Bill Kristol: 'Pretty Specific Allegation' by Trump on Wiretaps

Conservative writer Bill Kristol Saturday called President Donald Trump's Twitter storm about being wire-tapped by the Obama administration during the campaign "a pretty specific allegation" — saying that it was "nothing like Trump's attacks on the media, or even his general complaints about the intelligence community."

Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, opined via Twitter:

1. This morning's tweets are nothing like Trump's attacks on the media, or even his general complaints about the intelligence community.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 4, 20173. ...that was used to justify the wiretapping. If it's not true, then...words fail me.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 4, 2017

So the president is accusing the FBI director (& FISA court?) of political use of FBI against his campaign at direction of his predecessor.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 4, 2017

Spoke w/ 2 conscientious members of Congress--they're trying to think through institutional & constl implications of what Trump's unleashed.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 4, 2017

Do we know what judges would have been on the FISA court that would have approved an October wiretap?
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 4, 2017

In a Twitter rant earlier Saturday, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of wire-tapping his telephone at Trump Tower as part an investigation into whether his campaign was communicating with the Russian government.

Trump has repeatedly denied having any personal ties to Moscow — and his tweets came after news reports this week that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met twice with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year while as an Alabama senator.

Sessions Thursday recused himself of any possible investigation of the Trump campaign's involvement with Russia.

Other conservatives also tweeted on Trump's accusations:

Yes, reopen criminal investigation into Obama administration use of IRS, FBI, and DOJ to go after opponents. https://t.co/8rLkh9fDPF
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 4, 2017

It stinks https://t.co/cQwL5jqjo5
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 4, 2017

Even more remarkable than the fact Obama wiretapped Trump was that he found NOTHING to hurt him. If only the DNC had been so lucky.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 4, 2017