Donald Trump seems to be putting in MAGA loyalists on the prime of navy and intelligence companies simply days earlier than Joe Biden is sworn into workplace.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm in regards to the behind-the-scenes transfer by Trump, overtly asking what the outgoing president thinks he’ll be capable of do with these companies with lower than 48 hours till Biden is sworn in.
“What do the Trump people assume they’ll do with the navy and the intelligence companies in simply these previous couple of days?” the MSNBC host requested. “Why trouble putting in all these new ones proper on the finish earlier than Biden will get there?”
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Maddow stated:
The query is why they making an attempt to do it? On the very, very, final second, actually they’re making an attempt to swear this man in on the prime of NSA 24 hours earlier than Biden is inaugurated. And, you recognize, sure, at a floor stage that can stick Biden with the annoying job of getting to discover a strategy to fireplace that man or, you recognize, reassigning him to some essential job in Antarctica watching paint dry exterior. Or one thing else that they’ll do with that man. However take into consideration the place the impetus of that is coming from. What do the Trump people assume they’ll do with the navy and the intelligence companies in simply these previous couple of days? Why trouble putting in all these new ones proper on the finish earlier than Biden will get there? We’ll see.
Trump continues to be kicking round coup fantasies
In lower than 48 hours, Joe Biden will probably be sworn in because the nation’s forty sixth president of america. There’s nothing Donald Trump or his band of white supremacist terrorists can do to cease it.
However Trump’s eleventh hour push to put in his loyalists on the prime of navy and intelligence companies appears to recommend that coup fantasies are nonetheless being kicked round in his head.
In some model of Trump’s actuality, he both nonetheless thinks he can pull off a coup, or he believes he can affect the navy and intelligence companies as soon as he leaves workplace by putting in his loyalists now.
Both method, Donald Trump is more likely to be disillusioned as he will probably be leaving workplace at midday on Jan. 20, and any MAGA extremist he installs on the final minute is more likely to be canned by Joe Biden.
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Sean Colarossi at the moment resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts diploma in Journalism from the College of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for each of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He additionally labored with Deliberate Parenthood as an Inexpensive Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, serving to northeast Ohio residents get hold of medical insurance protection.
