really tough position, trying to substantiate this tweet. there doesn't seem to be any evidence that backs this up. this week the white house seemed to task house intelligence chairman devin nunes with putting this claim to rest. they had nunes come out. he said that there was no evidence to back this up. they kept referring reporters to the house and senate intelligence committees when asked of evidence of these claims. then when you look at how president trump himself has referred to the wiretapping claims in the weeks since he's made them, he's sort of tried to move the goalpost as to what counts as wiretapping. it's no longer what we would think of in the traditional sense of communications, but now the white house is indicating maybe if there's evidence of incidental collection they would consider that as a substantiation of president trump's claims. that's not necessarily going to get him out of this trouble politically, though, because in the traditional sense that's not what wiretapping means.