Posted on 11/19/2024 1:39:52 PM PST by ransomnote
A thousand miles from the austere buildings where Washington runs, Donald Trump’s transition team in his Mar-a-Lago resort has begun what a close ally calls a hostile takeover of the federal government.
Since his victory, Trump has ignored many of the rules and practices intended to guide a seamless transfer of power and handover of the oversight of 2.2 million federal employees. Instead, the president-elect, who has pledged to fire thousands of civil servants and slash billions of dollars in spending, has so far almost fully cut out the government agencies his predecessors have relied on to take charge of the federal government.
Trump has yet to collaborate with the General Services Administration, which is tasked with the complex work of handing over control of hundreds of agencies, because he has not turned in required pledges to follow ethics rules. His transition teams have yet to set foot inside a single federal office.
In calls with foreign heads of state, Trump has cut out the State Department, its secure lines and its official interpreters.
As his team considers hundreds of potential appointees for key jobs, he’s so far declined to let the Federal Bureau of Investigation check for potential red flags and security threats to guard against espionage — instead relying on private campaign lawyers for some appointees and doing no vetting at all for others.
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At the root of this unprecedented approach, say those close to Trump’s transition, is an abiding distrust and resentment of federal agencies that the president-elect blames for blocking his agenda in his first term, leaking his plans to the press, and later sharing his documents with investigators and bringing criminal charges against him.
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He’s learned his lesson about the deep state.
Written from the typical viewpoint of the DC insider: “hey, we run this place. You work for us!!”
“...so far almost fully cut out the government agencies his predecessors have relied on to take charge of the federal government.”
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This message has been brought to you directly from the deep state saboteurs who want to obstruct and betray the incomming president by proxy of the Washington Post, their mouth piece.
The people who want to harm Trump’s transition are pissed off that he is going around them.
LOL
“rules and practices” are not laws. And they are not in the constitution. And these particular ones were designed to keep the deep state in power.
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Thank God.
Good he learned. Someone needs to tell the 3 writers that they spied on his campaign and leaked and shared his documents.
Another nameless ally?
Trust Nobody
Following the rules gets you spied on.
Music to my ears. I love the petulant screams of the Left....
The “Deep State” is nothing less than the $3+ trillion unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t.
Maybe Trump is beginning to realize that. I know Vivek knows this.
Why do they keep trying to reassure us that we made the right decision for 2024?
The Rice/Jarrett administration is history.
I laughed when I saw that on TV, started to say ‘who the heck does this guy think he is”, then said “oh, crap”.
This is wonderful news and proves that Trump is serious about cutting off the Deep State’s nuts. Bravo!
You mean the same agency that packed up his Oval Office things and then told the National Archives about it?
-PJ
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