Trump's News-Conference Performance
The president railed against intelligence leaks and lambasted the media.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Feb 16, 2017
3 minutes
President Trump used a news conference ostensibly meant to announce his new choice to head the U.S. Department of Labor to rail against intelligence leaks that have connected his aides to Russia, explain why he fired Mike Flynn as his national-security adviser, and defend the rollout of his executive order on immigration.
Trump also used the occasion to launch a broadside on the media, bemoan the state of the country and the world he inherited (“I inherited a mess at
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