The President Trump transition team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start the process of transferring control of the federal government. The landing teams from each of the cabinets will now begin to engage with their exiting counterparts.
There were many articles written about the delays in signing the agreements. However, President Trump waited until he has his cabinet fully assembled before signing the first part that permits the landing teams to engage. The second part with government provided offices and technology is NOT being accepted.
President Trump’s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, announced the Trump transition team has refused to sign an MOU with the Government Services Administration (GSA), and will not be using cell phones, computers, offices or “any technology” provided by the GSA. This is a smart move to avoid the Deep State surveillance situation that was faced in the first term.
In the first Trump administration, the GSA had wiretaps, office bugs, and gave all the electronic communication information from the Trump transition to the FBI, IC and later Robert Mueller. In essence, the GSA spied on the Trump team, then gave all the data to the operatives who were in place to target them. The Trump team is not making this mistake again.
The Trump transition team is also not going to use the office space provided by the GSA and will instead have their own offices and security systems in place to coordinate the transition to power.
WASHINGTON DC – […] The Trump team’s unprecedented delay in signing these agreements, weeks after being declared the winner of the election, had alarmed former officials and ethics experts who warned it could lead to conflicts of interest and leave the new government unprepared to govern on Day One.
In the Tuesday announcement, Wiles suggested the Trump transition will not sign a separate agreement with the General Services Administration, which would have allowed them to receive federal funding, cybersecurity support and government office space, pledging instead to fund the transition with private dollars, run it out of private facilities, and deploy their own “existing security and information protections” for sensitive data.
The transition, Wiles said, “will operate as a self-sufficient organization, adding that declining government funding will “save taxpayers’ hard-earned money.”
And while Wiles also pledged in the Tuesday statement to publicly disclose the private donors to the transition and “not accept foreign donations,” there will be no legal mechanism to enforce those promises of transparency.
The lack of federal cybersecurity support could also make the Trump transition a softer target for foreign hackers — who already successfully penetrated the campaign earlier this year.
“That’s something that in 2020 was maybe the single most important worry of the [Biden] transition team — that they would be hacked, and all of this information, including intelligence information, personal information about job applicants, would be threatened,” said Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at CUNY’s John Jay College who wrote a book about Biden’s transition. “It’s imperative that the Trump Transition Team has installed the proper procedures to protect itself.”
White House spokesperson Saloni Sharma said the Biden administration is concerned about the ramifications of their successors forgoing GSA support, but remains “committed to an orderly transition.”
“While we do not agree with the Trump transition team’s decision to forgo signing the GSA MOU, we will follow the purpose of the Presidential Transition Act which clearly states that ‘any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and wellbeing of the United States and its people,’” she said.
In the White House memo, Sharma added, the Trump transition “agreed to important safeguards to protect non-public information and prevent conflicts of interest, including who has access to the information and how the information is shared,” and also agreed to publicly share the ethics agreements it is imposing on its own employees. (read more)
Hee, hee…not this time, baby!
Trump learned his lesson well.
Who’d believe his opposition would stoop so low to spy on him and feed him bad intelligence information too?
There is a new sheriff in town!! And this one ain’t playin’.
Trump Vance 2025 Transition Team Ethics Plan
https://www.gsa.gov/system/files/2024%20Ethics%20Pledge%20Trump.pdf
I expect the MOU will eventually appear here:
https://www.gsa.gov/governmentwide-initiatives/presidential-transition-2024/memoranda-reports-and-key-documents
ANATOMY OF A HIT PIECE
Lets’s boil down Alice Miranda Ollstein’s completely objective and utterly unbiased Politico article on the Trump Transition Team into a single sentence:
The Trump transition team’s unprecedented delay in accepting help from corrupt federal agencies has alarmed officials and ethics experts and could lead to conflicts of interest and also could leave Trump unprepared to govern and there will be no legal mechanisms to enforce promises by Trump’s transition team to disclose private donors and by not accepting corrupt government support Trump’s transition team could be a softer target for hackers and the Biden administration is real worried about the Trump transition team not using the same corrupt GSA support that spied on them the last time!
Yes. Another beech who needs three names to appear relevant. Your bold font exposes all the lies that the Left use to
trigger their braindead audiences.
This is gonna be one humdinger of an inauguration or maybe we could rename it “Castration Day”, the day President Trump
neutered the Left.
I thank God for every day I get to see history being made.
Now if only the State Dept. and Foreign Council would self-immolate….that would be the closest thing to heaven on earth.
Castration day has a much better ring to it than inauguration day.
This inauguration presents Soros with opportunity. PDJT should be sworn in, then go right back to the white house and get down to the business of castration.
We can party on day 100, by walking over the discarded testicles, including the Soros’, Antifa, Occupy, and BLM ones littered on the streets.
I briefly had concerns they would try to pull something, on J6, 2024 like refusing to certify.
My concern is lessened somehow, from seeing stories like this.
The ace in Trumps hand has always been the Brunson Petition. The ideal time for SCOTUS to rule is evening J5. Then make lots of popcorn.
Once inaugurated, I think Trump should head back to Mar Largo. have your fanfare away from Washington.
We don’t need a DC rally.
The Deep State & leftists will try to screw this up for Trump in any way possible.
Expect a lot of smashed windows & broken ATMs.
Nice imagery. Inauguration day is castration day. The cutting of another set of nuts off the body politic. Love it!
Yep, Alice three-names is also titteringly proud of her attendance at a Kamala pronoun fest, (I identify as she and her), where all the ladies planned their resistance to the banning of an post-coital abortion prevention pill heretofore paid for by the feds!
<< FOOM! >>
[polite clap clap clap]
IMESHO, it is good that the Biden administration has relatively little credibility in such matters, and Politicon has even less credibility. The Uniparty, the Swamp, and the maroons in the media must really hate being beaten at their own game, and will have to scramble to generate the next version of Lawfare.
So far, almost every piece of news about the new President Trump administration has been encouraging and providing hope about MAGA. Thanks to Sudance for keeping the public updated about the positive changes!
Yeh, thanks to Sundance and there’s a lot to be positive about! There’s a lot of talk about the Dem’s lawfare crowd of the usual suspects being depressed and exhausted…and all by a 78 year old!
Ding, ding ding, you win first prize!!
Thanks, but I’m holding out for the Pulitzer. Maybe Paul Krugman can sell me his. I hear he won’t be needing it!
Yes, “unprecedented” in the sense of not having been done, previously, by the two -TWO – presidents to whom it effectively applied, one of whom was Trump himself. A third president to whom it technically applied was Obama, but his transition was from his own first term to his second, so, effectively, a moot issue.
Live and learn…that’s exactly what Trump 47 has done!
Yep. Real worried we won’t be able to sabotage him this time. Drat
Isn’t the Deep State just going to hate that.
(Fool me once, etc etc…)
Bring it on folks! Trump 2.0 team knows how to squash down the deep state. The “gloves are off”.
A really pleasant surprise! I suspect the bad guys only have “5 ways to Sunday” to get him now. Anxiously awaiting to see the DeepState get completely skunked on the game they thought they ruled.
The aroma of skunk is in the air!
There was also something in the GSA agreement that said they would stay in place for “60 days after inauguration.”
I wonder if that has been eliminated as well?
A Military operation (or any successful operation for that matter) communicates on its own terms.
astute
When is the last time we have had a successful military operation ?
I always liked this one…..
http://bergensia.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/22947642-7847795-image-m-52_1578051726032.jpg
Frankly, when was the last time the deep state won any of its initiatives? This whole long war, the only sucesses they scored, was with the scamdemic, and the 2020 Steal, and one might argue those were pyric victories, as both cost them more than they gained.
Yep. Aren’t pyric victories incredible?!
I should added NO!
With Patton?
You CAN teach an old dog new tricks….
Smart.
I wonder what critical US Government information the sore-loser Democrat Swampies are going to destroy, corrupt, make unfindable, mis-file, or otherwise tamper with?
We already know these Dem operatives will jeopardize US national security for their political benefit. They have been doing that all along.
We already know they will sabotage the incoming administration. They do that every incoming GOP administration. They spied on Trump 45. They destroyed computer keyboards and cables before GW Bush. What will they do this time?
Show up with all your own hardware set to your own security specs, dispose of the outgoing admins hardware since it’ll be full of spyware, then bill the new hardware to the government-at a fraction of the listed fee for the “preferred” vendor.
you read of the tree sabotage/ atrocity committed for the last “seasonal event “ in Big White ? In NC a tree farm was devastated by Helene , one magnificent lone big pine remained ..It had a name too “ Treemendous” .It was chopped for the interlopers last festivus .So much for green & growing things hopeful recovery to the tent people still suffering..
Why isn’t that being publicized? Is that being censored somehow?
That will also offend liberals greatly. It is the red pill of red pills.
You can read about it here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/11/jill-biden-receives-2024-white-house-christmas-tree/
But, I’m sure no MSM are reporting it.
If anyone had any concerns about whether President Trump learned from mistakes on the first go round, this ought to put all your fears to rest.
President Donald J Trump is going to hit the ground running on January 20th and God help the deep state that tries to put up roadblocks.
Well, a lot of my fears, but certainly not all of them. Just sayin’.
Susie Wiles enforcing light, sound, and comms discipline. I like it. A bit harder for the IC to cover their spying tracks and pretend it was Iran. Or Russia. Or the ChiComs….
Did transition teams always have to sign this MOU? Is this new-ish?
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Obama invention.
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as mentioned by john this was implemented by obama before he took office in 2013,and beings he was already president it was a moot point.BUT for future presidents it is “policy”.supposedly to streamline the transition.it is basically another means for the deep state to keep tabs on the president whomever it should be.
I bet it was Eric Holder’s idea.
“Continuity of government”?
Yes…
Espionage on the incoming government!
done by exec order as usual ??
That is very encouraging news! I hope that Trump’s administration can control the Swamp, the Uniparty, and the maroons in the media.
I love this move by the Trump team, but don’t think that the IC doesn’t have more lawlessness up their sleeves. Trump is not in office yet, they can still attempt to assassinate him with some goon, long range sniper, or some terrorist team that they will blame on Iran, Russia, or whoever. Remember, they might even start WW3 and install Marshall law to prevent Trump from getting into office. They are that evil. May God help us. In Jesus Name. Amen.
Please stop … just keep praying.
Trump will have a bullseye on his back for the rest of his life.
“Martial law”.
Brilliant!!!
“The lack of federal cybersecurity support could also make the Trump transition a softer target for foreign hackers — who already successfully penetrated the campaign earlier this year.”
Hmmmm, “foreign hackers”: aka CIA, aka FBI…..
Snort. Uh, I think Elon will ensure cybersecurity exists from nose to tail. I worked as a fed for 24 1/2 years. Sure would have loved to work from home for FOUR YEARS before I retired. That would have spared me about four hours a day commuting.
Don’t know how to write this exactly, but I think there is a Great Awakening, or a Great Rendering Realization coming to all those who work behind keyboards from home with their pajamas on. Many will have to wake up to the fact that they are not needed anymore. Stuff happens in our lives.
The District of Columbia, eg. DC has lost trillions of dollars of wage tax revenue from people working from home. Sounds like the GSA just got their wakeup call. I think its a good thing.
I can”t wait for the National Archivists to get their wake up call. 😉
Popcorn time.
Think five eyes, just like last time.
They are already surveilling trump, or at least some of his associates. Wray confirmed this in a hearing after the first assassination attempt. Also, on every phone call with foreigners, they are listening, no warrant required, thanks to Mike Johnson.
Has the transition fired Epshteyn yet?
I have no opinion, one way or another on Epstene,…
But I do know a double agent is like a bug; you don’t smash it dramatically,as they do in
movies,…
Its far better to leave them in place and feed them false info.
Did you see recently a story came out, credited to a senior Trump official, that Kari Lake would be going to work for Newsmax?
Kari AND Newsmax have categoricly denied. Sounds like a leak trap to me.
I don’t like this idea under normal circumstances. Unfortunately we are not operating under normal circumstances and therefore I temporarily agree to Matthew 7:16, “You will know them by their fruits.”
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I am enjoying the change in tone and articles at “The Federal News Network”.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/
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Not familiar. The only reason I will check it out, is because I always enjoy your posts.
Sun Tzu said:
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Trumps nightstand book
Probably on the required reading list at the New York Military Academy.
noting: now that President Trump has signed a legal MOU…with agencies also signing…this elevates any potential future surveillance or unwanted “intrusion” into his inner circle
A CRIME!
yes, the executive can direct the NEW AG to prosecute any instances of UNLAWFUL interference into his office as President.
THIS IS A REALLY REALLY BIG DEAL.
now lets see what happens. Lets see IF THEY TAKE THE BAIT AND TEMP FATE.
maybe this time we can simply manufacture evidence against them that they interfered.
how bout them apples
also noting: it is no small thing that President Trump has INCLUDED WITHIN HIS TEAM SOME OF THE MOST PROTECTED AND CYBER SMART PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. These people are not just prepared to defend against attacks, but have the resources to be offensive…and to create traps.
this is really going to be so interesting to see this
prediction: PRK, or Russia is going to hack the Trump network soon…(at least that is what they will say)…wait for it.
BE UNAFRAID
God Bless America
Sigh….thank you, Regi! Your posts are always welcome news!
MAGA 2.0 learned the lessons of MAGA 1.0
Be sure and debug (sweep the facility for bugs) in all the administration office space after Jan 20th, again!
also noting: within first hour of inauguration, President Trump SHOULD ORDER THE IMMEDIATE SEQUESTERING ORDER OF ALL CLASSIFIED MATERIAL HELD BY ALL OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT UP TO AN INCLUDING THAT PREPARED FOR, CURATED TO CONGRESS. He can then establish a much more narrow access list that essentially makes it a crime with real consequences to any individual, government official, DOJ, DNI, military and even Congress that possesses class mat without his express permission IN WRITING.
then we proceed to have a special team, elaborated on more detail to go through specific portions of this class mat to uncover and then begin the chain of prosecution.
where is Milsfud?
who killed Seth rich?
to what extent did the CIA involve itself in creating the Russia hoax?
did Nancy pelosi conspire with others (and who are they) to create a crisis in January 6th?
where did the trillions of dollars go to that were spent for the new green deal? noting: not one single kilowatt of NEW ENERGY has been produced by any of the spending? where did it go? to whom?
what was cofer black doing in the board at burisma just to prior to and overlap with hunter Biden ?
Did President Biden sign ANY executive orders to spy on President Trump?
Does the CIA/IC have more information that they are unwilling to share about the BIOWEAPONS PROGRAMS (plural) at Wuhan ? What was the purpose of that program and why did they conceal the serial passage technology to create a super virus? (while refusing to classify it publicly and even before Congress as gain of function)?
Who really paid Christopher Steele and what involvement did MI6 and the CIA have with developing the manufactured lies against President Trump.
When and how did Mike Pence get so very wealthy in the months after refusing to slow down the certification of the 2020 election?
How does a “poor” young man living just several miles from the assassination acquire a 14,000 specialized ar platform and a 3,000 dollar drone, at least 3 sophisticated remote controllers and sophisticated bomb materials..as well as staging two vehicles…not the least, how did he manage to case the shooting op and not get noticed …at all…and why the reaction when it was noticed crawled down to a conspicuous pace and why did the secret service allow the President to take the stage?
what members of Congress are on the payroll from China?
if we are going to clean house…really serious drain the swamp…we have to be prepared for war….and finish it.
because this IS A WAR. THEY STARTED IT. WE NEVER WANTED IT.
Challenges accepted
God Bless America
Good list, good starting point. I’d add, did obama order the spying on candidate Trump? The pallet of hard currency that was flown into Iran in the middle of the night durning the waining days of obama’s presidency constitute a betrayal of the USA. What was its real purpose, who got paid off.
AMEN Reg AMEN AND ROGER THAT
Praying it all comes out!! God bless America, indeed!!!
So what happens on Jan 20th? Gonna skip all gov’t offices and IT equipment?
This should also let individuals know that President Trump knows how they operate and he’s not screwing around. If you, the IC community crosses the line, his DOJ will prosecute. This is not a game, this is about the life and future of the Republic.
https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1861438872766554235
Yippee Kai Yay!
We’re throwing a reckoning!
I keep praying. Stay safe, my dear President Trump. And white hats out there — keep up the pressure, and let’s take our country back from the ChiComs and the Uniparty and anyone who is/was committing treason!
General
Surveilance
Administration
Gut
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Abolish
In other words, trying to keep the spooks out of it.
I sincerely hope all the folks being phased out by the Trump transition team, dont get the shitty feeling that they will be missed!!
The only advice I can give them is, when find yourself crying in your cornflakes, add more sugar, it makes those intolerable tears more palpable!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/26/trump-transition-team-fbi-security-clearances-background-checks
and this shows the sidestep…yes…
Good! That also means some huge budget slashes to GSA since their underhanded, treasonous, scheming services will no longer be needed by the Trump Administration. Time for DOGE to take action and put many of these miscreant leeches on the unemployment line.
“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” Trump was fooled once; Trump is no fool. You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. Restoring our Constitutional Republic will undoubtedly require removing several rotten eggs.
…and transporting them carefully enough and farfully enough that they don’t break and stink up thine own abode.
Or, alternately, find ye local outdoor stray-cat protector whose charges continually foul thy yard, and gently, underhandedly, pitch the aged ovules atop his’n/her’n A/C window units at a propitious time…
said no one ever
I don’t believe anything forces President Trump to live in and use the White House. It will obviously be bugged, so stay in Mar-a-Lago where he controls security
One of PDJT’S strengths, is not making the same mistake twice.
This requires a degree of honesty with yourself few pocess, but he DOES,which is another strength.
Nope, his second term is going to be nothing like the first.
Its going to be much, much better, with lots more winnamins, but lots of popcorn, too.
I share the same thoughts.
Hello Jared!
https://x.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1841866830756888651
“many of Trump’s nominees lack experience working in federal government or managing a big bureaucracy.”
Won’t matter because DOGE is already planning to cut every agency to the minimum to do only the work necessary to a legitimate purpose. No legitimate purpose? No urgent need by the people? Out it goes.
It was the outcry in the press that killed the Joe McCarthy movement in the 1950s. I expect a similar howl at all Trump policies and actions but the press has no respect now.
These Intel stasi have some kind of chutzpah… on Jan.6 he should begin electronic spying on them; their cosmic arrogance is their Achilles heel, and they probably wouldn’t expect it.
Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe.
IC will try to leak and say its because they didnt take support from GSA.
This is a big middle finger to the deep state. God bless President Trump!
I’m not sure why President Trump didn’t specify the most important reason for turning down the GSA “aid” in tech and office space. Put it out to the public that the GSA spied on the Trump team for the IC agencies. Punishment to follow.
Smart.
“…the GSA MOU, …also agreed to publicly share the ethics agreements it is imposing on its own employees.”
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‘That said, in the interest of national security and defending democracy, we have no problem misleading the incoming administration, reporting all to the DNC, like we did in 2016.’
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Borders on sedition, espionage, treason against another administration, and many had no problem going along with this unethical behavior.
As if it is possible to avoid 100% surveillance by using “private” communications resources in “private” facilities.
Given the above, some may see this very conspicuous Trump transition team announcement as a “modified Limited Hangout”, further evidence that they are controlled opposition rotating into position to take the place of the last puppet team.