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So President Trump might have been “wiretapped” by Obama, as he claimed, but unfortunately he will not draw the right conclusions from the violation. He will not see runaway spying on Americans as a grotesque attack on  American values. That is unfortunate, because this could have provided a  great teaching moment for the president.

