“I think that President Obama is behind it, because his people are certainly behind it,” Mr. Trump said in a recent interview with “Fox & Friends.” “And some of the leaks possibly come from
that group, you know, some of the leaks, which are really very serious leaks, because they’re very bad in terms of national security.”
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Trump’s Wiretapping Claims Puncture Veneer of Presidential Civility -
By PETER BAKERMARCH 6, 2017
WASHINGTON — When last they saw each other six weeks ago after the ceremonial passing of power, President Trump
and former President Barack Obama parted with smiles and handshakes.
“That is best characterized as not backing down from attacks; it is not seeking out conflict.”
But inside the Trump White House, it has become an article of faith
that people seeded throughout the government by Mr. Obama have been leaking everything they could get their hands on to damage the new president.
“The Nixon tapes show that Nixon always thought that Johnson taped his 1968 campaign,
and possibly Nixon himself,” said Luke A. Nichter, a leading scholar of Nixon’s secret Oval Office tapes at Texas A&M University.
While Mr. Obama has remained quiet for the most part, some of his closest loyalists moved into opposition mode, leading what some only half-jokingly call “the resistance.” Mr. Trump, convinced
that Obama holdovers still in government are trying to sabotage his presidency, took the conflict nuclear over the weekend by accusing his predecessor of bugging his telephones last year.
