Trump asked to check the Obama administration for abuses of power

Update. According to The New York Times, FBI chief James Comey urged the Justice Department to formally refute Trump's allegations of wiretapping by the Obama administration.

US President Donald Trump has asked the US Congress to look into whether the Obama administration abused its powers in its investigations ahead of the 2016 election. This was stated in a statement released by the press service of the White House.

The review should be carried out by the intelligence committees that are investigating the actions of Russia, which, according to US intelligence agencies, tried to tilt the election outcome in favor of Trump.

"Reports of possibly politically motivated investigations leading up to the 2016 elections are of great concern," the statement said. The text emphasizes that until the completion of the review, neither the White House nor Trump himself will comment on this issue.

It is not specified which messages are in question, but the day before, Trump himself on Twitter accused Obama of organizing wiretapping of his phones before the elections. How he knew about it, Trump did not specify. Obama officials denied the allegations, saying the administration never interfered with Justice Department investigations. a rebuttal . made Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also

Later, former Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski said that the Obama administration was listening in on the conversations of Senator Jeff Sessions (now Attorney General) with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. He provided no evidence to back up his claims.