Trump is running his transition team on secret money
Trump is running his transition team on secret money
Breaking with past practice, President-elect Donald J. Trump has not agreed to disclose the donors paying for his planning effort or to limit their contributions.
Summary
Donald Trump’s transition team is raising unlimited funds from undisclosed donors, including foreign nationals, bypassing federal transparency rules by refusing to sign agreements with the Biden administration.
This breaks from tradition, sparking concerns about potential conflicts of interest and influence over the incoming administration.
The team has also failed to enable FBI background checks for appointees and has not submitted an ethics plan required for pre-inauguration access to federal agencies.
Critics warn that this secrecy undermines accountability during the critical handover of power.
I think the big takeaway is that the only thing atanding between our government and corruption is "tradition."
194Way too much of how our institutions function was built on the honor system. And now it’s too late to harden those safeguards
81(Insert Morpheus pic)
What if I told you...The only thing linking government and corruption is tradition
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Oh look, the NYT is suddenly reporting an actual issue with Trump Co. instead of casually sanewashing him. Too late. We will spend decades fixing this sh*t. Literal decades.
96Fixing? Haha. We lost.
10They've been shit for most of their existence. Although in the early 1900s they were very good at reporting about if people were wearing hats or not.
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But he won't be that bad, am I right? That's what I keep being told now that the "a vote for Kamala his a vote for genocide" people got their way.
By the way, I wonder what dialect of Russian those foreign nationals speak...
57Hassan Abdel Salam, a former professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and co-founder of the Abandon Harris campaign, which endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, said Trump's staffing plans were not surprising, but had proven even more extreme that he had feared.
"It's like he's going on Zionist overdrive," he said. "We were always extremely skeptical ... Obviously we're still waiting to see where the administration will go, but it does look like our community has been played."
28What a bunch of fucking dipshits
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It's gettin' scary in here.
24This is nothing. They're literally planning concentration camps right now.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-land-commissioner-open-offering-trump-land-mass/story?id=116108825
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Notice how those ML accounts are no longer active?
22To be fair, there's a big issue with .ml right now.
https://lemmy.world/post/22196027
I have seen some of them using lemm.ee and stuff though.
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A good chunk of them also likely speak Arabic. The Saudis love Trump.
7The dems complete incompetence led to this. Tired of seeing people think being vocal about genocide is somehow a bad thing.
If you keep blaming anyone but the idiots that sat on their hands and decided a status quo with a side of genocide was the appropriate response to fascism, all your doing is signaling them they can try the same shit next time.
They praised fracking at the debate ffs, it's like they were trying to alienate voters. I blame them and no one else.
-8This is one of the nasty cases of "multiple parties fucked up to let this happen, and all of them are to blame". The fascists themselves obviously bear the most blame, followed by their enablers, including various media outlets that went terribly softball on one side while picking apart the other at every opportunity. The Dems' continuous lurch to the right and resulting voter disillusionment also counts among those, the lack of education, the Reps' skill at pinning all the issues they cause on the Dems...
The list is long. It also includes the voters who, faced with the question "genocide with or without fascism?" threw up their hands in frustration and said "Do whatever you want, go install the fascist for all I care" as well as the relentless "bOtH SiDeS" bullshit.
The Dems fucked up, badly and consistently. They deserve to lose their political standing, to be usurped by an actually progressive left wing party. But achieving that through a fash victory is like weeding your garden with incendiary bombs: Sure, it might burn away the visible part of the weeds, but it'll probably kill the crop too and still leave an invisible part ready to become a nuisance in the future.
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oh, did i miss the memo that we would be swapping the meanings of the words "secret" and "russian?"
29'member "Drain the Swamp"?
28He did drain the swamp. A swamp is a diverse, important ecosystem which he bulldozed and replaced with a shitty hotel.
15That was ever only to drain the swamp into his own pockets.
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This breaks from tradition
What a great way to minimize what's going on here
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Mr. Trump is ... provoking alarm among ethics experts.
Like, yes, we know. That's what he does. I don't think this is news to anyone.
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USA is going to be run by FSB. I wonder how many american assets are being recommended to disapear right now.
21Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! The f'n MAGATs want transparency in the government...LOL! They're filling the their swamp with Russian SVR RF assets and white Christian lunatics hell bent on creating the US version of 1979 Iran. Fuck that shit. I would welcome the Canadians to annex all the Blue States.
12I would welcome the Canadians to annex all the Blue States.
The answer to voting in a fascist is to cede the majority of the nation's territory to them? Those poor fools who weren't fortunate enough to live in a blue state...
Reminds me of what Abraham Lincoln said to the Confederacy: "If you're too stupid not to realize slavery is bad, make your own country. Surely your slaves will realize that blue states are better."
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I thought Trump was against being trans?
11Only for other people, all the other presidents have to be APAB (assigned president at birth) but he's allowed to be president even though he's ADAB (assigned dumbass at birth). It's just his usual hypocrisy
10Still, good for her. I guess that team is for emotional support to help with the cognitive dissonance.
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You know, there was this TV show some time back, sliders, I think. One episode has everyone wearing truth collars that shock you when you lie. Fuck tradition, make our leaders wear truth collars that shock the fuck out of them when they lie.
7They'll just become smart like the Fae in a lot of fantasy literature, they can't lie but they can tell you half truths and let you fill in thr blanks yourself to mislead you to an improper conclusion.
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Secret Diels you mean
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