Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping

Well, journalism major, your argument seems to me a rather thin gruel. Let's check and see what's not working. Your point is that CNN was unfair to Spicer and tried to make him look foolish when the assertion he made, as you see it, was perfectly "logical" and so didn't merit CNN's scorn. Time to check that Spicer logic. When questioned about the utter and complete lack of evidence for Trump's wire tapping assertions, Spicer countered first that the president used wire tap in quotes (which of course he didn't) and that Trump used the (non-existent quotes) to mean any and all surveillance activities, not just the wire tapp: by my count that's A) a lie (the weird quote thing) and B) a shameless bit of misdirection: Spicer doesn't have to answer for lack of evidence about wire tapping because maybe there might somehow be evidence for some other kind of surveillance that no one is even asked about yet. It's pretty feeble stuff, matched only by his laughable assertion that when Trump called the former president a "sick guy" he meant the former administration more broadly, and not Obama specifically. So yeah, you don't need to be upset at CNN. This isn't a moment where they manufactured idiocy where there was none, but rather this is yet one more instance of Mr. Spicer spreading some fresh idiocy all around, and CNN did its journalistic duty by mocking it and him.

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