On Friday, Donald Trump released a new official statement, calling for key communications to be made public regarding the 2016 presidential elections.
The statement starts off immediately with Trump's imperative: "I immediately call for the release of all text messages sent to and from Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff during their attempt to overturn the 2016 presidential election."
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"They spied on my campaign, they spied on my transition team, and they even spied on the White House while I was in the Oval Office," the 45th President of the US continued, then getting into specifics of what is already public knowledge on the subject:
Trump has also previously gone on record as expressing a desire to appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2016 election, and possibilities of tampering, illegal spying or other illicit activity connected to it.
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