FBI admits it did wiretap the Trump Tower

The FBI has revealed they once wiretapped Tower Trump to uncover an illegal gambling ring.

In 2011 the FBI obtained a warrant to bug President Trump’s HQ to monitor a Russian crime organisation located just three floors below the hotel tycoon’s penthouse.

The two-year operation resulted in more than 30 people being charged with money laundering in April 2013, reports ABC News.

Around $50 million (£40 million) of illegal money was brought into the US via room 63A in the skyscraper.

But the ringleader, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, managed to get away and has since fled the US.

This comes after Trump claimed his own apartment at the Tower was bugged by order of Barrack Obama, in the months leading up to the election.

Despite there being no evidence to back this up.

Months after the arrests, Tokhtakhunov was seen at Miss Universe Moscow where Trump was also in attendance, according to the news site.