Eaglewings
Platinum Member
The word "wiretap" has long been used as synecdoche for electronic surveillance in general, much as one might say "rod and reel" but also implicitly includes, hook, bait, tackle and more when they say what they used when they went fishing.
And fishing is all this story is since Trump used a very easily understood phrase to mean that the Obama regime had him under electronic surveillance.
But leave it to the leftwing hacks and ideologues to pretend otherwise.
What a spin ...lol
wire·tap
ˈwī(ə)rˌtap/
noun
- 1.
an act of using a listening device to conduct surveillance, typically over a phone line.
"illegal wiretaps of leading politicians"
- 1.
use a listening device to conduct surveillance on.
"the government illegally wiretapped the lawyers"