, even if you believe that Rice did something that was wrong -- and her strange decision to kind of, sort of, deny that she knew anything about the unmasking will add fuel to that fire -- it is still not proof, or anything close to proof, that Obama ordered Trump to be wiretapped.
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Here are some takeaways from Trump's Time interview: Stands by Obama wiretap claim Trump was unrepentant about his charge that former President Barack Obama "wiretapped" his phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 election -- an allegation soundly refuted by FBI Director James Comey in testimony before the House Intelligence Committee earlier this week.
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The FBI director also revealed the Department of Justice (DOJ) has "no information" backing Trump's claims former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped him in 2016.
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Trump on Saturday claimed that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the November election, but did not provide any evidence of the claim.
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The New York Times first reported this week that Mueller's prosecutors told Manafort they planned to indict him Grassley also said he has not been given any information on CNN's report that Manafort was wiretapped under a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which began when he was under FBI investigation in 2014.
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Once seated, he said that he was enjoying the play ("It's quite well written") and added that one scene in particular seemed especially knowing about the world he once inhabited — one that showed a government informant fumbling his attempts to draw out incriminating statements from his boss in a wiretapped phone conversation.
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"I even had that list — there were two groups of people on the list, the people who he was involved in business that had a chart, one page would say person's name, their relationship to him and their phone number, and whether or not he would allow them to be wiretapped," Blanks said.
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In 1968, Life magazine reported on wiretapped conversations suggesting that Mr. Gallagher had not only helped protect the Mafia boss Joseph Zicarelli's gambling operations from police interference, but that he had also enlisted Mr. Zicarelli to get rid of the body of a loan shark who had died in Mr. Gallagher's home.
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Since March 4, when Mr. Trump posted on Twitter that President Barack Obama had "wiretapped" him at Trump Tower during the campaign, the president and his allies have repeatedly sought evidence trying to corroborate that claim, despite flat denials from James B. Comey, the director of the F.B.I., and other senior intelligence officials.
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Nunes's remarks added a new wrinkle to the controversy over Trump's claims former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City last year.
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The president seized on the information, misleadingly, as evidence for his thoroughly debunked claim that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower — an allegation dismissed not only by senior law enforcement officials, like the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, but also by the heads of the Senate and House investigations, including Mr. Nunes.
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Democratic lawmakers on Sunday raised questions about President Trump's claims a day earlier that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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Many of them have previously been fact-checked by The New York Times and found false, including his claim that Ukraine, rather than Russia, was behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee in 2016; his accusation that the Obama administration wiretapped him; and his characterization of the whistle-blower's report as baseless.
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While news organizations targeted by Mr. Trump have corrected factual errors and in one recent case suspended a reporter, Mr. Trump has never backed down, for instance, from unsubstantiated claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower or that millions of illegal immigrants cast votes last year, swinging the popular tally against him.
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Sunday night, Conway appeared to expand Trump's allegations that the Obama administration wiretapped his phones at Trump Tower -- a claim for which the President has not yet provided evidence -- when she told the Bergen Record there could have been even wider spying on the Trump campaign, including the use of microwaves and television sets.
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Spicer started the gig having to defend a ridiculous claim by Donald Trump about the size of his inaugural crowd; his statements on the Republican healthcare plan were denounced by the left and the right; last month he had to back up his boss's bizarre (and still unproven) claim about being wiretapped by Barack Obama.
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Trump discusses wiretapping tweet and Merkel in Financial Times His most important visitor so far, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, appeared baffled by the President's decision to make a joke about the former US practice of tapping her phone — as he stuck by his baseless allegations that he was wiretapped by former President Barack Obama.
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Trump tweeted earlier this month that Obama, who endorsed Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE last year, wiretapped Trump Tower in New York City before Election Day.
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Schiff offers bill to make domestic terrorism a federal crime New intel chief inherits host of challenges MORE (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Thursday that he expects FBI Director James Comey to debunk President Trump's claim that he was "wiretapped" in a highly anticipated public hearing next week.
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"The disclosure of this information by Chairman Nunes was evidently intended to try to lend some credence to President Trump's claims that former President Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped -- claims that have repeatedly been shown to be absolutely baseless, as confirmed by FBI Director Comey in his testimony before Chairman Nunes' own committee," MoveOn.
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Doggart was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in April 2015 after saying in wiretapped telephone calls that he planned to recruit a militia and travel to Islamberg, a rural town that is home to a small Muslim community in Hancock, New York, about 130 miles (209 km) northwest of New York City.
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That lie, which originated from right-wing radio hosts Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, gained currency thanks to Trump's pulpit and the power of partisanship: A CBS poll in late March found that 74 percent of Republicans believed it was "very" or "somewhat" likely that Trump's campaign was wiretapped or otherwise surveilled by the government.
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He clearly sees a chance in this Trump-Russia controversy -- all of which stems from a tweet by the President alleging he had been wiretapped by President Barack Obama -- to score political points on the idea that the government is listening to everyone all the time and that it is a very bad thing indeed.
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The latest example came quietly on Friday when Edgardo Ramos, the United States District Court judge who will preside over the bribery trial, granted a prosecution motion that will allow two head coaches, Sean Miller of Arizona and Will Wade of Louisiana State, whose conversations with Dawkins were wiretapped, to avoid taking the witness stand.
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Former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE reportedly "rolled his eyes" after learning of President Trump's claims last weekend that his predecessor had wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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"The disclosure of this information by Chairman Nunes was evidently intended to try to lend some credence to President Trump' claims that former President Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped — claims that have been repeatedly been shown to be absolutely baseless, as confirmed by FBI Director Comey in his testimony before Chairman Nunes' own committee," MoveOn.
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" And the word appeared twice in the text of the article: "intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House" and "If Mr. Sessions is confirmed, he will for a time be the only person in the government authorized to seek foreign intelligence wiretaps on American soil.
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Here's a startling and depressing statistic: 74 percent of Republican voters think it's at least "somewhat likely" that Donald Trump's offices were wiretapped during the campaign — a conspiracy theory that has been conclusively shot down by the leaders of Trump's own party and by the heads of both the FBI and the National Security Agency.
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Washington (CNN)In the face of firm denials from House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Attorney General Jeff Sessions of any evidence that President Barack Obama wiretapped then-candidate Donald Trump, Trump appears now to be walking back his explosive accusation by redefining the terms of the charge.
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The White House is trying to clean up its mess after UK intel slaps down wiretapping allegations The White House is trying to clean up its mess after UK intel slaps down wiretapping allegations The White House has apologized to British intelligence officials after alleging that the U.K. security agency wiretapped Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.
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Initially a civil servant in a corrupt Newark, New Jersey, administration ("you do the math," says one of the brothers about the nature of his father's deal-making), he wiretapped his wife's phone despite his own infidelities, and, after Houston rose to fame, even considered attempting to remove Crawford from her orbit by hiring goons to scare her off.
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Of course, Trump himself saw his candidacy born in a conspiracy theory -- Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States -- and has continued to peddle false conspiracy theories (Ted Cruz's father was involved in the JFK assassination, Muslims were celebrating on New Jersey roofs on 9/11, Barack Obama wiretapped phones in Trump Tower) throughout his candidacy and presidency.
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Falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths But it is also possible that given his administration's history of repeated falsehoods, exaggerations and blatant untruths, on issues from the size of the inauguration crowds to claims that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, the President may not come across as a particularly credible witness in the court of public opinion.
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Nixon believed that Hoover might have wiretapped a conversation dealing with the Nixon campaign and the South Vietnamese government in the fall of 1968, and feared Hoover might release it, implicating Nixon and his campaign chief in a violation of the federal statute that prohibits private citizens from interfering with the conduct of American foreign policy.
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The president was also reportedly unhappy with Comey's "disloyalty" over Trump's accusation that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the presidential election, according to the Times.
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" Meanwhile, the Palermo prosecutor's office reportedly said that Mered had styled himself in the manner of Muammar Qaddafi, and that he was known among smugglers as the General—even though the only reference to that nickname came from a single wiretapped call from 163 that, according to the official transcript, was conducted "in an ironic tone.
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Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) is calling for President Trump to back up his claim that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election or apologize to his predecessor.
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The FBI has obtained wiretapped conversations of a Kremlin-linked banker who later met with Donald Trump Jr.Donald (Don) John TrumpPETA billboard in Baltimore calls Kushner a 'rich pest' Dick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report House chairman warns foreign governments to 'cease and desist' spending money at Trump properties MORE during the 2016 presidential election.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE knocked NBC News on Friday after the network issued a correction to a story claiming Trump's lawyer had been wiretapped by the FBI.
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A House Democrat on Thursday introduced a resolution asking President Trump and Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE to produce evidence of Trump's allegation that former President Obama wiretapped him.
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Rogers briefly served as an adviser to Trump's transition team in November, but recently criticized the president's accusation that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the November presidential election.
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But all anyone will remember of the meeting was Trump's decision to double down on the unfounded claims that he was wiretapped by British spies at the behest of the Obama administration, and his awkward attempt to joke about it with Merkel (whose phones had been tapped by the National Security Agency during the Obama years).
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORIES: --TRUMP 'EXTREMELY CONFIDENT' DOJ WILL PRODUCE WIRETAPPING EVIDENCE: President Trump is "extremely confident" that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will produce evidence that former President Obama wiretapped him last year, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
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When Trump tweeted early one March Saturday morning about how Barack Obama had "wiretapped" Trump's phones, and how Obama was a "bad" or "sick" guy for doing that, Sean Spicer tied himself up in knots coming up with new and interesting (and laughable) ways of trying to explain (defend) what Trump meant by that blatant lie.
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Additionally, Comey declined to prioritize investigations of government leaks the way Trump would have liked, he refused to back Trump's unsubstantiated claims that he was being wiretapped by the Obama administration, and infuriated Trump with his quip to Congress that he felt "mildly nauseous" about the possibility that his actions might have swayed how the election turned out.
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FBI, NSA, and DOJ have no evidence to support Trump's wiretap allegations FBI, NSA, and DOJ have no evidence to support Trump's wiretap allegations The heads of multiple U.S. government agencies just stated definitively that they've found no evidence to back up Donald Trump's claims that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower during the presidential campaign.
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While the U.S. and the European Union discussed the details of a potential transitional government in Ukraine, an aide to the Russian deputy prime minister tweeted a reference to part of a wiretapped conversation, posted soon afterward to YouTube, between Victoria Nuland, a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, and her colleague Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador in Ukraine.
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Ben Sasse (Neb.) on Saturday called on President Trump to release information backing up his bombshell claims that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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FBI Director James Comey reportedly asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump's claims that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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Still, most of the party's national figures have not publicly pulled their support for him, despite previous incidents, including the release of a tape in which he appears to boast about sexual assault, his firing of former FBI Director James Comey and unfounded claims that his predecessor wiretapped him, that some suspected would cause serious political damage to Trump.
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Whether the topic is ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn's leaked contacts with Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, Trump's unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower or House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' recent pronouncement that some of Trump's communications may have been swept up, to understand the story, one must understand the terms involved.
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His shameless oversharing over the years has ranged from the highly personal -- he once told a New York City tabloid he was getting divorced before he told his wife -- to business-boosting boasts about his next giant real estate deal, to political canards like his birther crusade against former President Obama and his later claims that Obama had wiretapped his transition office.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) said President Trump's claim that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower last year is just the latest example in a long list of "delusional" statements.
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Touching down just as the orange sun was setting, Trump was effectively pushing the pause button on what had been a tough week in the White House, where he was beset by complications for his travel ban and the Republican health care plan and controversy over his unfounded claims that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones during the presidential campaign.
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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Friday said his panel is "satisfied" with the information the Justice Department handed over regarding President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's unfounded claim that he and his aides were wiretapped by President Obama.
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Critics accused Nunes, who worked on Trump's transition team, of attempting to offer cover for the president following his baseless claim on Twitter early this month that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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And he complained about leaks coming from inside the federal government, saying they were the bigger story than his recent claims about being wiretapped by former President Barack Obama at Trump Tower and "even going into the statutory authority of how to deal with them," according to Alan Dershowitz, who was at Mar-a-Lago and spoke to the president at length there.
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The panel will have the opportunity to grill FBI Director James Comey on the intelligence community's findings about Russian election hacking and Trump's unsubstantiated claims that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 85033 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower. Adm.
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Convenient timing News of the tax return and the fact that he did pay millions in taxes also provided a detour from questions about ties to Russia, the fragile health reform legislation he has pushed with House Speaker Paul Ryan, but which is in deep peril on Capitol Hill and scrutiny of his stunning claims that former President Obama wiretapped him during the campaign.
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And if you look at what we know of what happened with the Trump campaign, we know that either as many as perhaps more than seven Trump associates were either wiretapped or otherwise electronically surveilled, that at least one informant or spy was placed with the campaign and I have seven other features of a counterintelligence operation perhaps used for political purposes that I&aposve outlined.
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Trump (or his aides in the White House communications shop) tweeted diversionary and deceptively edited video clips of the hearing testimony in the apparent hope that he could steal headlines from FBI Director James Comey, who announced that Trump's campaign is under criminal investigation and that there was no evidence to support Trump's explosive allegation (also made on Twitter) that President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Context: Manafort's foreign lobbying jobs in the past have gotten him in hot water: The government investigation into him began in 2014 over his consulting in the Ukraine; a new investigation opened in 2016; and the news recently surfaced that the government wiretapped him before and after the election under FISA court orders, which were reportedly part of an effort to understand foreign powers.
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Trump's unfounded claim that Obama wiretapped his phones during the 2016 campaign was rebuffed by Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill last week, his health care law teetered in Congress, and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, sparked an international incident when he read the unconfirmed musings of a Fox News commentator from the White House briefing room that alleged British intelligence helped surveil Trump during the campaign.
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In the "Fox and Friends" interview, Mr. Trump unleashed a torrent of falsehoods to support his claims, including saying that the Obama administration wiretapped his 2016 campaign and asserting that Mr. Schiff "made up" a phone call of his, when, in fact, the California congressman stated at the time that he was conveying "the essence" of Mr. Trump's July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
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Advisers have been forced to perform postpresidential cleanup in the wake of Mr. Trump's tweet claiming he had been wiretapped by the Obama administration, his Oval Office comments to Russian diplomats about the former F.B.I. director, his private musings about the possibility of firing the Russia special counsel, his suggestion that there might be recordings of White House conversations, and his comments about a "military" deportation operation.
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House Democrats are asking the Department of Justice for information on possible "improper" contacts between the White House and the FBI in the wake of President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's claims that former President Obama wiretapped the Trump Tower phones before the election.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is "extremely confident" that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will produce evidence that former President Obama wiretapped him last year, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
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Trump makes rare trip to Clinton state, hoping to win back New Hampshire MORE (R-Ariz.) on Sunday said President Trump either has to retract his claim that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower, or provide evidence of the allegations.
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It was Trump who launched bad news cycles for the White House with his unfounded accusation that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE had Trump Tower wiretapped and his claim that he has secret recordings of his conversations with ousted FBI Director James Comey.
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Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District Court in New York concluded that former "The Five" and "Outnumbered" co-host Andrea Tantaros did not present adequate evidence to back up her 2017 claims, which included allegations that malware was installed on her personal computer, that she was wiretapped by the company and that she and other female on-air talent were recorded on video while getting undressed.
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Other events they have said were also highly important and abnormal — though none as important as Mr. Comey's firing — were the administration's use of terms like "alternative facts" and "fake news"; its continued attacks on news organizations; Mr. Trump's false accusation that President Obama wiretapped him; the White House's decision to give its staff members secret waivers to its own conflict-of-interest rules; and the F.B.I.'s Russia investigation.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Democrats worried by Jeremy Corbyn's UK rise amid anti-Semitism Warren, Buttigieg duke it out in sprint to 2020 MORE has claimed without evidence that his predecessor wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower, and has in recent months alluded to the possibility that Obama was aware of the surveillance of his campaign.
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"We get to the point where we're just done dealing with something," said Matt Negrin, a digital producer at "The Daily Show," recalling unresolved maelstroms like Mr. Trump's feud with a Gold Star widow, his baseless claim that Mr. Obama wiretapped him and his defense of white nationalist supporters amid the deadly violence this summer in Charlottesville, Va. "That's something, in my opinion, we should be talking about," Mr. Negrin said.
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In March, when former FBI Director James Comey told Congress there was "no information" to prove Trump's claims that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 election and confirmed that Trump's campaign was under investigation for possible collusion with Russia, Ivanka and Jared were in Aspen, CO. During the same Aspen trip, news broke that Ivanka was working in the White House and planned to take an official unpaid position advising the president.
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Press Secretary Sean Spicer denies White House staffers apologized to the UK after he cited the unfounded claim the British government spied on Trump Russia's Alfa Bank claims it was hacked to create perception of link to Trump Organization Ukrainian prosecutors want to question Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, as part of corruption investigation Classified DOJ report to House and Senate investigators does not confirm Trump's allegations that Obama wiretapped him, government sources say.
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As I noted in my latest column, "Put Trump Under Oath," Trump's fake news attack on President Obama for allegedly ordering Trump to be wiretapped is so false that even Vice President Mike PenceMichael (Mike) Richard PenceThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters FEC chair calls on Trump to provide evidence of NH voter fraud Five years after Yazidi genocide, US warns ISIS is rebounding MORE will not back it up.
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Coats had reportedly grown increasingly frustrated with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE after the president pressured him to find evidence that former President Obama wiretapped him, told him to question the impartiality of the U.S. intelligence community and accused him of leaking classified information.
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When President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE tweeted in March 2017 that the prior administration wiretapped his campaign and the Trump Tower, the media treated the president's claim not merely as untrue but downright deranged.
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For some of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's staunchest allies, reports that former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was under U.S. surveillance are nothing short of vindication of the president's widely-dismissed claims that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
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This was a year in which Trump undermined the press, fired the director of the FBI, cozied up to Russia, baselessly alleged he was wiretapped, threatened to jail his political opponents, publicly humiliated his attorney general for recusing himself from an investigation, repeatedly claimed massive voter fraud against him, appointed a raft of unqualified and occasionally ridiculous candidates to key positions, mishandled the aftermath of the Puerto Rico hurricane, and threatened to use antitrust and libel laws against his enemies.
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They range from little white lies — like how many hours he actually spends watching TV — to big whoppers — like he won more electoral votes than anyone since Ronald Reagan; or 3-5 million people voted illegally for Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE; or President Obama ordered his phones wiretapped at Trump Tower.
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Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyGOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation Trump health official: Controversial drug pricing move is 'top priority' Environmental advocates should take another look at biofuels MORE (R-Iowa) on Tuesday fiercely debated President Trump's claim former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped him last year.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Top aide Jeff Weaver lays out Sanders's path to victory MORE (I-Vt.) in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries and a vocal critic of Trump, argued that Trump was " 'unfaithfully' executing his duties as president by accusing his predecessor, President Obama, of undertaking an illegal (and impeachable act)," alluding to Trump's claim that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower last year.
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Susan CollinsSusan Margaret CollinsCook Political Report moves Susan Collins Senate race to 'toss up' The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE (R-Maine) on Sunday said President Trump owes the American people an explanation for his accusations that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower.
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Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersJoe Biden faces an uncertain path Bernie Sanders vows to go to 'war with white nationalism and racism' as president Biden: 'There's an awful lot of really good Republicans out there' MORE (I-Vt.) on Monday criticized President Trump for his claims that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 85033 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.
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Even without going into the more sordid details of the impeachment process (like the fact that 60 percent of Brazil's congressmen are facing actual criminal charges, or the leaked audios of politicians discussing using Rousseff's ouster to stop a sweeping corruption investigation, or the wiretapped conversation in which now-President Temer's anti-corruption minister advises the Senate president on how to evade prosecutors in said investigation), it is clear that these proceedings were not a victory, but an affront to Brazilian rule of law.
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But the past week has also featured a buffet of options for those who disapprove of Trump's performance: His budget is an extension of his health care bill, in terms of hurting the vulnerable and helping the wealthy; his insistence that he was "wiretapped" by Barack Obama damaged two key alliances and suggests he is mentally unfit to lead the country; and he found time to tweet about Snoop Dogg, but did little to improve his lousy health care bill, suggesting that he is neither the leader nor the negotiator that he claimed he was.
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Whether you're a consumer, a techie or a D.C. lifer, we're here to give you ... THE BIG STORY: --TRUMP TRANSITION STAFF MAY HAVE BEEN CAUGHT TALKING TO WIRETAPPED PEOPLE: The U.S. intelligence community incidentally collected information on members of President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE's transition team and the information was "widely disseminated" in intelligence reports, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said Wednesday.
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The government wiretapped the phone of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, during and after the 85033 presidential campaign, CNN reported on Monday Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that the government obtained a secret court order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in 2014.
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Justin AmashJustin AmashLawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar House Democrats targeting six more Trump districts for 2020 Sanford headed to New Hampshire amid talk of challenge to Trump MORE (Mich.) on Saturday called on President Trump to release information backing up his allegation that former President Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE had wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign.
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It is similarly difficult for most people to imagine believing that Hillary Clinton has had multiple people killed, that Obama is a secret Muslim who wasn't born in the US, that Trump had millions of votes stolen, that Barack Obama wiretapped Trump's White House, that Seth Rich (the mid-level Democratic staffer who was tragically murdered) was assassinated for stealing DNC emails and giving them to WikiLeaks, or that Antifa, the fringe anti-fascist movement, will begin going door-to-door, killing white people, starting on November 22020.
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