Trump Still Refusing To Sign Transition Ethics Pledges

Axios reports:

With 67 days until President-elect Trump is sworn in, his administration-in-waiting is still bypassing the official process designed to facilitate the transfer of control over the vast federal bureaucracy.

For now, future Trump administration officials won’t have access to the agencies they’ll soon lead, to secure communications systems, or potentially to security briefings and clearances.

Trump’s team has so far declined to sign agreements which would force them to disclose donors and pledge to avoid conflicts of interest. The transition process is designed such that the winner quickly gets access to office space, federal funding, and government personnel and systems.

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This is a good time to remember that while Donald Trump is diabolically effective at manipulating the media to run campaigns, he is absolutely TERRIBLE at actually running the government or handling DC politics.

Campaign was the easy part. It’s all downhill for him from here.

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) November 14, 2024