{"id":9320,"date":"2017-03-08T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/senators-ask-fbi-for-evidence-of-trump-wiretap-claim\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T18:22:02","slug":"senators-ask-fbi-for-evidence-of-trump-wiretap-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/senators-ask-fbi-for-evidence-of-trump-wiretap-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators ask FBI for evidence of Trump wiretap claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/9956\/production\/_95045293_gettyimages-87144669-1.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Two US senators have written to US law enforcement to inquire if there is any evidence to support President Donald Trump&#039;s claim that he was wiretapped.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Republican Lindsey Graham sent the letter to the FBI on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>They requested &quot;any warrant applications and court orders... related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump campaign, or Trump Tower.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump tweeted the unsubstantiated claim over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Just found out that Obama had my &#039;wires tapped&#039; in Trump Tower just before the victory,&quot; he posted in a series of tweets on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated requests, the White House has not supplied any evidence for the claim.<\/p>\n<p>It has called on Congress to look into the allegation as part of their investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Graham and Mr Whitehouse, two senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also addressed Wednesday&#039;s letter to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Congress must get to the bottom of President Trump&#039;s recent allegation that President Obama wiretapped President Trump&#039;s phones during the 2016 election,&quot; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/39210869 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Two US senators have written to US law enforcement to inquire if there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}