usmbguest5318
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Donald Trump is POTUS, but his powers as such do not extend to the English lexicon unless he can get Congress to pass laws that officially define the words of the English language as used in the U.S. Seeing as he and Congress can't even overturn O-care -- something they've been on about for seven years -- maybe sticking to something simpler like compiling a list of definitions is what they should do. You know....baby steps....
Under the law, it's no different: Wiretapping means connecting a concealed listening or recording device connected to a communications circuit.
Tapper: Just to be clear....There's still no evidence that President Trump himself was wiretapped?
Nunes: That's correct. [repeats that statement a second time]
- intransitive verb : to tap a telephone or telegraph wire in order to get information
- transitive verb : to tap the telephone of
That's all it means. I doesn't mean surveillance in general or any other type of surveillance.- It doesn't mean video surveillance.
- It doesn't mean placing a bug somewhere.
- It doesn't mean listening using an ear-trumpet or something similar.
- I doesn't mean using lasers, radar or sonar to pick up aural communication.
- It doesn't mean training a parrot, mynah bird or other creature to listen and then mimic everything it hears.
Tapper: Just to be clear....There's still no evidence that President Trump himself was wiretapped?
Nunes: That's correct. [repeats that statement a second time]