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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Secret Diels you mean

[–] [email protected] 27 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

'member "Drain the Swamp"?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 17 hours ago

He did drain the swamp. A swamp is a diverse, important ecosystem which he bulldozed and replaced with a shitty hotel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

That was ever only to drain the swamp into his own pockets.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This breaks from tradition

What a great way to minimize what's going on here

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago

Also

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

They'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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whiskey 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I 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."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

USA is going to be run by FSB. I wonder how many american assets are being recommended to disapear right now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought Trump was against being trans?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Still, good for her. I guess that team is for emotional support to help with the cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Only 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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

oh, did i miss the memo that we would be swapping the meanings of the words "secret" and "russian?"

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

They'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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

NYT realized how much credibility they lost between the election and gaza reporting and are trying to pretend none of it happened.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just like they did when they wrote glowingly about that German fellow with the funny moustache. The NYT REALLY loved him at first.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To be fair, newspapers in Germany owned by the same Jews that would later be persecuted supported or sucked up to Hitler too... It's actually strikingly similar to how our own media has acted around Trump. Direct parallels with what just happened to morning Joe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Fixing? Haha. We lost.