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Democrats are bracing for the possibility that if President Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, he and his aides will bungle a smooth handover of power – and maybe even try to outright sabotage the transition.
At least one outside group that works with the 2020 Democratic campaigns has quietly launched a transition-related effort designed to offer an early look at the landscape that awaits them if they oust Trump.
Separately, a prominent good government organization, the Partnership for Public Service, is openly appealing to Trump and his Democratic opponents to start thinking early about transition planning, even if it comes across as “presumptuous.”
And one leading Democratic presidential candidate, Elizabeth Warren, just days ago unveiled a plan that, among other things, describes how she would move quickly to staff the government if she wins the White House.
In the plan, Warren voices the fears of many Democrats. “This will be no ordinary transition between administrations,” she states. “Unlike previous transitions, we will not be able to assume good faith cooperation on the part of the outgoing administration.”
That Democrats are making transition-related moves more than nine months before Election Day underscores not only their distrust of Trump but also the reality that taking over the U.S. government is a mammoth task with high stakes.
Any government is especially vulnerable during a transition of power, and Democrats who deal with national security are among those most concerned about a Trump-to-Democrat handover.
Why is it that in the last 30 years of Presidential transitions we constantly get stories/rumors that the out going administration is trying to sabotage the incoming administration.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: BomSquad
Why is it that in the last 30 years of Presidential transitions we constantly get stories/rumors that the out going administration is trying to sabotage the incoming administration.
I can't recall any time where this happened. Examples please.
“I probably wouldn’t have … gotten away with it.”
What was shocking was not that Comey violated protocols or policies again but the reaction of the audience to his admission. In describing how he set up a critical meeting with Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump, the audience was audibly thrilled by his cleverness in keeping Flynn unrepresented by legal counsel and unaware of the true nature of the meeting.
“I sent them. Something we’ve, I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration. In the George W. Bush administration … or the Obama administration, two men that all of us, perhaps, have increased appreciation for over the last two years. In both of those administrations there was process.”
originally posted by: toolgal462
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: BomSquad
Why is it that in the last 30 years of Presidential transitions we constantly get stories/rumors that the out going administration is trying to sabotage the incoming administration.
I can't recall any time where this happened. Examples please.
/facepalm/
DOHHHHHHH
originally posted by: shooterbrody
originally posted by: toolgal462
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: BomSquad
Why is it that in the last 30 years of Presidential transitions we constantly get stories/rumors that the out going administration is trying to sabotage the incoming administration.
I can't recall any time where this happened. Examples please.
/facepalm/
DOHHHHHHH
it is a magnesium deficiency
it happens in older people
is today the red jello or the green???
originally posted by: toolgal462
originally posted by: shooterbrody
originally posted by: toolgal462
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: BomSquad
Why is it that in the last 30 years of Presidential transitions we constantly get stories/rumors that the out going administration is trying to sabotage the incoming administration.
I can't recall any time where this happened. Examples please.
/facepalm/
DOHHHHHHH
it is a magnesium deficiency
it happens in older people
is today the red jello or the green???
I think it's a gray matter deficiency.
originally posted by: ignorant_ape
as an impartil outside observer - i finds it highly amusing that the democrats have delusions of wining the US 2020 POTUS election
they are - a bunch of muppets - who currently - are unfit to run a bath - and thats my polite response
the plan, Warren voices the fears of many Democrats. “This will be no ordinary transition between administrations,” she states. “Unlike previous transitions, we will not be able to assume good faith cooperation on the part of the outgoing administration.”