Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said Monday that President elect-Trump "and his transition team are already breaking" a law on presidential transition.
S.394 - Presidential Transition Enhancement Act of 2019
www.congress.gov
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Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] (Introduced 02/07/2019)
08/01/2019 Senate Passed Senate with amendments by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5318-5320; text: CR S5319-5320)
02/05/2020 House On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H825-826)
03/03/2020 Signed by President [Trump].
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@#7 ... wow, that's a reach. only been 9 days since the election ...
Is it really a reach?
Parts of the law require action before Election Day.
Trump campaign's failure to enter into transition agreements (October 23, 2024)
thehill.com
... The Presidential Transition Act directs major party candidates to enter into memorandums of understanding (MOU) with the sitting president and General Services Administration (GSA) so staff can receive relevant resources " including executive branch employees, facilities, documents and national security information -- during the months between the election and the inauguration. The agreements also include an ethics plan.[emphasis mine]
According to Raskin, Trump's campaign has not yet signed an MOU with the GSA, which was due on Sept. 1, or with President Biden, the incumbent president, which was due on Oct. 1.
The Harris campaign has entered into both agreements, according to Raskin. ...
A sampling from Pres-elect Trump's first term...
Ethics Be Damned (2018)
www.apmreports.org
... More than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct.
A growing chorus of ethics officials, including the acting director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, warns that President Trump's conduct related to his business interests is causing a dangerously negative public perception of the nation's ethics system.
"These are perilous times," said David Apol, acting director of the Office of Government Ethics. His comments came in a rare interview earlier this month that happened to be the same day President Trump nominated someone to replace him.
Roberts in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2017. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images
Apol worries that the president's decision to not divest from his sprawling business holdings and the scandals involving Trump's Cabinet are causing public distrust in the federal government.
"When the head of your organization, the head of your government says these rules aren't important enough for me to comply with, that makes the program challenging. And that changes the relationship, the way people view the ethics program," he said. ...
An APM Reports review of news coverage, ethics agreements and government financial disclosure forms has found that more than half of Trump's 20-person Cabinet has engaged in questionable or unethical conduct. ...
See the article for the list.
It seems that Trump's going to use his next administration to rescue Putin's butt from the quagmire of Putin's stupid aggression vs Ukraine. (Doubt that? See this; www.youtube.com)
Why would Trump save Putin vs Ukraine? Trump's not a brilliant American patriot. He's a calculating transaction-focused gamer. He thinks alliances are great as long as he sees the clear-short term benefit (primarily to him). For Saudi Arabia, it's because the Prince invested $2 billion in Jared's LBO firm. For Russia, its because Putin's bank has lent Trump Inc. hundreds of millions that is still on the books. And because Trump hates Zelensky because Zelensky did not throw Biden's son under the bus and because Trump got impeached as a result of a "perfect" conversation with Zelensky.
So, here's another question. Why is Trump choosing not just unprepared cabinet leaders, but leaders who will be toxic to the government agencies and who as a whole will wreck those agencies and America's National Security Council?
Putin's been spending $ and FSB efforts to destabilize democracies & NATO. Putin's regime has helped "populist" autocratic movements thrive in Hungary & Slovakia and increasingly contributes to help increasingly stronger autocratic-leaning "populist" movements in Germany, France, and Netherlands. (And America?) Why? Go figure
The US Senate's GOP members need to dig deeper into why would their consenting to the creation of an Executive Branch Cabinet (and especially the next National Security Council) nearly fully created to help America's enemy Putin and to create chaos across America's institutions and our alliances with liberal democracies in NATO and around the world be in America's best interest? Is it in America's best interest, or would those senators rather sell out what moral courage they have and the nation just to avoid Trump's ire?
Where is the national interest in the Cabinet & National Security Council that Trump is building? His ingredients are a suicidal recipe for our national security and for Anerica's Constitution.
If Congress gives its consent to Trump's Cabinet picks "recipe", it will create chaos throughout our national intelligence and national defense establishments.
Just ask any former SECDEF or FBI or counter intel agency leader about their feelings about Trump's proposed Cabinet's intent. They'll agree, the creation as a whole will be more destructive than the sum of its parts. Beware.
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