White House Backing Off Wiretapping Claims Posted By: Michael Hines March 14, 2017 @ 9:02 am News Daypop Tweet Share Reddit +1 Pocket LinkedIn Presidential spokesman Sean Spicer said the president wasn’t using the word wiretapping literally when he claimed ex President Obama “wiretapped” him, noting that Trump had put the term in quotation marks. Trump wiretap claims: White House softens stance on unproven tweets Via www.bbc.co.uk 03/13/2017 8:05 PM