• Ohio Senate Candidate JD Vance during a rally said the FBI wiretapped Donald Trump's phone.
• Vance may have been referring to Obamagate, a conspiracy theory that Obama ordered the FBI to spy on Trump.
• Others around Trump have been surveilled by the FBI, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

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JD Vance falsely said at an Ohio rally on Saturday that the FBI illegally wiretapped former President Donald Trump during his presidency.

"But ladies and gentlemen, the thing that Trump revealed more than any policy achievement is that we are living in an incredibly corrupt country," Vance said during his speech.

Vance, appearing on stage in Delaware, Ohio, with Trump, continued: "Who would have believed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation, our FBI, would have gotten an illegal wiretap on a US president? Who would have believed?"

—Acyn (@Acyn) April 23, 2022

Although it is unclear what Vance was referring to specifically, he could have been speaking about the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page or campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

Page's wiretapping specifically has been criticized in the past because the applications submitted by the...

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