Please. In the age of wireless, it’s an outdated but general use term that everyone knows the root meaning of. He was spied on, surveilled, whatever term of art they want to use.. I know what he meant..
Physical or literal it is still “tapping” (spying). The media does this sh*t all the time with words to make conservatives look stupid. Libtards eat it up. This is their Alinsky tactic at work. They attach out of context or fragmented quote and push it to a main headline in a news cycle with a heavily edited video which in turn shapes narrative.