Trump cited no evidence that former President Obama deployed what Trump described as a "Nixon/Watergate" effort to monitor his campaign. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. If federal investigators did monitor Trump's phones or computers lawfully, a court would have demanded information about potential criminal misconduct or unlawful foreign contacts. The suggestion that Obama ordered surveillance on Trump is "false," said a spokesman for Obama in response to Trump's tweets. "As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen," Lewis said.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 04, 2017 15:08 UTC