“Spicer says president used word ‘wiretapped’ in quotes to mean surveillance”
How is that backpeddling ?
Sean Spicer says president used word ‘wiretapped’ in quotes to mean surveillance
You Sir are an IDIOT!!
President Trump used the word “wiretapped” because that is what the NY Times, CNN,ABC,NBC,CBS, Wall St Journal ALL SAID!!
I don’t see any backtracking at all. In fact I see Trump SOP. Put something in it’s most troubling aspect, let the media set itself up, then yank the carpet out and expose them.
Do you think it would be a good idea for FR to start providing links on it’s homepage at, “Resource links” to all the leftist media sites so there is no need to fill up the side bar and forum with leftist fake news stories?
“White House Back-Pedals”
“[P]resident used word ‘wiretapped’ in quotes”
Is the WSJ just pretending to be conservative, or is it just pretending to be intelligent? The article’s behind a paywall, so I won’t know for sure.
Well yeah, “wiretap” is a colloquial term for “electronic surveillance”.
I heard people in my office laughing about this already. They’re making fun of Trump.
This could have been framed differently - like the MSM all had reported this numerous times before Trump brought it up.
This is all absurd. We all know exactly what President Trump meant. Technology evolves all the time and their are now many ways to “eaves drop” on people.
Wire tapped, monitored, intercepted, surveillance or whatever mean the same except with those who spend 24/7 lying about Trump!
Of course 0bama wiretapped Trump’s phones. Why wouldn’t he?
So, who taped Flynn in Trump Tower?
Why are they making a big deal over wiretapped vs surveillance???
Isn’t the real problem that Obama &/or somebody in his administration was spying on Trump & his people?
Isn’t this the real issue, not which word is used to describe it?
IMHO, there is at least a 99 44/100 percent chance that Trump’s communications were being wiretapped and that his premises were being surveilled, and probably bugged, by at least one government agency.
He might not be able to throw a dozen bugs and microphones on the table as proof but that is because the equipment and techniques of today are much more sophisticated than that.
After the corruption we have witnessed the 8 years of Obama and the lies, leaks and sedition we have witnessed the first two months of President Trump’s administration why would anyone trust the federal governments word on anything?
Something more advanced than wiretapping ?
How many people use the expression “dial the phone”? How many actually still use dial phones?
How many people refer to making a video as “filming”, and refer to the video as “footage”?
The technology advances, but the terminology doesn’t always keep up.
It is obvious that President Trump’s source is the New York Times very true and secret sourced article of Jan. 20, 2017. Are the Democrats suddenly saying that the NY Times is NOT a Credible source? Shame on them.
It doesn't matter if the NSA has transcripts of his conversations with foreign dignitaries. If Trump CANNOT produce this SPECIFIC proof, then it is clear that he LIED.
- Says every liberal journalist everywhere.
” Why The Wall Street Journal is cutting print sections and refocusing on its core coverage
Editor-in-chief Gerard Baker says the paper, which confronted a 21 percent decrease in advertising revenue in the most recent quarter, is trying to attract subscribers.”
Layoffs hit The Wall Street Journal
By Benjamin Mullin • November 2, 2016
America’s business newspaper of record is cutting its staff today, part of an effort to streamline its newsroom during an industry-wide print advertising slump.
On the chopping block is The Journal’s Greater New York section, which is being folded into the paper’s broader coverage of New York.
Staffers on the Greater New York section were notified of the layoffs in an announcement from Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Gerry Baker, according to a memo from the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, the union representing Wall Street Journal workers. They were then summoned to meet with department heads.
Wall Street Journal Said to Close or Scale Back European Bureaus
by Rebecca Penty
and Gerry Smith
February 6, 2017, 4:32 PM CST
Budapest, Madrid and Warsaw bureaus said targeted in cutbacks
Publisher said planning more cuts with WSJ 2020 program
The Wall Street Journal is significantly reducing its presence in Europe as the latest round of cutbacks from publisher Dow Jones sweeps through the continent, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Business
The Wall Street Journal to Combine Sections to Cope With Ad Decline
Print paper restructuring will mean less space for coverage of arts, local news; business coverage to remain largely the same
By Lukas I. Alpert
Biography
@lalpert1
lukas.alpert@wsj.com
Updated Nov. 2, 2016 2:56 p.m. ET
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The Wall Street Journal will debut a newly formatted version of its print edition starting Nov. 14, which will combine several sections and reduce the size of some coverage areas as the paper copes with an accelerating industrywide decline in print advertising.
Who else did he mean?
Backtrack? Everyone knows Trump was using “wiretap” as the catch all for “surveillance.”
The media is a joke.