TEHRAN, May 26 - President Donald Trump is suggesting that Democrats had an informant spy on his presidential campaign amid a US Justice Department's investigation into whether there was such an infiltration.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Trump said in a tweet Friday that the FBI had used a top-secret informant to surveil his team long before the bureau started investigating the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
His tweet comes after he demanded on Sunday that the Justice Department investigate whether the department or the FBI spied on his campaign at the behest of the administration of former President Barack Obama.
He said that Democrats and the FBI had planted a mole within his campaign to gain political advantage, suggesting that they did so under the guise that his associates were being influenced by Moscow.
In the past few days, Trump has specifically been complaining about an FBI informant embedded in his campaign, alleging that the infiltration would amount to a scandal "bigger than Watergate."
The informant reportedly met with Trump campaign advisers, George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, after learning that they had contacts with Russia.
Four former Trump associates have either pleaded guilty or been indicted in the Russia probe. This is while the president believes that the investigation is a "hoax," a “witch hunt,” or a “scam.”
Source: press TV
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