The Justice Department confirmed in a court filing late Friday that neither it nor the FBI has evidence that Trump Tower was the target of surveillance efforts by the Obama administration during the 2016 presidential election.
The Motion for Summary Judgement was filed in D.C. district court in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the watchdog group American Oversight, which is seeking government records of surveillance in Trump Tower.
The motion confirms that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department’s National Security Division have records documenting wiretaps as alleged by President Trump in a series of tweets earlier this year.
The Friday filing marked the Justice Department’s first official denial of the substance of Trump’s wiretapping tweets earlier this year.
In March, Trump wrote on Twitter that he had discovered that former President Barack Obama had Trump Tower wiretapped during the run-up to the November election, which he called “McCarthyism.”
But the Trump administration did not provide evidence that such surveillance took place, and a spokesman for Obama rejected that the administration wiretapped the real estate mogul’s building.
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#BREAKING: Justice Department contradicts Trump: There's no evidence Obama wiretapped Trump Tower https://t.co/UbVi0vaCBO pic.twitter.com/uMvf8obRyn
— The Hill (@thehill) September 2, 2017
We all kind of figured that was the case from the get-go. Trump has a habit of throwing out wild accusations like that. Not surprised this wasn’t released until “late Friday”.
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