White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/

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  1. Gonna be a long several years of “Lawless Authoritarian Continues To Be Lawless Authoritarian” headlines.

    I’d say “we can’t normalize this” but it feels like that ship sailed many years ago.

  2. biden team still delusional bending over backwards to uphold polite norms and traditions until the very end.

    they have no idea what world they live in now.

  5. Cheeto doesn’t do what Cheeto doesn’t want to do. We already know this. We also know that no one has the balls to call him on it. Our slouching into fascism continues apace.

  7. They have no reason to sign them.

    This country – and clearly its media, judging from these headlines – is deep in denial. We didn’t elect the questionable, deeply problematic outsider of Trump 2016.

    We elected a convicted felon who repeatedly promised to dismantle the rule of law to protect himself from prison. We’ve given him control of all three branches of government as he plots to remove or imprison the generals who might defy him when he unleashes the military domestically against ‘illegals’ and, quite likely, his foes.

    This is a man running a knife through our country’s guts, at our own request, and the media is clutching pearls about norms. If there’s a story here, it’s that Trump no longer has a reason to follow *any* law or norm – and fucking transition paperwork is near the least of our worries.

  9. C’mon folks, if he can’t even do this? Really? A certain segment of america really are the bootlicker class.

  10. I really hope whoever the next dem nominee for president isn’t going to fall back on this old school style of doing things. Trump and Maga threw that out the window long ago and dems still haven’t caught up

  11. If I was Trump I wouldn’t sign them either. I already know I’m above the law, I already know I’m never going to face any consequences, I already know this country won’t do jack shit if I don’t sign it, so why would I?

    What are they going to do, arrest him? Yea right.

  12. Really gotta stop calling things “mandatory” without a mechanism for enforcement

  13. All I wish is that our “norms” had teeth.

    Don’t want to sign transition docs? Ok, you don’t get to start your transition until you do. No visits to the White House, no classified briefings. No nothing. Sign the documents.

    Don’t want your nominees to submit to FBI Background checks? Ok, then you don’t get to nominate those people.

  14. Lol. Guys, you don’t get it. They don’t care. They won’t sign anything they don’t feel like and trump will still become president.

  15. And whats the ramification for this?

    And if there are any ramifications, will they actually be applied?

    And if applied, will they be done in a bipartisan manner?

    Or are we still working under a double standard.

    Edit: *imagine if Obama refused to sign them.*

  16. Spoiler: he won’t, and nothing will be done, because nothing fucking matters in this country

    seriously? “Biden won’t leave until Trump signs documents” “oh noo, that’ll make MAGA do civil war!” “ok then, he doesn’t need to sign them”

    rinse, repeat, “damn how did America fall to fascism?”

    With its dick in between its legs, that’s how

  18. Does it matter?? Garland won’t do shit and Biden is to nice to tell him to fuck off.

  19. Why does he get intelligence briefing, invites to White House , improved secret service etc. if he hasn’t signed the papers? IMHO getting him signed would be the easiest issue to handle. Zero access to anything and no certification in January before the documents are signed. Let’s SCOTUS deal with that if he should allow the access without signing.

  20. They won’t. They already know they can get away with breaking laws, so why would they sign?

  21. There’s nothing more fitting for this White House than spending their final days in power complaining that the incoming fascists haven’t properly completed their paperwork.

  22. yeah i highly doubt they will, heck if i was a betting man i’d bet Trump doesn’t even take the oath of office, what are they gonna do not make him president? MAGA will throw an absolute bitch fit if he’s not in the WH by the end of Jan 20th

  23. The word transition concerns them and they think they will lose their private parts.

  24. If the press starts framing this in shame… it’d go a long way. Don’t say “Trump hasn’t signed transitions docs” say “Trump is continuing with illegitimate government “

  26. Well, when there are no consequences, he will continue to do whatever tf he wants… it would be nice if someone had some balls and would actually hold him accountable for something.

  27. I don’t understand how anyone writing or reading these headlines is actually even mildly surprised. Unfathomable that an awful person surrounded by sycophants, ghouls, and opportunists does exactly what you’d expect and that he said he would.

  28. And they won’t. The Trump admin doesn’t care about continuity of government. They intend to break everything starting Jan 20. Also, they don’t want their hands tied for how the donated transition and inauguration money is spent. Because it’s all a grift. 

  29. No sign, no transition, it’s that simple. Trump is also in direct violation of the 14th amendment of the constitution and everyone will fail their oath of office if he is sworn in which sadly that leaves us with JD Vance.

  30. I thought when Obama won, we were on to a brighter future…I was okay with being wrong, but Jesus Christ…not THIS wrong.

  31. The white house should be busy substituting top secret documents for misinformation.

  32. Honestly why is anyone surprised by this? Middle and most America if they hear this will be like : WHO CARES? Democrats are raising a stink bout nothing!

    Laws and norms require an amount of good faith that is not there in this incoming morally bankrupt administration.

  35. Then until he does, transition should be halted.

  37. Stop expecting them to follow rules or norms. They’re coming to burn it all down and claim the ashes for themselves.

    That transition paperwork won’t matter when they start their purge and replace.

    You’re asking looters to sign the guestbook.

  38. Someone alert me when the electoral college does the one fucking thing it was created to do.

  39. “FBI also remains unable to conduct any background checks on the president-elect’s prospective cabinet, raising alarm over the possibility that senators may be rushed into voting on his nominations without the appropriate due diligence having been carried out.”

    Yea.. that makes sense

  40. And they never will sign them. They aren’t there to serve America, they are there to stuff their pockets and abuse their powers to target anyone they don’t like.

  41. He’s pressure testing the law, what is gonna happen come inauguration day? Nothing. He’s going to transition. Laws only matter if there are consequences to not following them and trump has long ago proven there are no consequences when he doesn’t.

  42. They don’t have to sign the document. He’s going to be president. He knows that he’s not gonna sign ethics agreement. He knows he’s not gonna be ethical. Lack of signing it does not mean that he won’t be president and he knows that.

  43. Biden should unilaterally begin FBI vetting. this is all to keep the FBI from doing security checks because Trump will be the president January 20th regardless of paperwork then its up to trump whether to authorize the background checks which we know he will waive

  44. “In the absence of signed MOUs from Trump’s transition team, the current government cannot begin the process of providing briefings or security clearances for incoming officials.

    Crucially, the FBI also remains unable to conduct any background checks on the president-elect’s prospective cabinet, raising alarm over the possibility that senators may be rushed into voting on his nominations without the appropriate due diligence having been carried out.”

    This is the reason trump hasn’t signed.

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