Accusing former President Barack Obama of wiretapping his Trump Tower offices, 70-year-old President Donald Trump tried to change Washington’s narrative consumed by allegations that his campaign colluded with Russian officials to beat former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, insists the FBI has a dossier on Trump’s alleged conversations during the campaign with Russian officials. House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said he believes the FBI has been “forthright” in providing any an all intel on Trump campaign officials’ contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election. Schiff wants to show that Trump campaign officials worked with Russian authorities to sabotage Hillary’s campaign, something vehemently denied by the White House.

Trump tweeted today that Obama administration officials wiretapped his Trump Tower offices, something he’s been told by cyber security experts. “Terrible. Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Towers just before the victory. Nothing found. This in McCarthyism,” Trump tweeted. “Is it legal for a sitting president to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by a court earlier. A NEW LOW!” Trump tweeted, putting former White House officials on the defensive. Obama officials categorically deny that Obama ordered any “wire tapping,” but didn’t specifically reject the charges. “A cardinal rule of the Obama Administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice,” said DOJ spokesman Kevin Lewis. Lewis didn’t say non-White House officials couldn’t interfere.

Rejecting Trump’s charge, Lewis forgot about former Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch July 1, 2016 meeting with former President Bill Clinton on the tarmac of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. At the time, Lynch was under pressure to appoint an Independent Counsel to investigate Hillary for her use of a private email server and her transactions with Clinton Foundations donors as Secretary of State. “As part of that practice, neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizens. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false,” said Lewis, not clarifying whether non-White House officials could have asked for the surveillance. WikiLeaks revelations about Hillary and her campaign Chairman John Podesta, embarrassed her campaign. White House political operatives—not officials—would have done anything to get back at the Trump campaign.

Former Deputy White House National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes dismissed Trump’s surveillance charge against Obama. “No president can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you,” Rhodes tweeted. While the president didn’t order a wiretap, it’s possible for political operatives to get things done. Again, Rhodes didn’t deny the wiretap, he simply said the no president would order one. Rhodes believes, like Lewis, that FBI officials have a dossier on Trump, just like the one given to them by 80-year-old Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), insisting that former MI6 agent Christopher Steele had the goods on Trump. FBI officials couldn’t corroborate the contents of Steele’s dossier. Trump referred to Steele’s dossier as “garbage,” more lies from the Hillary campaign looking for any dirt to discredit Trump before Nov.8, 2016.

Expecting to drag Sessions before the House Judiciary Committee for not disclosing he met with Russian Amb. Sergey Kislyak before the election, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) wants to pin Sessions with perjury. One small problem, Sessions answered “no” to meeting with Kislyak as part of the Trump campaign. Clarifying the question won’t stop Trump’s detractors from linking Trump campaign operatives to Russian officials. Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn got caught in the Russia vise, failing to tell Vice President Mike Pence about his meeting with Kislyak Dec. 28 after President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats. Sessions has no problem returning to the Judiciary Committee to clarify his “no” response to speaking to any Russian official before the election. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee worry about Sessions going after Hillary.

Going after Sessions for his ties to Moscow, Democrats hope to push former Clinton Chairman John Podesta’s theory that Trump’s collusion with Russian President Vladir Putin got him elected. When you consider Hillary got nearly 3 million more popular votes, it’s inconceivable that anything Putin did helped Trump. Whether Putin had a preference in the election, that’s a far cry from meddling in U.S. elections. Anyone with any contact with Russia now plays into the Podesta narrative of Trump campaign collusion with the Kremlin. Trump admitted today that resetting U.S.-Russian relations is going to be much harder with Russo-Hysteria sweeping Washington. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Democrats’ accusations about Trump’s ties to Moscow a “political witch-hunt.” If Sessions appoints a Special Prosecutor to look into Hillary’s business dealings, the Trump witch-hunt will stop.