During a Tuesday interview with Trump, Beck, a conservative talk show host, asked when he knew he was being spied on and how he knew for sure.
“I think it was a combination of things,” Trump responded, “but I tell you, the world blew up [when spying allegations were floated during a 2016 television program].”
The Western Journal reports that during the 2016 campaign, “somebody suggested on a television show that then-President Barack Obama’s White House was spying on the Trump campaign.”
“I felt there was something strange going on, really strange, and I just put it out,” Trump told Beck.
Trump revealed:
“I got a call like two minutes later from the head of communications saying … ‘the wires are burning up. They’re smoking.'” The spike in phone activity was particularly unusual because it was a Saturday.
Trump has no doubts regarding what prompted the increased chatter:
“And now I know why,” Trump asserted, “because, they said, ‘Oh my God, they caught us.'”
There is nothing legal about spying on the US President. There is nothing legal about spying on a Presidential candidate. Watergate come to mind?
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