FBI director James Comey has rejected President Trump's sensational claims that President Obama ordered a wiretap of his phones during last year's election. According to a report in the New York Times published Sunday evening, Comey contacted the Justice Department shortly after Trump made the allegations on Saturday to ask them to publicly deny the story. According to senior officials speaking to the newspaper, Comey made the call because Trump's claim wrongly insinuates that his organization broke the law.This apparent rebuke of a sitting president by America's top law enforcement official will be seen as a very significant move, especially given Comey's pivotal role in speaking out publicly last October about investigations into Hillary Clinton's email server—a move widely viewed as having a detrimental impact on her chances of being elected.In a mini-tweetstorm on Saturday, while he was at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trump accused Obama of tapping his phones in October, just before the election. "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" Trump tweeted.
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