TOWNHALL PROTEST ANALYST: Bryan Crabtree, is the Publisher of Talk40.com, as well as a contributor to Townhall.com, ClashDaily.com and DailyCaller.com.
Is Obama Really Behind Anti-Trump Leaks and Town Hall Protests, As Trump Alleges?
Let’s begin by stipulating that this premise was presented to President Trump in an interview with Fox & Friends, so it doesn’t appear as though he went out of his way to pursue this line of speculation unprompted. Nevertheless, Trump says he suspects that Barack Obama and his people are behind some of the national security leaks plaguing the nascent administration, as well as the (at least partially orchestrated) Obamacare-related agitation at Republican town hall meetings. Is there any basis for either claim? Juan Williams and I tackled that question on America’s Newsroom this morning, as the nation awaits the president’s first State of the Union-style address to a joint session of Congress later this evening — via Right Sightings:
A few points: First, there are some reported breadcrumbs about Obama loyalists and holdovers working behind the scenes to undermine Trump’s team. The leaks are undeniably designed to damage Trump, so it’s not much of a stretch to conclude that some of them are originating from people who remain installed in the executive bureaucracy despite being aggressively hostile to the new boss’s politics. Then there’s this Weekly Standard column that pieces together some evidence that infamous Obama aide Ben Rhodes and his coterie are still up to their “echo chamber” machinations, feeding a largely-complicit media narratives for public consumption:
In an article on the Atlantic website, a former Obama White House staffer explains why she resigned from the Trump White House after only eight days. Rumana Ahmed thought she should “try to stay on the NSC staff during the Trump Administration” she writes, “in order to give the new president and his aides a more nuanced view of Islam, and of America’s Muslim citizens.” But then the executive order suspending visa issuance for Syrian refugees and suspending it temporarily for nationals of seven Muslim majority countries forced her hand. She quit…Hers was the second story in less than a week in which a government official explained that they’d resigned because of Trump’s policies. Ned Price, a CIA analyst who worked at the Obama White House, authored a cri de coeur for the Washington Post to explain why his disagreements with Trump’s policies prompted him to leave government service. “To be clear,” wrote Price, “my decision had nothing to do with politics.” What a strange coincidence that Price and Ahmed worked for the same person in the Obama White House, national security adviser for strategic communications, Ben Rhodes. In fact, they worked in the same room, outside of Rhodes’ office, as the 2016 New York Times Magazine profile of Rhodes showed: “In the front office, [Rhodes’] assistant, Rumana Ahmed, and his deputy, Ned Price, are squeezed behind desks, which face a large television screen, from which CNN blares nonstop.” Among their other duties, Price and Ahmed helped manage Rhodes’ “echo chamber” to
market Obama’s policies.
READ: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/02/28/debate-is-obama-behind-the-leaks-and-town-hall-protests-as-trump-alleges-n2291901
READ: http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/02/28/trump-obama-behind-protests-possibly-leaks/
BIO: Bryan Crabtree is the live afternoon host on Atlanta’s Biz 1190 from 4-6 pm weekdays and airing again on AM 920 The Answer from 9-11 pm. His real estate show with his wife, Mackenzie Crabtree can be heard on Saturday at 9 am on AM 920 The Answer and Noon on Sunday on Biz 1190. Additionally, his Crabtree Chronicle (focusing on local Atlanta issues) is heard throughout the day on AM 920 The Answer.
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