Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes says that Trump is wrong about his contention that Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump Tower in a tweet tirade this morning:
No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017
He’s referencing this tweet:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
BUT, to be fair to Trump, and you all know how much I hate having to do that, Ben Rhodes is nitpicking in order to deny the allegation, which may still be true.
Can president “order” a wiretap on citizens? Well, he can ask a fisa [foreign intelligence surveillance] court to wiretap citizens, which is what some reports say he did on Trump and his aides. So is Rhodes purposely lying here to smear Trump?
OF COURSE HE IS.
This is the same scumbag who LAUGHED about lying to idiot reporters about the Iran Deal to get it passed. AND he openly mocked them about it in the New York friggin’ Times. Do you think a scumbag who lied to get the Iran Deal passed MIGHT JUST be lying about this to make Trump look bad? Yeah, probably.
I’m watching CNN right now, and they’re quoting this a-hole without informing the audience about him lying for the Iran Deal. Pretty great press we got here, huh?
Moron kept tweeting:
Dear Pundits who lauded his speech. Is it still "presidential" to call your dignified predecessor "Bad (or sick) guy!" https://t.co/kQ0OXC4HUi
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017
How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Well. No, it’s not. But your guy, Obama called Bush “un-American,” so go to hell, you POS.
No. They couldn't. Only a liar could do that. https://t.co/G5v8q2Fm5k
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017
I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
OK, this is the only one that comes close to the truth. As the evidence stands now, it’s basically from anonymous sources. Which, by the way, Trump decried, saying that the news shouldn’t be allowed to cite anonymous sources.
BUT, that doesn’t mean that it didn’t happen.
And the fact that Ben Rhodes purposely misleads people about wiretapping makes me think there might be something there…