US president accuses predecessor of 'wiretapping' amid row over Russia connections

摘要

Further ructions continued to distance US president Donald Trump from much of the intelligence community (IC) in February and March. Most notably, on 4 March, Tramp used Twitter to accuse his predecessor, Barack Obama, of tapping his communications before the November 2016 election. "Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in'Trump Tower just before the victory", Trump claimed, before describing the situation as "McCarthyism" and "Nixon/Watergate".