Obama administration denies Towergate: Insiders blast Donald Trump's claims Obama wire-tapped his phones at Trump Tower before the election in 'Nixon/Watergate' style scandal

The Obama administration has denied President Donald Trump's claims that Barack Obama wire-tapped his phones at Trump Tower before the election. Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement Saturday that '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'. Lewis added that 'neither President Obama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen' and 'any suggestion otherwise is simply false'. Lewis' statement comes shortly after Trump fired off a flurry of tweets early Saturday morning claiming that the former president had been spying on him in October, a month before his election victory. 'Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!' The president, who is currently vacationing at his private Mar-a-Lago estate, did not provide any additional evidence to back up his claims. A White House spokesperson didn't immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.