Trump says Obama Administration Spied on his 2016 Election Campaign

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US President Donald Trump has revived his unproven conspiracy theory ‘Obamagate’. He again contended the Obama administration spied on his 2016 campaign. Trump said several times during briefing alongside his Polish counterpart in the Oval Office. He said, “The Obama administration spied on a campaign”. Trump made the remarks as part of a congratulatory message he sent to the retired Army 3-star general and his first White House national security adviser, Michael Flynn. A US federal judge earlier ordered the Justice Department to drop its case against Flynn. He had been charged with twice lying to federal investigators about his communications with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition.

Point to be noted that Trump critics including a large number of US Congressional Democrats have alleged the President and Attorney General William Barr of intervening in the probe and orchestrating a decision to drop the charges. But, President Trump was focused on his predecessor during his first of the day’s two planned media appearances. He said of his conspiracy theory about the Obama administration that there’s never been anything like that around. President also claimed if a Republican administration had done what he claims Barack Obama’s did, those GOP officials would be in jail for 50 years.

It is noteworthy that the Obamagate theory maintains that the 44^th US President and his top intelligence chiefs sought to entrap incoming Trump officials in legal controversies to kneecap Trump’s presidency from the beginning. There are some aspects of the president’s theory yet to be corroborated. But he and his top aides and surrogates are pushing the narratives by asking questions about the motives of a number of individuals who were senior members of the Obama administration’s national security, intelligence, and foreign policy team. It is important that President didn’t respond to questions about whether he has spoken to Flynn about Wednesday’s court ruling.