This is about the Obama administration’s spying, and the question isn’t whether it spied.” He added, “The question is who they did spy on, the extent of the spying —<br />that is, the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, Trump surrogates.”<br />The Times has reported that several of Mr. Trump’s associates are being investigated for their connections with Russians and<br />that law enforcement agencies have examined intercepted communications.<br />“I think the president was not correct, certainly, in saying<br />that President Obama ordered a tap on a server in Trump Tower,” former Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey said on “This Week.” “However, I think he’s right in that there was surveillance and that it was conducted at the behest of the attorney — of the Justice Department,” through the special court that authorizes eavesdropping on suspected foreign agents inside the United States.<br />At the same time, he said, “I would be very worried if, in fact, the Obama administration was<br />able to obtain a warrant lawfully about Trump campaign activity with a foreign government.”<br />This was hardly the first time Mr. Trump made a shocking accusation without evidence.<br />And last summer, he asserted that Mr. Obama was “the founder of ISIS.”<br />The White House remained firm on Sunday even after Mr. Obama’s office denied ordering a wiretap and James R. Clapper Jr., the former director of national intelligence, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”<br />that there had been no wiretapping of Mr. Trump or his campaign.<br />Mr. Trump’s aides — including Mr. Bannon, an anti-establishment figure who has long questioned the motives of parts of the extensive intelligence bureaucracy — have believed for a long time<br />that the Obama administration colluded with federal investigators who were searching for activity between Russian officials and the Trump campaign surrounding the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails.
