Trump blames . . . Obama for protests and leaks

[billvon 3,131]

Now that his presidency is going down in flames, Trump is doing what any Washington insider would do - looking for someone else to blame.
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‘He is behind it’: Trump blames Obama for protests, leaks

Published: Feb 28, 2017 8:46 a.m. ET
Mike Murphy, Editor
Slate

President Donald Trump blamed former President Barack Obama for the wave of protests around the country, and suggested he might also be responsible for the leaks coming from within the White House in an interview with Fox News on Monday.

A clip from the interview aired Monday night on “Tucker Carlson Tonight”; the full interview will air Tuesday morning on “Fox and Friends.”

In it, Trump is asked if he thinks Obama is orchestrating the protests and noisy crowds attending town-hall meetings around the country since Trump took office. “I think he is behind it. I also think it’s politics,” Trump said. “You never know what’s exactly happening behind the scenes, you never know.”

“I think President Obama is behind it because his people are certainly behind it,” Trump said. “And some of the leaks possibly come from that group.”
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[Lawndarter 3]

It's amazing how quickly it's going down in flames. I can't make popcorn fast enough to keep up.

[Phil1111 1,193]

trump is doing nothing more than testing the elasticity of ignorance of his political base. Its difficult to know if this is bannon's idea or trump's.

"In his critique of my book, Jeffrey Friedman continues his longstanding efforts to show that most political ignorance is inadvertent rather than rational. In his view, voters are ignorant because they believe our society “is a mighty simple place” and “think they have information adequate to [the] task.” They simply don’t realize there is lots of other information out there that could help them make better decisions....

This key distinction also explains why many people choose to vote, but do not choose to learn very much about the issues they are voting on. Voting usually requires very little time and effort, while studying more than minimal amounts of political information requires a lot. People with a modest sense of “civic duty” are willing to spend modest amounts of time and effort on activities that have only a small chance of making a difference. But, given the odds, they are unlikely to make big sacrifices or to set high informational standards...

Widespread political ignorance is a menace regardless of whether it is rational or inadvertent. But the difference between the two explanations for it matters. Inadvertent ignorance is a much easier problem to address than rational ignorance.

With rational ignorance and rational irrationality, by contrast, such simple solutions are far less likely to work. Rationally ignorant people choose not to acquire new knowledge because the incentive to do so is weak, not because they are blissfully unaware of the possibility that additional knowledge could improve the quality of their voting decisions....

Further reading:
https://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/10/22/ilya-somin/why-most-political-ignorance-rational-why-it-matters-reply-jeffrey-friedman

No offense intended. I'm just quoting from the article/book.

[kallend 2,175]

By Abby Phillip and Ashley Parker March 1 at 9:07 PM

He blamed “the generals” for a raid that led to the death of a Navy SEAL in Yemen. He accused former president Barack Obama of fomenting protests against him and leaks within his administration. He blamed the judiciary for future terrorist attacks against the United States, and the media for the firing of his first national security adviser. He even blamed the weather for his smaller-than-desired inauguration crowd.

The one person President Trump never seems to blame is himself.

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