Barack and Michelle Obama were all smiles in the wake of President Donald Trump‘s unsubstantiated wiretapping claims.
The
couple stepped out in Washington, D.C. on Sunday in their first
appearance since a spokesman for the former president denied allegations
that he ordered wiretapping in Trump Tower during the election – claims
President Donald Trump made in a string of tweets without citing any evidence.
Obama,
55, and 53-year-old Michelle waved and smiled as they left the National
Gallery of Art, appearing at ease despite the recent media storm
surrounding Trump’s unsubstantiated claims.
In a series of Twitter posts early on Saturday, Trump tweeted out the accusation, writing,
“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump
Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Trump, 70, alleged that Obama bypassed a court rejection in order to carry out the alleged wiretapping, noting
that “a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that
President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to
Election!”
A spokesperson for Obama quickly denied the allegations, calling Trump’s claims “simply false.”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,” the spokesperson said. “As part of that
practice, neither President Obama nor any White house official ever
ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.”
The
FBI has denied Trump’s claims and the bureau’s director James Comey has
asked the Justice Department to refute the accusations, CNN reports.
Obama’s
former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who said he
would have been in a position to know of secret wiretapping, denied a court ordered any surveillance of the then-GOP nominee, as well.
Meanwhile, the White House asked Congress on Sunday to investigate Trump’s claims against the former president.
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