Trump was ridiculed for tweeting that "Obama tapped my wires," which might have been inelegant phraseology but we now know it was true nonetheless.

It's common practice for cabinet secretaries and other high level officials of an outgoing administration to give courtesy briefings to the incoming administration so they can hit the ground running when they assume office. On November 17, 2016, nine days after his election to the office of POTUS, Donald Trump was briefed by the then-Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers (who neglected to apprise his boss, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper that he was doing so) who told him that he (Trump) had been the target of unlawful spying by the US government.

So when Trump made that seemingly ludicrous statement he wasn't guessing or making it up, he was speaking with ontological certainty. He knew it for fact because the Director of the NSA had formally briefed him to that effect.

Furthermore, during his stint as the head of the NSA, Admiral Rogers also discovered that the FBI had been unlawfully spying on American citizens, prospecting for information to be used against the Republican Party, for the entirety of Sheikh Obama's (piss be upon him) second term.


If this seems so brazen as to be implausible, don't forget that the demoncrats operated with the certain belief that any and all of their misdeeds would be "swept under the rug" because:
A. the mainstream media was their co-conspirator, and
B. Obama's successor was equally certain to be Hitlery Klinton, and they none of them would ever be called to task for their criminality.