Obama is ‘behind’ the town hall protests

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked during a briefing Monday why the administration wants to defend the ban in court if it’s writing a new one. The crackdown quickly leaked.

“I think President Obama’s behind it, because his people are certainly behind it”, Trump said when asked about the town hall protests against various Republican legislators throughout the country. So who did it?

After the segment aired Trump sent a tweet that said the “so-called angry crowds” were planned by “liberal activists”. “We owe it to the men and women who serve and to the American people to protect our nation’s security under all circumstances”.

Spicer’s losing round in Washington’s perpetual game of information Whack-a-mole was hardly a surprise.

If stocks are going to continue making Trump-inspired gains, said one analyst, the president will have to avoid populist themes during his address and focus on business-friendly policies.

“I have great respect for the press, for reporters and the whole profession, with all of that being said, I thought it would be better if I didn’t do the dinner that doesn’t mean I won’t do it next year”.

“‘A source says that Donald Trump is a awful, terrible human being.’ Let ’em say it to my face”.

In a conference call with reporters soon after, a senior official from the Office of Budget Management, White House, announced that the budget would include an increase of Dollars 54 billion in defence spending. The budget officials ignored requests to put the briefing on the record.

Fox News reported earlier this month that an anonymous former senior intelligence officer told them he believed the directors of the CIA and national intelligence during the Obama era were behind the Flynn leaks.

President Trump will deliver his first address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The president has said he won’t touch Social Security or Medicare. “They are adept at doing less with more, but their mission is only a piece of the national security pie”.

Journalists prefer sources go on the record; it lends more credibility to the stories. Despite some of the turmoil at the start of his administration and legal challenges to his executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Trump told the governors he had already made strides. I also think it is politics, that’s the way it is. “These are people who are anxious about the direction of the government”.

“T$3 o keep America safe, we must provide the men and women of the United States military with the tools they need to prevent war – if they must – they have to fight and they only have to win”, Trump proclaimed during his speech last night.

“I would have gone one-on-one with different people”.

Leaks have progressed beyond the days of clandestine meetings in darkened parking garages — although that still happens.

Some of the cuts could be severe in many programs, even though they, like defense, have been subject to cutbacks in recent years. “With Mick Mulvaney running the White House budget office, it is likely that OCO will be scaled back, and some migration will begin of nonemergency priorities in this account shifting over to the base budget”.

Trump himself touched on this theme in typically rambling and unfocused remarks to a meeting of the National Governors Association Monday. “This is a landmark event, a message to the world, in these unsafe times of American strength, security and resolve”, Trump said in his remarks.

Trump saluted the nation’s governors, joking that “it’s such an easy job you have”.

There are true leaks, like the partial Trump tax return sent anonymously in the U.S. mail to a “New York Times” reporter during the campaign.