If you thought this was going to be a quiet weekend in Political Land, you were wrong. Very, very wrong.

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, President Trump tweeted out this bombshell accusation:

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017

And, this being Donald Trump, he wasn’t finished.

Dear readers, I was in college during the Watergate scandal and remember how it rocked the nation. If the wiretap story is true, this could be Watergate on steroids.

CNN’s early report claims that neither the White House nor the Obama camp had provided them any response.

Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes angrily posted that no, there’s nothing to see here — move along.

No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) March 4, 2017

Oh, but not so fast. Law professor and blogger Glenn Reynolds notes that “LBJ used government resources to spy on opponents. Why should we think Obama wouldn’t?”

National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy — no fan of President Trump — reported that the Obama administration did try to use the FISA courts to conduct surveillance on some Trump associates:

Instead, the Obama Justice Department decided to pursue the matter as a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In June, it sought the FISA court’s permission to conduct surveillance on a number of Trump associates — and perhaps even Trump himself. It has been reported that Trump was “named” in the application, but it is not publicly known whether he (a) was named as a proposed wiretap target, or (b) was just mentioned in passing in the application.

Combine that with news of Obama’s dragon lady Valerie Jarrett moving into the former President’s DC mansion intent on fomenting an “insurgency” against President Trump, the living set-up being called a “nerve center.” As reported to the British Daily Mail by a friend of the Obama family, the goal is to “oust Trump from the presidency either by forcing his resignation or through his impeachment.”

I’m not sure what to believe here. However, seeing how some former presidents in a not-so-distant past had a penchant for wiretapping their rivals, Trump’s accusations may not be off the mark. And then there’s Obama, who has made it clear through his actions that he is not about to go quietly into a role as dignified former statesman. No one could seriously accuse former President George W. Bush of pulling these kinds of shenanigans in his post-presidency. But with Obama, that’s a whole other ball game.

So hunker down, everyone.

Not only a bumpy night, but the next four years, too. Fasten your seatbelts indeed.