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Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says Obama Tapped His Phones — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump on Saturday accused his predecessor, Barack Obama, of having tapped his phones at Trump Tower the month before the election, calling Mr. Obama on Twitter a “bad (or sick) guy.”

John Hinderaker / Power Line:

The Associated Press Springs to Obama's Defense — After President Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping his phones during the election campaign, the Associated Press hurried into print a defense of the former president: … No one fits a lot of details into a tweet …

Discussion: Associated Press

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Trump, citing no evidence, accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ plot to wiretap Trump Tower — President Trump on Saturday angrily accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a “Nixon/Watergate” plot to tap the phones at his Trump Tower headquarters last fall in the run-up to the election.

Julian Sanchez / Just Security:

Tapping Trump? — Once again, Donald Trump has kicked off a media firestorm with a series of early-morning Tweets, this time leveling the serious accusation that “President Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower” just prior to the presidential election. — Terrible!

Discussion: ABC News, emptywheel, RedState, Occupy Democrats, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Snopes.com, The Last Refuge, Politicus USA and The Guardian

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:

Graham: 'I'm very worried' about Trump's wiretapping accusation — (R-S.C.) on Saturday said he is “very worried” about President Trump's accusation that former President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower. — “I'm very worried that our president is suggesting the former president has done something illegal …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, ThinkProgress, The Week, Townhall.com and Infowars

Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Top Obama adviser to Trump: ‘No president can order a wiretap’

Discussion: Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Politico, Politicus USA, BizPac Review, RedState, ThinkProgress, CBS Philly, LifeZette, Joe.My.God. and CBS Dallas

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Donald Trump was a conspiracy-theory candidate. Now he's on the edge of being a conspiracy-theory president.

Discussion: Breitbart, RedState, Raw Story, New York Magazine, The Guardian, CBS New York, Fox 59, BizPac Review, Politicus USA and Mediaite

Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Mark Levin: Was Obama Using NSA Against Trump During 2016 Campaign?

Discussion: The Last Refuge, Mediaite, BBC, RedState, Power Line, Western Journalism, The Last Tradition, Scared Monkeys, Liberty Unyielding, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Doug Ross, IJR and Instapundit

CNN:
Trump falsely accuses Obama of wiretapping his phone

Discussion: Washington Post, Balloon Juice, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, The Talking Dog, RedState, Geller Report, The Hill, Western Journalism, The Gateway Pundit, NBC News, Hot Air, WHNT-TV, twitchy.com, FOX6Now.com, BizPac Review and Daily Wire

John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Trump Goes Nuclear With Claim Obama Wiretapped Him During Election [Updated]

Discussion: Raw Story and Infowars

Javier E. David / CNBC:
Trump accuses predecessor of ‘McCarthyism,’ wire-tapping during general election; Obama camp denies

Discussion: Occupy Democrats, Talking Points Memo, CANNONFIRE, Fort Smith/Fayetteville News, Politico and The Gateway Pundit

David Shepardson / Reuters:
Trump claims Obama wiretapped him during campaign; Obama refutes it

Discussion: The Last Tradition, Joe.My.God. and AOL

Alicia Melville-Smith / BuzzFeed:
Trump Repeats Talk Radio Rumor That Obama Wiretapped Him During Election

Discussion: Raw Story, The Hill, Common Dreams, Mediaite, The Moderate Voice, Politicus USA, Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Balloon Juice, twitchy.com and MARK-CM

Fox News:
Trump accuses Obama administration of wiretapping Trump Tower phones

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Special Prosecutor . . . For What?

Discussion: twitchy.com

Jonathan Karl / ABC News:

Trump flashes anger over Sessions recusal, Russia stories in tense Oval Office meeting — Before heading off to his so-called “winter White House” in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday, President Donald Trump summoned some of his senior staff to the Oval Office and went “ballistic,” senior White House sources told ABC News.

Discussion: Business Insider, New York Magazine and The Mahablog

Nancy Cook / Politico:

Trump fumes over Sessions' recusal from Russia probe — President Donald Trump, increasingly frustrated with his White House rollout, vented to top aides on Friday over Attorney General Jeff Sessions' recusal from any investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story and Vox

Nancy Cook / Politico:

Trump expected to sign new executive order on travel ban on Monday — President Donald Trump is expected to sign on Monday a new executive order on his controversial travel ban at the Department of Homeland Security, according to senior government officials familiar with the matter.

Discussion: The Hill, Mediaite, Political Wire and Axios

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Sessions Controversy Heightens Trump's Feeling of Being Under Siege

Discussion: Axios

Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:

A 13-Year-Old Girl Sobbed While Recording Her Immigrant Father Get Arrested By ICE Agents — Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was arrested this week while dropping off his daughter at a school in Los Angeles. — A sobbing 13-year-old girl recorded the arrest of her undocumented immigrant father …

Discussion: The Root

Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Deportation Arrest Highlights Tensions in Los Angeles on Immigration

Discussion: Associated Press

Andrea Castillo / Los Angeles Times:
Immigrant arrested by ICE after dropping daughter off at school, sending shockwaves through neighborhood

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, Washington Post and KTLA

The Seattle Times:

Sikh man in Kent says he was told ‘Go back to your own country’ before he was shot — Kent police are looking for a gunman who allegedly walked onto a man's driveway and shot him, saying “go back to your own country.”

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and The Stranger …

Breitbart:

Violent Alien Escapes After Attacking Border Agent, Tucson Police Refuse To Help — A management-level supervisor of the Tucson Police Department reportedly refused to assist U.S. Border Patrol agents in a search for an escaped criminal alien who assaulted a federal agent.

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding

Frank Bruni / New York Times:

Donald Trump vs. the Food Snobs — Donald Trump's riches, rages and romance with Russia all demand scrutiny. They shape our fates. — His meals don't, so leave the man to his supper. Let him eat steak. — Let him order it as he wishes and slather it with whatever he pleases.

Johnathan Silver / The Texas Tribune:

Health care sets tone for Texas congressman's contentious town hall — In a rare congressional town hall in North Texas, U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Lewisville, withstood two hours of booing from hundreds of angry constituents at a local high school. Few of his colleagues have hosted such forums lately.

Cass R Sunstein / Bloomberg:

Trump's Safe and Sane ‘Regulatory Reform’ Idea — In one of his few statements since joining government, presidential adviser Stephen Bannon announced that one of the Trump administration's principal goals was “the deconstruction of the administrative state.”