By Sarah Westwood, Washington Examiner:
President Trump has encountered more highs and lows in the first six weeks of his presidency than most new administrations experience during their first six months, and the Obama administration’s 11th-hour activism could explain some of Trump’s early setbacks.
The White House’s largely untested team has shouldered much of the blame for what critics have described as a chaotic rollout of the Trump agenda. Those critics have pointed fingers at infighting between West Wing staff and inconsistent messages from Trump himself as reasons why the administration has found itself mired in controversy in fits and starts since Inauguration Day.
But at least some of the early complications can be attributed to roadblocks erected by Trump’s predecessor in the waning days of the Obama administration. And Trump’s allies have grumbled that Obama alumni are privately peddling stories designed to damage the president to a press corps they view as incurably biased against Trump.
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