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An explosive new book claims mature British High
Minister Tony Blair told Donald Trump there modified into a rumour that
UK intelligence products and services spied on the Trump campaign. -
Blair denies the allegations, with a spokesperson
calling it « categorically absurd. » -
A month after the disputed assembly allegedly took
attach, Trump publicly claimed Obama modified into wiretapping
him.
Tony Blair told President Donald Trump almost right this moment after his
inauguration that British intelligence products and services can have spied on
him, alleges an explosive new book about existence internal the White
Home by journalist Michael Wolff.
A spokesperson for the mature British High Minister denied the
myth, calling it « categorically absurd » and « merely faux. »
Wolff’s book, « Fire and Fury, » is according to 200 interviews with
White Home staffers and months of reporting, and ahead of its
publication later this month, news stores are publishing
excerpts and highlighting considerable allegations from it.
The declare about Blair modified into
published as a immediate excerpt in The Cases of London. Wolff
alleges that Blair wished to abet with the Center East
initiatives of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior aide
to the brand new president, and shared a « juicy rumour » he had heard.
« In February Blair visited Kushner in the White Home. On this
day out the brand new freelance diplomat, perchance attempting for to level to his
usefulness to this new White Home, mentioned a juicy rumour: the
risk that the British had had the Trump campaign workers
below surveillance, monitoring its phone calls and other
communications and perchance even Trump himself, » Wolff wrote.
The implication is that « though the Obama administration would
no longer have asked the British to impeach on the Trump campaign, » it would possibly probably
had been hinted at that it would possibly probably be tremendous if did.
Donald
Trump.
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A month after the purported assembly, in March 2017,
Trump despatched a tweet alleging, without evidence, that Obama had
wiretapped Trump Tower at some stage in the 2016 presidential election,
a declare denied by a spokesperson for Obama.
Then-White Home press secretary Sean Spicer subsequently
defended Trump’s tweets by citing comments from Fox News
commentator Andrew Napolitano, who alleged that Obama had
enlisted UK intelligence company GCHQ to abet surveil Trump and
his associates.
GCHQ denied the allegations, asserting in an announcement: « Most up-to-date
allegations made by media commentator divulge Andrew Napolitano
about GCHQ being asked to habits ‘wiretapping’ towards the then
president-elect are nonsense. They are completely ridiculous and
will need to be omitted. »
Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Tony Blair told Trade
Insider: « The allegations printed in The Cases are categorically
absurd. They are a entire fabrication, don’t have any basis basically
and are merely faux. »
No subject the yarn’s authenticity, its publication has
the skill to create headaches for British intelligence
products and services and set stress on the already-unusually strained
relationship between the UK and the US.
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