What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning WIretap Tweets

President Trump’s tweets exemplify a fairly basic but often highly effective rhetorical maneuver—the diversionary reverse accusation.
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The following article by David Remnick and Evan Osnos was psoted on thewebsite March 4, 2017:

Between six and six-thirty this morning, the President of the United States, who had returned to his Mar-a-Lago estate, in Florida, unleashed a series of tweets accusing his predecessor of tapping his phones just before Election Day: “a new low!” “This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!” Two hours later, he tweeted again, this time about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to leave “The New Celebrity Apprentice”: “Sad end to great show.” Continue reading “What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning WIretap Tweets”