Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping him

In an angry burst on Twitter, Donald Trump accused - without evidence - his predecessor of having spied on him during the presidential campaign. All against a background of Russian interference in the race for the White House.

The relapse was predictable. Four days after his congressional speech, during which he finally seemed to be donning the costume of president, Donald Trump plunged Saturday morning in hysteria, chaining several incendiary tweets. "Terrible! I just discovered that Obama had put my lines on tip in Trump Tower just before my victory. Nothing was discovered. It's McCarthyism! "He wrote shortly after 6:30 am. Three other messages were posted in the following minutes, one of which compared the situation to the Watergate scandal under Nixon and blamed Barack Obama for being a bad (or sick) guy !

In this series of tweets, the US president does not provide details or proof of his accusations. Did he receive classified information accrediting this espionage operation? Or, more likely, is he relaying, as usual, "information" gleaned from the Internet, especially on ultraconservative media? On the social networks, many point out that the anti-Obama salvo of Donald Trump follows the publication, Friday by Breitbart, of an article on the subject. This article was about a conservative radio host, Mark Levin, who accuses Obama of executing a "silent coup" against Trump using the methods of a "police state". On Saturday morning, Robert Costa, a political journalist from the Washington Post, assured that a number of people within the White House had circulated Breitbart's article, quoting a source in the administration.