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How the phony conspiracy theory over wiretapping caught fire

.. from yours .. "There's nothing true about this. Trump got it from a Breitbart piece that summarized a Mark Levin rant that relied
on a British story about a brief FBI investigation of a server at Trump Tower that was communicating with a Russian bank. " .. see below ..

Trump’s unfounded claim that President Obama wiretapped his telephone ricocheted throughout the country, shook Washington and stunned disbelieving U.S. allies.

Michael Finnegan and Mark Z. Barabak

March 22, 2017 3:45pm

When Michael Flynn, President Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, resigned last month, Mark Levin was outraged.

Not because Flynn had falsely denied speaking with the Russian ambassador about U.S. sanctions before Trump took office. Rather,
the conservative talk radio host was furious that U.S. surveillance had picked up Flynn’s venture into freelance diplomacy.

[...]

Obama and others who backed Clinton, Levin said without evidence, “used the instrumentalities of the federal government intelligence activities to surveil members of the Trump campaign and to put that information out in the public.”

Levin said he had spoken with his “buddy” Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who had written a column in the conservative National Review suggesting the “media-Democrat complex” was avoiding the story.

The information that Levin read from McCarthy was apparently based on a Nov. 7 report by Louise Mensch, a novelist and former British Parliament member, on Heat Street, a website run by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Murdoch is a key Trump supporter.
.. with links .. http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-trump-wiretap-conspiracy-20170322-story.html

Louise Mensch rings a bell a conspiracy minded, Rupert Murdoch orientated lady who believes
Putin had Breitbart killed .. some give her credit for beating US journalists to the FBI Trump server investigation ..
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspiracy-queen-louise-mensch-right-about-donald-trump.html .. more background
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/03/the-woman-running-rupert-murdoch-s-gawker-for-the-right.html .. on Mensch.