11/25/24: Trump transition goes haywire, new AG pick might be even worse
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David Pakman
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๐๏ธ 25 November 2024
โฑ๏ธ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 0:08.2 | Hope you had a good weekend. |
| 0:10.5 | Something is very wrong with Donald Trump's transition. |
| 0:15.8 | And often the question when it comes to these failed administrations, the question ends up being, is it |
| 0:23.8 | malicious intent or merely laziness and incompetence? Or why not both? That's also a third |
| 0:31.5 | possibility. Let me tell you what's going on. First of all, before we even get into all of the |
| 0:37.2 | things that Trump's transition |
| 0:38.6 | team is not doing, Trump is refusing to disclose who is actually funding this transition |
| 0:44.7 | to begin with. Peter Wade from Rolling Stone has a report on this and points out that |
| 0:50.3 | not only is Trump the first president elect not to sign an ethics agreement, which |
| 0:55.0 | would set fundraising limits and transparency. |
| 0:57.9 | We'll talk about that in a moment. |
| 1:00.2 | We also don't have any idea who is donating money, funding the transition, and thus it makes |
| 1:09.1 | it more difficult to even know where to look for the |
| 1:11.3 | corruption, nepotism, quid pro quos, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. |
| 1:17.8 | The article details the way that this goes and what would typically be expected. |
| 1:24.3 | The Trump transition team, according to the New York Times, has privately created an ethics code and conflict of interest guidance for transition staff. |
| 1:33.6 | But there is no legal requirement, no legal requirement with regard to how any of this is ultimately going to be handled. |
| 1:43.0 | The article also points out historically, |
| 1:45.5 | presidential transitions, including Trump's own in 2016, signed an agreement to receive financial |
| 1:50.8 | assistance from GSA. That's the General Services Administration. In exchange for getting |
| 1:56.0 | some money from the GSA, they also have the ability and wherewithal to monitor how you are funding |
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