The Director of the FBI asked the Justice Department to report that President Obama did not order a wire tap of Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. The Justice Department has not yet rebuked the false claim by Trump. However, the request by the Director of the FBI is very unusual. It implies that the President of the United States lied when he claimed that his phone was tapped.
The FBI Director was compelled to call the president a liar because the FBI would have been responsible for implementing any order to tap Trump's phone. Trump's false claim about an Obama wire tap shows that does not understand how the system works. The president would have required a warrant to order the FBI to tap Trump's phone. A warrant would only be issued if there was evidence of a crime by Trump. Our new president must believe that he could order a wire tap on a US citizen without a warrant. He seems to believe that a president can do whatever he pleases because he is above the law. Perhaps that is the kind of authority that he is jealous about when it is used in an authoritarian society.
Trump's false tweet may have been a bad idea. It raises concerns about what might have happening during his campaign that he wants to repress. It could cause his Republican defenders to agree to an independent prosecutor to investigate the relationship between his campaign and Russians involved in cyber warfare during the campaign oes not understand how the system work
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