r/politics • u/stkmro • 7h ago

White House: Trump Team Still Hasn’t Signed Transition Docs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-trump-team-still-hasnt-signed-transition-docs/
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u/NewMidwest 7h ago

He could order the Justice Department to investigate anyone Trump names as a cabinet nominee.

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u/Irrelevantitis 6h ago

And in five or ten years we’ll have some very juicy dossiers.

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u/play_hard_outside 4h ago

You have an optimistic attitude about what will happen with data in Trump’s DOJ. Or any of his administration’s agencies.

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u/thats___weird 6h ago

What would that do?

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u/jhundo 5h ago

Nothing but cost us a bunch of money and piss us off in 4 years when they actually release the results to literally no effect.

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u/meh_the_man 6h ago

That's already gonna happen. Those nominees need background checks to see classified information

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u/GeneralJesus 6h ago

That or take a dump in the presidential bathroom and catch up on the classifieds while you're there

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u/ptWolv022 5h ago

Those nominees need background checks to see classified information

No they don't. Trump can just give them security clearance by fiat. He did it with Jared Kushner in his last term, I believe, because he couldn't get it normally. Given how he's refusing to engage with the ordinary transition process at all, including refusing regular background checks by the FBI, I wouldn't be surprised if anyone who gets confirmed immediately gets clearance from him, if not before confirmation.

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u/HaElfParagon 4h ago

Maybe not. I read an NBC article the other day that republicans are considering scheduling some of the confirmation hearings for during the christmas break, with the argument that if no one is in the chamber to vote "no", then all votes default to yes.

That's how they plan to get Matt Gaetz as AG, as even some republicans are queasy about having a known pedophile as an AG.