TWO leading US Congress members said on Sunday that they would probe President Donald Trump’s claims that his predecessor Barack Obama had had his office bugged during his election campaign.

Mr Trump tweeted his claims on Saturday, demanding they be included in the probe into alleged contacts between his team and Russian agents, which he has called “McCarthyism.”

Republican Senate intelligence committee chairman Richard Burr said his panel “will follow the evidence where it leads.”

And House intelligence committee chair representative Devin Nunes, another Republican, said his board would probe “whether the government was conducting surveillance activities on any political party’s campaign officials or surrogates.”

Mr Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, who quit when Mr Trump took office, denied the president’s claims.

An anonymous civil servant claimed FBI director James Comey had already asked the Justice Department to refute Mr Trump’s claim but there was no official statement from the agency