By Aaron Miller-
President Donald Trump has blamelessly blamed former President Barack Obama for being behind the leaks within his administration and the huge protests across the country.
The controversial new U.S president expressed his strong suspicions during a Fox news interview in which he was asked if he believed Obama was responsible for the town hall protests against Republicans this month. His response was that the former president was behind it, but that that is the way politics is.
” I think that President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it. And some of the leaks possibly come from that group, which are really serious because they are very bad in terms of national security. But I also understand that is politics. In terms of him being behind things, that’s politics. And it will probably continue,” Trump said.
LACK OF EVIDENCE
Despite an absence of concrete evidence, there is some reason for his suspicion.Organizing for Action- a group formed from Obama’s campaign organization actively train local activists with useful skills to expression opposition to the GOP’s top agenda items, but this does not definitely prove Obama is behind every or even most of the wide protests against him in the U.S.
Wide protests aginst President Trump have also taken place in the UK, and those protests have nothing to do with Obama or his groups. Many of the protests taking palce arise from strong feelings against Trump’s policies, particularly the one he intially made banning Muslims from seven countries that have so far nevr produced any terrorists that have caused terrorist atatcks anywhere.
A few weeks ago, President Trump told Fox News that reports of his calls with the leaders of Mexico and Australia were caused by leaks from “Obama people.”
President Trump so far has the lowest rating of all his predecessors, but he said he would give himself an “A” in achievement but in messaging a “C or C plus.”
“In terms of messaging, I would give myself a C or a C plus,” Trump said. “In terms of achievement I think I’d give myself an A. Because I’ve done great things, but I don’t think we’ve explained it well enough to the American people.”
Exactly what the president thinks he has achieved in this short time is unclear. He has so far done alot of what he said he was going to do, which is good for his integrity. However, alot of it doesn’t make much sense. Banning Muslims from seven countries where no terrorist attacks have taken place looks like an attack against Muslims, something he denies he is doing. Also, he fails to justify why he would charge Mexico for a wall he wants to build. And, just how does he explain his plans to get rid of LGBT rights?
EXPLAINING
The U.S president indeed has alot of explaining to do to the American people, but explaining irrational policies will be a tough task even for the cleverest in his administration. Trump performed miracles to win the 2016 elections, but with so much unrest and objections to his policies, it is no wonder the U.S intelligence have been so adamant that the elections were hacked by Russian cyber experts.
Fairness demands that it be pointed out that no evidence of hacking from Russia has been presented, but it may be bcause there are complications surrounding whatever evidence is available, including swearings to secrecy, or even solid deductions made by those intelligence organisations that have made the hacking claims.
If Trump really won the elections outright, it would mean that the Wikileaks revelations buried Hilary Clinton and handed it to Trump by default, rendering the allegations of hackings unfair against the President. However, never before have appointments so controversial been made in the White House, or a sitting President of the United States presented policies that even intelligent observers among his allies cannot understand. If Trump could defy all odds in becoming nominee and subsequently, President, he should work the same magic in appealing to the reasoning of the American public.