“I think that President Obama is behind it, because his people are certainly behind it,” Mr. Trump said in a recent interview with “Fox & Friends.” “And some of the leaks possibly come from<br />that group, you know, some of the leaks, which are really very serious leaks, because they’re very bad in terms of national security.”<br />What you need to know to start your day, delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday.<br />Trump’s Wiretapping Claims Puncture Veneer of Presidential Civility -<br />By PETER BAKERMARCH 6, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — When last they saw each other six weeks ago after the ceremonial passing of power, President Trump<br />and former President Barack Obama parted with smiles and handshakes.<br />“That is best characterized as not backing down from attacks; it is not seeking out conflict.”<br />But inside the Trump White House, it has become an article of faith<br />that people seeded throughout the government by Mr. Obama have been leaking everything they could get their hands on to damage the new president.<br />“The Nixon tapes show that Nixon always thought that Johnson taped his 1968 campaign,<br />and possibly Nixon himself,” said Luke A. Nichter, a leading scholar of Nixon’s secret Oval Office tapes at Texas A&M University.<br />While Mr. Obama has remained quiet for the most part, some of his closest loyalists moved into opposition mode, leading what some only half-jokingly call “the resistance.” Mr. Trump, convinced<br />that Obama holdovers still in government are trying to sabotage his presidency, took the conflict nuclear over the weekend by accusing his predecessor of bugging his telephones last year.
