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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that President Donald Trump was not talking literally or specifically when he accused President Barack Obama of “wiretapping” his campaign.
The controversy comes from Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about being under surveillance by the Obama administration, which the president posted in a series of tweets more than a week ago.
“If you look at the president’s tweet, he said wiretapping in quotes. There’s been substantial discussion in several reports,” Spicer said, referencing “surveillance that occurred.”
“The president was very clear in his tweet, it was wiretapping. That spans a host of surveillance options,” he said. “The House and the Senate Intelligence Committees will now look into that and provide a report back. I think there’s been numerous reports from a variety of outlets over the last couple months that seem to indicate that there has been different types of surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election.”