TRAVEL BAN: TRUMP WAS SET UP

I think the temporary travel ban was the victim of a skillfully engineered plan set up by the Democrats, George Soros and the left-wing radicals.  Here's my line of thinking:

1. Trump had promised Americans he would temporarily halt people coming to the U.S. from some Middle Eastern Muslim countries.  Working off a list of  problem countries supplied by the Obama administration, Trump selected seven countries for the initial ban.  The ban was to be temporary, to allow U.S. authorities time to determine what exactly the risk of terrorist infiltration was from each country and what the best approaches would be to mitigate the threat, (extreme vetting, etc.).  

2. Trump's White House staff wrote the Executive Order.  I'm presuming some of those involved were holdovers from the Obama White House who either negligently or deliberately mis-worded the order to make it susceptible to embarrassing court interference.  

3.  Once the order was released, the Democrats jumped on it like wounded banshees and stirred up the media.  Protesters responded almost immediately at airports around the country, as if pre-organized and ready to go.  

4.  Trump's E.O. was presented to Federal District Judge James Robart from Washington State.  I believe the Judge had been pre-selected and was part of the scheme.  Why else would they choose a Judge from Washington State when the E.O. was issued in the District of Columbia?  The Judge not only agreed to hear the case, but also issued a stay order to prevent the ban from continuing in effect. 

5.  Using a Department of Justice lawyer and before Jess Sessions was confirmed as Attorney General, Trump's people appealed the ruling to a three-Judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; the appeal had to go there because the ruling came from a Judge of a District Court situated within the boundaries of the 9th Judicial District.  The argument presented by the Justice Department attorney, August Flentje, was at best weak.  He didn't hammer the wording of the U.S. Code or the Constitution which give the President the power to control immigration.  This made it easy for the Court to uphold Robart's rulings.  

In short, I think the Trump administration was caught flat-footed on this one and never saw it coming. 

I think that if I were Trump, I'd withdraw the E.O. and write a new one that is explicit and which cites the U.S. Code, and let it take its due course, if any.  That could be done by Monday. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.