{"id":20348,"date":"2017-03-14T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2017-03-14T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T00:46:07","slug":"so-wiretap-doesnt-mean-wiretap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20348","title":{"rendered":"So, ‘wiretap’ doesn’t mean wiretap?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The White House has issued one of the strangest “clarifications” in modern political history.<\/p>\n

It was that Donald J. Trump didn’t mean “wiretap” when he referred to it in a series of tweets regarding an allegation he leveled at President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

He had said that Obama had ordered a “wiretap” of his Trump Tower offices during the 2016 presidential campaign. Yes, he used\u00a0 a very close variation of that word.<\/p>\n

But, but, but …<\/p>\n

The White House said today he didn’t actually mean “wiretap.”.<\/p>\n

Do you follow me? I didn’t think so. I cannot follow it, either.<\/p>\n

Here’s one of Trump’s tweets: “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon\/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”<\/p>\n

OK, so he didn’t use the word “wiretap” in this tweet. “Tapp my phones,” though, means the same thing. Doesn’t it? I thought so.<\/p>\n

Oh, but no-o-o-o. The president didn’t mean it, according to the White House press office.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has asked for a bit more time to provide proof — presuming that some might exist — that backs up the president’s scurrilous accusation that former President Obama broke the law.<\/p>\n\n

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The White House has issued one of the strangest “clarifications” in modern political history. It was that Donald J. Trump didn’t mean “wiretap” when he referred to it in a series of tweets regarding an allegation he leveled at President Barack Obama. He had said that Obama had ordered a “wiretap” of his Trump Tower … Continue reading So, ‘wiretap’ doesn’t mean wiretap?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,1424,2617,6974],"class_list":["post-20348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-justice-department","tag-wiretap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20351,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20348\/revisions\/20351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}