This isn’t true. The current Pentagon team has given more transition meetings than were given in 2016.
These anonymous sources have political agendas and it’s definitely not about sharing facts.
This is click bait reporting. https://t.co/ghmZNM1YxE— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 18, 2020
173 posted on 12/18/2020, 10:30:18 AM by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
“This isn’t true. The current Pentagon team has given more transition meetings than were given in 2016.”
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Grenell isn’t really denying that the briefings have stopped, but he is down playing it. It does appear that they have stopped till after the first of the year (at least).
DOD downplayed it, saying they had too many meetings scheduled, that they were having trouble keeping up. So you just cancel them?
On the one hand, it’s a very public slap in the face of Biden, on the other hand they are down playing it.
It insinuates that Biden’s team is a national security threat. You could have reduced the number of meetings, been careful what you shared with him, but to cancel them publicly? That is to send a message.
Axios says that it’s because Biden’s team leaked info about how much money stopping border wall would save. So DOD is trying to teach him a lesson? I don’t think that’s it.
This is a really big deal. Right after our gov and critical infrastructure is revealed to have been hacked for months in an ongoing attack, we just call off these briefings because there are too many of them and we will catch you after the first?
It’s more like the DOD washing their hands of Biden, like, “We aren’t even going to lie to the SOB anymore, keep them out of here,” then putting on a semi polite face about it publicly.
From the Axios article linked by Jonathan Swan, and Axios was started by Polito jackalmaggots, fwiw. And POTUS is meeting with Acting Sec of Defense Miller today.
Miller had said in a statement following the publication of this story: “At no time has the Department cancelled or declined any interview. ... After the mutually-agreed upon holiday, which begins tomorrow, we will continue with the transition and rescheduled meetings from today.”
Behind the scenes: Trump administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller’s action, or whether President Trump approved.