Obama was furious over allegations trump about wiretapping
NEW YORK, March 8. /Offset. TASS Ivan sawyers/. Ex-US President Barack Obama was angered by the charges the incumbent U.S. leader Donald trump in his address on the occasion of the authorization of the wiretapping of the Republican. This was reported by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
According to sources, Obama was furious when trump wrote on Twitter that the democratic administration had allegedly carried out surveillance at Trump Tower in new York for a few days before the Republican victory in the elections. The former President described the remarks as highly offensive to him. However, Obama, in the words of one of his assistants, does not intend to publicly answer every attack the new head of state.
“The basic rule in the Obama administration was that the White house staff never interfered in the independent investigation, which is conducted by the Ministry of justice, — quotes The Wall Street Journal the words of the official representative of ex-President Kevin Lewis. In connection with this principle, neither the President Obama nor one of the staff of the White house did not order surveillance of any citizen of the United States. Any claims that this is not so, simply not true”.
On Sunday, the White house issued a statement in which it addressed the U.S. Congress with a demand to hold a trial about the alleged abuse of authority of the Executive branch under Obama.