Barack Obama denies that as president he might be bugging his successor Donald Trump. His spokesman announced that any hint on the interception of citizens commissioned by Obama is ‘incorrect’.
Earlier today, Trump had his predecessor in a series of tweets accused of allowing eavesdropping on his phone. It would be phone calls Trump at Trump Tower in New York conducted in the run up to the elections in November 2016.
Trump called Obama “a poor / sick guy” and likened the alleged eavesdropping by Obama with the Watergate affair, the eavesdropping scandal that resulted in the early seventies to the fall of President Richard Nixon.
Trump did not come with evidence to substantiate his allegations. According to the newspaper The Washington Post Trump perhaps based on the far-right. Who suggested that Obama had used in the autumn methods of a police state “to keep Trump team into the holes.