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Diego in Seattle wrote:You want proof that Russia aided Trump in the election in a coordinated effort? One thing that would go a long ways towards resolving the issue is for Trump to release his tax returns.

What is he hiding?

Are you suggesting that over the past few years, Trump has been putting information on his tax returns that he was coordinating (or planning to coordinate) his election campaign with Russia?

If not, how would his tax returns go a long ways toward resolving the issue, as you have stated above?

Rooster wrote:Trump's tweets are by their very nature imprecise. And yes, before you liberals get your panties all bunched up, that's nobody's fault but his. But it doesn't change the fact that a tweet is not a media that lends itself to precision and conciseness despite the 140 character limit. So claiming Trump said something about something or someone on Twitter and complaining about the imprecise delivery is like complaining about a casserole not being a single ingredient.

(CNN) - The White House on Monday walked back key point of President Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 election.

Namely, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Trump wasn't referring to wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.

"I think there's no question that the Obama administration, that there were actions about surveillance and other activities that occurred in the 2016 election," Spicer said. "The President used the word wiretaps in quotes to mean, broadly, surveillance and other activities."

Wiretapping is a narrowly defined surveillance activity that involves tapping into "a telephone or telegram wire in order to get information," according to Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Spicer also said that Trump was referring to the Obama administration broadly -- and not accusing Obama of personal involvement -- when he tweeted that "Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" and accused Obama of being a "bad" or "sick guy."

Spicer's comments came on the same say as the deadline for the Justice Department to provide evidence to the House Intelligence Committee to back up Trump's claim. The White House has so far refused to provide any evidence, and numerous former officials have denied the existence of any warrant to wiretap Trump Tower.

A week earlier, Spicer said Trump's tweet "speaks for itself" and declined to provide any further explanation.

But Monday, Spicer was open to providing an interpretation for Trump's tweet, saying the President told Spicer he was referring to means of surveillance beyond wiretapping in his tweets accusing Obama of doing just that.

But in each of the four tweets Trump fired off leveling the accusation, Trump referred specifically to phone tapping -- and only used quotation marks in two of those.

"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory," Trump said in his first tweet.

When is the President going to explain how the unemployment rate, which he
claimed was at '18, 19, maybe 20 percent' or 'probably 20 percent, could even be
21, 22', before settling on 'probably 25 percent' over and over again during the
campaign has now, in just one month (and merely by adding 235,000 jobs) plunged
to 4.7 percent, which he and Sean Spicer now say is not only the 'real' number,
but the 'very real' number.

I mean, that really *would* be a story - a president
reducing unemployment from 25 percent ('and probably higher than that - I even
heard 42 percent') to 4.7 percent within two months would be nothing short of
miraculous. So, either there's been a miraculous economic recovery the likes of
which the world has never seen before (in which the BLS numbers will be revised
to show that the February job growth wasn't 235,000 after all, but 5 million or
so) or ... he was lying the whole time. Hmm

Left Seater wrote:The rate is still not correct because it doesn't include those who have dropped out of the working pool.