Second, there is no evidence that any Trump associate's phones — let alone the phone lines at Trump Tower — were "tapped." Rather, the claim advanced in press reports has been that the FISA ultimately signed off on an order authorizing monitoring of the foreign banks in order to ferret out evidence of money transfers to four individuals linked to the Trump campaign. It is not even clear whether the "order" in question was a full-blown electronic surveillance order, which would be necessary to record phone conversations or real-time digital communications, or a more limited "business records order" which could be used to obtain financial transaction records or other corporate documents.