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1st LD: Obama spokesman says Trump's wire-tapping claims "simply false"

Xinhua, March 5, 2017 Adjust font size:

U.S. President Donald Trump's accusation that his predecessor Barack Obama had his "wires tapped" in Trump Tower before Election Day is "simply false," Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said Saturday.

"A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice," Lewis said in a statement.

"As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false," said Lewis.

Trump claimed in a tweet storm Saturday morning that Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower before his election victory, but offered no evidence. Enditem