A spokesman for Mr. Obama did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It would be difficult for federal agents, working within the law, to obtain a wiretap order to target Mr. Trump’s phone conversations. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn one message, which Mr. Trump sent from his Palm Beach, Fla., resort at 6:35 a.m., the president said he had “just found out” that his phones had been tapped before the election. Speculation online quickly turned to the possibility that Mr. Trump had been reading an article on the Breitbart News site or listening to the conservative radio host Mark Levin; both have embraced the theory in recent days. Mr. Trump appeared on Saturday to suggest that warrants had been issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, alleging that Mr. Obama’s administration had once been “turned down by court” in its supposed efforts to listen in on conversations by Mr. Trump and his associates.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2017 15:37 UTC