The overwhelming idiocy of the Reichwing

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Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:32 AM

Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings
https://www.axios.com/pentagon-biden-transition-briefings-123a9658-4af
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Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.

The latest: Biden transition director Yohannes Abraham contradicted the Pentagon's official response to this story on Friday afternoon, telling reporters, "Let me be clear: there was no mutually agreed upon holiday break."

"In fact, we think it’s important that briefings and other engagements continue during this period as there’s no time to spare, and that’s particularly true in the aftermath of ascertainment delay," Abraham continued, referring to the Trump administration's delay in recognizing Biden as president-elect.

Miller had said in a statement following the publication of this story: "At no time has the Department cancelled or declined any interview. ... After the mutually-agreed upon holiday, which begins tomorrow, we will continue with the transition and rescheduled meetings from today."

Behind the scenes: Trump administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller's action, or whether President Trump approved.

Why it matters: Miller's move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration.

Fury at the Biden team among senior Pentagon officials escalated after the Washington Post published a story on Wednesday night revealing how much money would be saved if Biden halted construction of Trump's border wall.

Trump officials blame the leak on the Biden transition team (Though, it should be noted, they have no evidence of this, and both reporters on the byline cover the Trump administration and have historically been prolific beneficiaries of leaks.)

What happened: Meetings between President Trump's team and the Biden team are going on throughout the government, after a delayed start as the administration dragged its feet on officially recognizing Biden as president-elect.

Then on Thursday night, Miller — who was appointed Nov. 9, when Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper right after the election — ordered officials throughout the building to cancel scheduled transition meetings.
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Sounds like they got some shit to cover up.

Hmmm, right after one of the worst cyberattacks in our history that nobody is talking about, Trump’s hatred of losing, his love of Putin, his firing the top Pentagon official last month, William Barr quitting - nah, surely Trump and Putin aren’t planning something big that they need to hide from Biden.

Flynn saying that trump should declare Martial Law, let the Military take over and have another election.

Suddenly a Military coup doesn't seem that far off. It'll make for an interesting mini-series in 10 years if the country survives.

You think these guys are going to just give up and let the DOJ come after them for conspiring with Russia to commit terrorism against America?

The GOP has no choice but to attempt civil war or a load of the GOP will be in Leavenworth.

REAVERFAN

Saturday, December 19, 2020 6:36 AM

Trump Won’t Denounce Russia’s Hack Because He’s Still Subservient to Putin
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-russian-hack-solar-winds
-cyber-putin.html

In early September, after Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned, Western leaders like Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel issued sharp condemnations and demanded explanations from Russia’s government. President Trump told reporters he hadn’t yet made up his mind who was responsible. “So, I don’t know exactly what happened. I think that it is tragic. It is terrible. It should not happen. We have not had any proof yet, but we will take a look.”

Two and a half weeks later, having given him more than enough time to digest all the intelligence, a reporter asked him again. “Ahh, we’ll talk about that at another time,” Trump demurred. The other time has not come. Three months later, that remains Trump’s last word on the matter.

In the wake of news of Russia’s massive cyber-intrusion into a swath of private and public networks, including, alarmingly, agencies controlling the nuclear stockpile, the main lacuna of the story, as it has been for four years, is the president’s subservient relationship with Russia.

Trump, though, has said nothing. He has mentioned Russia a few times since news broke of its massive operation, but only in the context of complaining about “the Russia hoax.”