U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has said that President Trump’s unfounded allegations about being wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama, is, in his words, “beneath the dignity of the presidency.”
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer has said that President Trump’s unfounded allegations about being wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama, is, in his words, “beneath the dignity of the presidency.”
He made the comment on NBC’s 'Meet the Press' which has quoted the Democratic leader as saying about Trump, “If he falsely spread this kind of misinformation...it's beneath the dignity of the presidency.”
The discussion was prompted by a series of controversial tweets Trump posted Saturday, the first of which read, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
He also tweeted, “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
According to ABC News, “Trump offered no proof for his claims.”
White House press secretary Sean Spicer has since issued a statement saying that Trump is asking for an investigation into “whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.”
Obama has denied any such activity, with his spokesman Kevin Lewis saying in a statement, “...neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”
Meanwhile, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi implied Trump was trying to distract from his administration’s alleged ties to Russia by tweeting, “The Deflector-in-Chief is at it again. An investigation by an independent commission is the only answer.”
