The media’s obsession with President Trump’s tweet about being wiretapped by the previous administration continues, and it doesn’t seem to be leaving the news cycle anytime soon.
Here’s the recap:
• The Obama administration requested three separate times to surveil the Trump campaign through FISA court warrants in June and October of 2016, according to undisputed reporting done by Louise Mensch in the Wall Street Journal’s Heat Street.com.
• The Obama administration wiretapped Angela Merkel, arguably the most powerful leader in Europe and one of the America’s strongest allies for years. According to the Telegraph (U.K.), even after Barack Obama himself was notified of the wiretap in 2010, he allowed it to continue.
• The Obama administration wiretapped liberal Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich in a phone call he made to the Libyan government. In his own words, he met reporters from the Washington Times in a Chinese restaurant who played for him a private conversation he had two years prior. “I heard a lot of people laughing about it (Trump’s surveillance claim), but I had something happen to me. If a member of Congress can have his phone tapped, this can happen to anybody.”
President Obama and his supporters have repeatedly insinuated – with no proof whatsoever – that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 U.S. election. Again, there is zero proof and zero non-circumstantial evidence. But stories and insinuations continue, implying that people working for Trump colluded with Russia to “hack” the 2016 election.

“The biggest scandal since Watergate” we were told by supposed media elder statesman like Dan Rather (Seriously, Dan Rather? A man whose career was self-disgraced forever by a phony document scandal four presidential campaigns ago.) Again, there is zero proof.
So, President Donald Trump tweets on March 4 (over two weekends ago) “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
And then shortly after:
“How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
Two tweets. Two weekends ago. And the media is still obsessed about it, and won’t relent until he takes back his accusation, or provides indisputable proof.
President Trump’s tweets were intentionally provocative. That’s his M.O., and always has been.
What Trump was doing was clear, and it’s something he’s brilliant at- turning the narrative around on the media. Firing back. He was likely tired of the repeated baseless accusations about he and/or his campaign colluding with Russia to interfere in the election, so in typical Trump fashion, he turned it around on them. “You want to hurl unsubstantiated allegations on me? Fine. I’ll hurl some right back your way, directly at your (the elite media’s) favorite president, Barack Obama.” And they chomped on it, hook, line and sinker.
President Trump doesn’t need the media to get his message out, or to enact his agenda, and that infuriates them. (He has the ability to reach over 100 million individual accounts all over the world when you combine Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). So, they latch onto something they think is going to take him down a notch, yet again, and it doesn’t work– yet again.
President Trump continues to play the media like a fiddle.
How many times will they fall for it?

Michael Koolidge lives in Rochelle and hosts the regionally syndicated radio program The Michael Koolidge Show (www.koolidge.com) heard daily on radio stations statewide, including Rockford’s 1440 WROK from 9 to 11 a.m. live every weekday morning. Public officials and citizens can reach the show anytime at radio@koolidge.com or 815-561-7130.