Five things that happened in Trump’s White House
While the president lobs another grenade at the media, corporate resistance to his travel ban is mounting
Washington — President Donald Trump returned to Washington on Monday from a weekend trip to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida — stopping off at a US military base where he made the provocative, and unexplained, claim that the media was deliberately disregarding jihadist attacks. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, in California, the US government filed court documents formally defending Trump’s controversial travel ban. Here are five takeaways from Monday’s events: • After a weekend of back-and-forth as to the measure’s legality, the US government formally defended Trump’s travel ban Monday as a "lawful exercise" of his authority. On Friday, a federal judge ordered the temporary nationwide suspension of the president’s executive order that summarily denied entry to all refugees, and travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. In a brief filed to an appeals court in San Francisco, Justice Department lawyers argued that "the executive order is a lawful e...
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