I have a few things to say on the inaccuracy of Trump’s #FISA tweets.
1) The President doesn’t order wiretaps.

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— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) March 4, 2017

2) Law Enforcement (FBI) requests wiretaps in the course of an investigation & applies to the FISA court which reviews and approves them.
3) A President could TRY to compel a wiretap absent that process, but a) it would be illegal, b) companies would refuse w/o warrant.
4) It is well known that an FBI investigation was going on into Trump campaign officials contacts with Russian gov’t.
5) Trump had decided to put his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower so that he could pay himself from campaign funds.
6) So Trump campaign officials, under investigation based on counterintelligence concerns were located in Trump Tower.
7) Pre-election reporting of Trump campaign officials contacts w/ & payments from Russian gov’t sources would go into a warrant request.
8) A judge would decide whether the evidence met the probable cause standard. But it didn’t have to be about Trump himself. B/c #5 above.
9) And Obama would know that Trump would find out about any such actions upon becoming Commander in Chief, so would insist on lawfulness.
10) But FISA warrants are secret, b/c you don’t want the target to know you are on to them.
11) So why would Trump tweet about a secret wiretap, considered classified?
Perhaps to warn people still using those phones.
12) In doing so, he is interfering in an ongoing criminal investigation which was occurring inside the organization that he runs.
13) Given all the attempts by other Republicans to distract from, down play, bury, or ignore evidence of Russian contact/interference…
14) Is retaining power more important to GOP than investigating a hostile power’s interference w/the system America uses to pick leaders?
15) The only way the GOP can show they truly put America first is by deeply and objectively investigating Russian interference.
16) Because, goddamn it, this is America. And Americans get to pick our leaders. Not some bear-wrestling autocrat in Moscow.