How come no one has ever asked, WHO AUTHORIZED THE WIRE TAP OF MERKEL?

The truth is that tapping of a whole bunch of positions at this level likely happened in a flurry of such actions in the administration of the first Bush and became a sustained activity that didn't require reaffirmation of succeeding presidents--and that it stems from capabilities rather than intentional targeting of specific people. It's an element in the intelligence activities of all governments with the capability of collecting at this level (which isn't all that many of them).

It's irrelevant to the current issue, though. Merkel isn't an American citizen, and Trump's charge, first, was that Obama directly targeted him personally, as an American citizen and a presidential candidate (and it doesn't matter if it's "wire tapp" or "surveillance") and, as a fallback, that he directly arranged for the UK intelligence service to do it.

The issue is that we have a president who is a pathological liar and can be counted on to screw up his job and royally screw up centuries of alliances and government process precedence with a single resource-draining petulant, Hail Mary lie.

I suppose you can have a C- for deflection attempt, though.
 
Trump was wire tapped

PERIOD

Yeah, sure, Trump dufus. Since he's Putin's boy toy, I think wire tapping of him is justified. I wish it happened, because we'd have more recordings of him being a sleazebag--maybe even some phone sex between him and you. :D
 
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