The following article by Linda Qiu was posted on the New York Times website May 24, 2018:
James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, said and has continued to say the exact opposite.
WHAT WAS SAID
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
Clapper has now admitted that there was Spying in my campaign. Large dollars were paid to the Spy, far beyond normal. Starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history. SPYGATE – a terrible thing!
THE FACTS
False.
President Trump made a version of this claim on Wednesday morning, misquoting James R. Clapper Jr., who was the director of national intelligence under President Barack Obama. It was not true at the time and it remains inaccurate.