Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski claimed that the Obama administration listened in on conversations between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The accusation from Lewandowski on Saturday, provided with no evidence, comes after another unproven accusation from President Trump that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.
Lewandowski said on Fox News that the administration “did spend time listening to conversations between then-Sen. Jeff Sessions and the ambassador to Russia while he was in his U.S. senate office.”
Host Jeanine Pirro asked if Lewandowski was referring to conversations between Kislyak and former national security adviser Mike Flynn, who resigned after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian officials.
Lewandowski, now a lobbyist, said that he was referring to Sessions.
“The fact that the federal intelligence surveillance act is being used to listen to political opponents of the U.S. is very dangerous,” Lewandowski added, referring to Trump’s claim.
Trump tweeted on Saturday that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in the runup to the 2016 election. A spokesman for Obama denied he ordered any wiretap, and former White House staff said that no president could unilaterally order a wiretap and that it must come through the Justice Department.
Republican House and Senate Intelligence Committee members say their probes into Russia’s interference with the 2016 election will include an investigation into any surveillance of the Trump campaign.
