Donald Trump says his 2017 claim that Obama had wiretapped him was based on a 'little bit of a hunch'

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Trump revealed his “wiretap hunch” during his roughly 45-minute phone call to Sean Hannity that was aired live on Fox News’ “Hannity” Thursday evening.

President Donald Trump on Thursday revealed that his March 2017 claim that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower was made on “a little bit of a hunch” and called it “a coup.”

“I don’t know if you remember, a long time ago, I used the words 'wire tap' and I put it in quotes, meaning surveillance, spying, you can sort of say whatever you want,” the president continued. Attorney General William Barr told members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on April 10 that he believed the government did spy on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign during his second consecutive day of testimony on Capitol Hill.

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