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[StephanieVanbryce]

"Obama 'Birth Certificate Investigator'.... SOOOOOOOOO funny!

and still sooooooooooooooooooooooooo DUMB!

woo wooooo - "deep and dark" . .EXPLAINED

you STILL SCARED?

[BOREALIS]

LIAR-LIAR Trump

‘No president can order a wiretap’: Former Obama adviser blisters ‘liar’ Trump over tapping accusations

Tom Boggioni
04 Mar 2017 at 13:18 ET

A ormer policy adviser to ex-President Barack Obama called out Donald Trump on Twitter Saturday for lying about about Obama having Trump Towers wire-tapped.

Saturday morning Trump accused Obama of bugging Trump Tower before the election, tweeting, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

As President, Trump would likely be able to prove that he predecessor had ordered warrantless wiretaps, and the newly-elected Trump could back up his statements. However, as former Obama foreign policy advisor Ben Rhodes noted, presidents, sitting or otherwise, don’t have the legal authority to do any such thing.

“No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you,” Rhodes tweeted back at Trump.

He then called Trump “a liar.”

You can see the tweets below:

No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017

Dear Pundits who lauded his speech. Is it still "presidential" to call your dignified predecessor "Bad (or sick) guy!" https://t.co/kQ0OXC4HUi
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017

No. They couldn't. Only a liar could do that. https://t.co/G5v8q2Fm5k
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017

Kevin Lewis, a spokesman for Obama issued a statement of Saturday reading: “A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”

Official Obama office response to @realDonaldTrump accusations today: pic.twitter.com/JgTcr894YU
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) March 4, 2017

[BOREALIS]

The Real President Returns As Obama Comes Back To Eviscerate Trump’s Wiretap Lies

By Jason Easley on Sat, Mar 4th, 2017 at 1:37 pm

President Obama reminded America of what a real president looks like by returning to demolish Trump's lie that the former president ordered a wiretap on Trump Tower.

Statement from Obama:

Notice that former President Obama stated the obvious. He never wiretapped Trump Tower, because presidents can’t order surveillance. What has not been denied by anyone is that a warrant was obtained from the FISA court and Trump Tower was under surveillance.

President Obama remains something that Donald Trump is not. Obama is a principled person of ethics who believes in checks, balances, and the separation of powers. Compare Obama’s statement to Donald Trump’s belief that a president can authorize wiretaps.

Trump’s view of the presidency is like that of a totalitarian child.

Donald Trump believes that this president is all powerful with no limitations. Trump never asked any experts if the president has the power to order wiretaps. He just ran with what he read on Breitbart and tweeted up a storm.

The senior citizen boy/child who wants to be taken seriously as president was just shown how it is done by Barack Obama. For the majority of Americans, Donald Trump will always be the pretender sitting in the Oval Office. Trump is the reality television star playacting what he thinks a president should be.

Barack Obama showed with one statement the difference between a pretend president and the real deal.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/04/real-president-returns-obama-eviscerate-trumps-wiretap-lies.html