Justice Department DEBUNKS Trump Claim 'Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower'
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Channel: The Progressive Voice · 2017 · News & Politics
Justice Department DEBUNKS Trump Claim 'Obama Wiretapped Trump Tower' Justice Dept: No evidence of Trump Tower wiretapping. The Justice Department confirmed in a court briefing filed late Friday that neither it nor the FBI has evidence that Trump Tower was the target of surveillance efforts by the Obama administration during the 2016 presidential election. The Motion for Summary Judgement was filed in D.C. district court in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the watchdog group American Oversight, which is seeking government records of surveillance in Trump Tower. The motion confirms that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department's National Security Division have records documenting wiretaps as alleged by President Trump in a series of tweets earlier this year. In March, Trump wrote on Twitter that he had he discovered that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the runup to the November election, which he called "McCarthyism." But the Trump administration did not provide evidence that such surveillance took place, and a spokesman for Obama rejected that the administration wiretapped the real estate mogul's building. Likewise, former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired in May, denied that the Obama administration surveilled the Trump campaign. "The FBI and Department of Justice have now sided with former Director Comey and confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama ‘wiretapped’ him at Trump Tower," Austin Evers, America Oversight's executive director, said in a statement. -- Connect With The Host! - BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.patreon.com/theprogressivevoice - DONATE ON PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.me/theprogressivevoice = DONATE ON STREAMLABS!: https://streamlabs.com/TheProgressiveVoice - BUY AN OFFICIAL PROGRESSIVE VOICE MUG! https://teespring.com/theprogressivevoice - FOLLOW ME ON TWITCH FOR DAILY LIVE STREAMS! https://www.twitch.tv/theprogressivevoice - FOLLOW ME ON VIDME https://vid.me/TheProgressiveVoice - LIKE MY NEW FACEBOOK PAGE https://www.facebook.com/The-Progressive-Voice-144803039365734/ - LISTEN TO THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE PODCAST ON ITUNES https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-progressive-voice/id1265065271?mt=2 - LISTEN TO THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE PODCAST ON SPREAKER https://www.spreaker.com/user/theprogressivevoice - SUBSCRIBE TO THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE: https://www.youtube.com/c/theprogressivevoice - FOLLOW THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/progressvoice
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