Obama spying contra-Trump allegations

President of the United States Donald Trump and some of his supporters allege that his predecessor as president, Barack Obama, and his administration conspired to politically surveil Trump's presidential campaign and presidential transition via inappropriate U.S. Justice Department legal investigations, the United States Intelligence Community and the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Trump has nicknamed the series of events, which he calls a major scandal and his critics call an unfounded conspiracy theory, Obamagate.[1][2][3][4]

See also: Veracity of statements by Donald Trump § Obamagate

Spying allegations

Major elements involved

Major figures from the Trump campaign allegedly spied upon

Major figures from the Obama administration allegedly involved

Investigations launched

Trump administration officials or its allies involved

Yates testimony during Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation

The concept underlies in part a 2020 U.S. Senate investigation[33][34] into the 2016–onward FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation.[35] Former deputy attorney general Sally Yates on August 5, 2020, testified before the Committee that investigators were concerned that the national security adviser to president elect Trump, Michael Flynn, was conversing in private with the Russian ambassador. According to Yates, Obama was interested in whether Flynn ought to be considered a safe recipient for sensitive briefings and Obama "did not in any way attempt to direct or influence any kind of investigation. Something like that would have set off alarms for me."[36][37] (According to news reports, a belief that Flynn may have violated the Logan Act – a rarely prosecuted and vague law which constrains individuals from countervailing the existing foreign policy of the United States by way of secretive meetings – that supplied the initial rationale for the FBI to target Flynn.[38][39])

Johnson comments and accusations of political motives

Accusations have been leveled that Senate Republicans are using investigations of "Obamagate" to help provide the Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign with talking points.[40][41]

Sen. Ron Johnson received criticism for stating "the more that we expose of the corruption of the transition process between Obama and Trump, the more we expose of the corruption within those agencies, I would think it would certainly help Donald Trump win reelection and certainly be pretty good, I would say, evidence about not voting for Vice President Biden"[42]

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