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struggle4progress

(118,293 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 01:24 AM Apr 2017

Shifting Surveillance Claims

DAVID A. GRAHAM
APR 12, 2017

It’s .. been more than a month since .. Trump tweeted, without .. evidence, that .. Obama had Trump’s “wires tapped” ...

Since then, the president has refused to back down ...

He has also tried to change his story.

First, Trump argued that he .. just meant that he had been surveilled, rather than literally wiretapped.

Wednesday .. Trump .. once again tried to change his story, arguing that he was referring to .. “unmasking,” where .. transition team officials were named in .. intelligence reports, at the request of Obama officials ...


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/trump-keeps-changing-his-story-about-wiretapping/522762/

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