Quote:So, let's review.  

 

This is what Trump said: 

 

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!

Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!

I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!

How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!

 

Okay, that's exactly what Trump said, verbatim.   

 

Now, what does the article you cite say? 

 

"Members of the Donald Trump transition team, possibly including Trump himself, were under U.S. government surveillance following November’s presidential election, House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters Wednesday."

"Nunes said the monitoring appeared to be done legally..."

"Nunes described the surveillance as most likely being “incidental collection.” This can occur when a person inside the United States communicates with a foreign target of U.S. surveillance."

 

1) Does the article cited say Obama did it?   No.

2) Does the article cited say it was done illegally?  No.

3) Does the article say it was done before the election, as Trump alleged?  No. 

 

So what the hell is this article supposed to prove?  Or even allege?   It alleges that someone from a foreign power was under routine surveillance, and someone from the Trump team was caught communicating with this foreign person.  

 

What's the real bottom line here?  

 

Someone from the Trump team was communicating with someone from a foreign power who was under surveillance by our intelligence agencies.

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...the information that he had seen and was disseminated across the intelligence community appeared to him to have "little or no apparent intelligence value."