NY TimesReporter Blames Infowars for Spreading Trump Wiretap Story HE WROTE!

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New York Times Reporter Blames Infowars for Spreading Trump Wiretap Story HE WROTE!

On January 20, 2017, The New York Times littered their front page with a story hitting aides to Donald Trump.

The article titled: “Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.”

The report was written by Michael Schmidt, Matthew Rosenberg, Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo.

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On Thursday New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg went on CNN and blamed Infowars for spreading wiretap rumors on the Trump Transition Team.

You just can’t make this stuff up!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/unreal-new-york-times-reporter-blames-infowars-spreading-trump-wiretap-story-wrote/

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Not exactly the truth...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/about-that-new-york-times-wiretapping-article-trump-has-it-all-wrong/2017/03/16/7f57d99e-0a86-11e7-93dc-00f9bdd74ed1_story.html


So, in fact, the word “wiretapped” appears. But at no point does the article, produced under the bylines of four reporters, make the assertion that Obama “ordered” a wiretapping of candidate Trump or that any such surveillance took place at Trump Tower in New York.

Instead, the Times story speaks to a broader and more diffuse FBI investigation of possible links between unnamed Russian officials and Trump associates. The article identified the associates under investigation as former campaign manager Paul Manafort and advisers Carter Page and Roger Stone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/us/politics/fact-check-trumps-day-of-falsehoods-and-misleading-claims.html?_r=0


The Times article Mr. Trump referred to did use the word “wiretap” but it did not assert that Mr. Obama had ordered surveillance of Mr. Trump, nor did it even mention Mr. Obama. Rather, the story referred to intercepted information collected overseas.
The headline in print read, “Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides.” And the word appeared twice in the text of the article: “intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House” and “If Mr. Sessions is confirmed, he will for a time be the only person in the government authorized to seek foreign intelligence wiretaps on American soil.”