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    Laut dem Weißen Haus hat Trump immer noch keine Vereinbarungen unterzeichnet, um den Machtwechsel einzuleiten


    Laut dem Weißen Haus hat Trump immer noch keine Vereinbarungen unterzeichnet, um den Machtwechsel einzuleiten

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/11/21/trump-still-hasnt-signed-transition-agreements-white-house-says/76486359007/

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    47 Comments

    1. unhallowed1014 on

      Then take it away. If you don’t play by the rules you don’t get power

    2. somethin_inoffensive on

      And here I am worrying about meeting a deadline at my meaningless job to remain employed.

    4. tom90640 on

      If it’s a tradition, ignore it. If it’s a rule, break it. If it’s a law, write another.

    5. Delicious-Day-3614 on

      Yknow, if I wouldn’t perform the basic onboarding requirements at my job, they simply would terminate my employment.

    6. DaveChild on

      It’s weird his team isn’t signing it, it’s not like they would feel (or be) bound by any agreement.

    7. avenuedesplages on

      Hmm, better get Merrick Garland on this so he can do nothing at all about it. Why did Biden keep him?

    9. czarofangola on

      People who didn’t vote for him or Kamala chose chaos. Trump supporters love to see things burn down but blame Democrats for everything going wrong. The party of personal responsibility is big on blaming others.

    10. CranberrySchnapps on

      Is there an enforcement mechanism?

      Because if there isn’t, good luck getting Trump to do anything.

    12. BriefausdemGeist on

      He’s still constitutionally barred from serving as president too, but no one seems to be saying the obvious about that

    13. JFeth on

      The transition doesn’t really matter if he isn’t going to use anything left to him. He is going to use a storm of executive powers to do what he wants anyways. He is trying to tear the whole thing down and start from scratch. It is going to be a rough four years as he tests the limits of EPs.

    14. Friendly_King_1546 on

      He signed last time and ignored the pledge. He stopped pretending so why is it important for everyone else to continue the charade? This is weird.

    15. LordyIHopeThereIsPie on

      Guessing there’ll be zero consequences because apparently US democracy depends on expecting people to have respect for US democracy and not much else

    16. Exploding_Bacon152 on

      For what it’s worth, there’s no ‘law’ or ‘rule’ to sign this, so don’t expect any repercussions (not like it being a law would lead to any, anyways). However, this has essentially been compared to not going to any classes or doing any work for a college class, and then showing up to the final exam. The administration will be starting with no knowledge, entirely from scratch on day 1 and seeing his administration, you can tell it’ll be a colossal shit show.

    18. Dry_Dust_8644 on

      Anyone actually surprised? You’re talking about a person who turned every major WH appointment a temporary position!

      Plus, when you have that many security risks forming your administration, and your circle of friends, verifying their backgrounds will take up two of his four years to complete. FML

    19. dallasdude on

      What don’t people seem to understand?

      There will be no “transition”

      They are TAKING power. Forever.

      There is no “orderly” transition to ensure a smooth change. They are coming in to destroy all of the institutions of our government.

      Trump won’t follow ANY norms. He won’t follow the law or the constitution. He will commit whatever crimes he wants, tell his people to do whatever he wants. Expect nothing less.

    21. Jewpedinmypants on

      By not signing the transition papers it prevents the FBI from doing background checks on incoming nominees…at least that’s what I heard on Tik Tok

    23. smoothVroom21 on

      This is by design.

      He doesn’t want the Biden WH to know what their plans are, and as such put plans in place to slow or hinder them.

      If you don’t think the goal here is chaos and upheaval starting Jan 20th, you haven’t been paying attention.

      They are purposely blacking out the transition details so the shock and awe of it all it’s home day 1.

      We are roundly fuck I’m guessing.

    24. piratecheese13 on

      Watch as January comes and he’s like “crooked Joe wouldn’t let me see the fbi files, I wonder what he deleted before I was allowed to see”

      You can see them NOW Don. Just sign the fucking agreement

    25. romulus1991 on

      He’s not going to, and no one will care, and he’ll make a ton of money while openly breaking the law and he’ll die a free and wealthy man in a comfortable bed, probably with a half eaten Big Mac at his bedside, while millions suffer because of actions he takes.

      We don’t live in a just world.

    26. senorvato on

      And he won’t. He doesn’t want to be tied down with an ethics clause. Yet, tRump forces people around him sign an NDA.

    27. Hedhunta on

      Why would he? Whose going to enforce it if he doesnt? Nobody? Just like every other crime he has committed?

    28. ReVo5000 on

      Not doing so should not allow you to be sworn in, right? Isn’t that the law he passed?

    29. bsep4 on

      Just a reminder, they were required to submit the ethics plan by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act. In 2019, Congress amended the PTA to require candidates to create and publicly post an ethics plan before the election and to “include information on how eligible presidential candidates will address their own conflicts of interest during a presidential term.” which Trump himself signed into law. So the question is “why do they continue to stall?” The answer so far is (crickets).

    30. bigrock48 on

      “erm he’s not playing by the rules!” uh yeah no shit he’s a fascist who wants to be dictator. Liberalism is so ill-prepared to fight back against fascism because the whole ideology is based on people playing the game in good faith. It’s pretty evident from articles like this and the comments in here that liberals are still behind–desperately trying to scream “play by the rules!” at people who don’t give a fuck about them

    34. jonny_blitz on

      They are making a statement for what’s to come. He knows he’s never been bound by any rules in the past so why even put in the charade that he’s going to.

    35. fruitmongerking on

      In any other job, if you don’t fill out the new hire paperwork, you don’t get to start.

    36. NewHampshireAngle on

      It likely didn’t come with a check stapled to it. Trump finds this confusing.

    37. Bellegante on

      What agreements does the incoming president have to sign?

      Not clear what the holdup is, or why Trump at this point has any concerns about signing and then ignoring the document..

      Relevant article quotes:

      >WASHINGTON — Two weeks after his election victory, President-elect Donald Trump still has not signed legal documents needed to formally begin the transition of power from the Biden administration, the White House said Thursday.

      >Trump has not agreed to memorandums of understandings with the General Service Administration, which includes an ethics policy.

      >Brian Hughes, a spokesman for Trump’s transition team, told USA TODAY the president-elect’s lawyers “continue to constructively engage with the Biden-Harris Administration lawyers regarding all agreements contemplated by the Presidential Transition Act,” referring to the law governing the executive branch handoffs.

    38. FanDry5374 on

      This may be the last ethical thing he and his administration do. They have no intention of being honest and they are actually admitting it, before hand.

    39. theswedishturtle on

      I guess Biden is staying then? What happens if he doesn’t? Are we just going to pretend that laws don’t matter? Oh, wait. It’s Trump…

    40. jrf_1973 on

      He’s probably not going to. But even if he did, he will just ignore it.

      How the hell are the Democrats still surprised by this?

      The GOP and Trump do not give the tiniest shit about the rules or the rules of law. They will bulldoze through anything that stands in their way.

    41. jasonbt751 on

      If they won’t play by the rules, why should the public be held to a different standard?

      Seems like laws don’t apply to the wealthy anymore

    46. redditpest on

      I think at this point trump is just squashing all norms he possibly can, just to show everyone that he’s a big man. We voted for it. Enjoy

    47. obsertaries on

      Is there a constitutional backing to the transfer of power procedure or is it just one of those non-legal “norms” I have come to hate?

      2016 taught me just how much of the government was run on the fucking honor system.

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