WASHINGTON: US President Donald
Trump demanded on Twitter on Sunday that the
Justice Department
look into whether his 2016 presidential
campaign was infiltrated or surveilled by the agency or the FBI under the Obama administration.Trump’s simmering anger over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s year-old Russia probe appeared to spill over
into a series of well-worn recriminations in several tweets, including that the investigation was politically motivated and had its roots in the administration of his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.Federal investigators are looking
into whether Russia tried to sway the election and if it worked with the
Trump campaign to do so.
Trump has denied any collusion and repeatedly dismissed the investigation as a “witch hunt.”“I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of
Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the
Trump campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!”
Trump wrote on Twitter.Trump also escalated his attacks on the
Justice Department on Friday, suggesting that the FBI may have planted or recruited an informant in his 2016 presidential campaign. He cited unidentified reports that at least one FBI representative was “implanted” for political purposes
into his campaign. Neither
Trump nor Rudy Giuliani, a former New York mayor who is now one of Trump’s lawyers, provided any evidence of government infiltration
into Trump’s presidential campaign.
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