In what appears to be "a strategy that radically breaks with past practice, could raise national security risks and will surely compound challenges for the Biden team"
The Trump team has prepared legally required transition memos describing policy challenges, but there are no discussions about actions they could take or pause. Instead, the White House is barreling ahead. A second official tells CNN their goal is to set so many fires that it will be hard for the Biden administration to put them all out.
President-elect Joe Biden has privately told advisers that he doesn't want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor, according to five people familiar with the discussions, despite pressure from some Democrats who want inquiries into President Donald Trump, his policies and members of his administration.
Biden has raised concerns that investigations would further divide a country he is trying to unite and risk making every day of his presidency about Trump, said the sources, who spoke on background to offer details of private conversations.
They said he has specifically told advisers that he is wary of federal tax investigations of Trump or of challenging any orders Trump may issue granting immunity to members of his staff before he leaves office. One adviser said Biden has made it clear that he "just wants to move on."
Donald Trump has no intention of allowing President Biden to "move on." Mitch McConnell, who in all likelihood will return as Senate Majority Leader, has no intention of allowing President Biden to "move on." The Republican base has no intention of allowing President Biden to "move on."
Joe Biden wants to move on because he has no stomach to allow whomever becomes Attorney General to confront private citizen Donald Trump and hold him to account for crimes he committed against the American people. In the Young Turks video below, Ana Kasparian understands that "if you care about the rule of law, if you care about protecting the democratic process," the past cannot be disappeared.
But maybe this decision will be unrelated to any concern Biden may or may not have about the rule of law or the democratic process. Following Kasparian, Cenk Uygur notes
Fifty percent of Republicans believe the Democratic Party is led by child molesters. Fifty percent. And who leads the Democratic Party now? Joe Biden does. So he's like "i want to united with the people who are calling me child molester." Why would you want to do that? That makes no sense at all."
Oh, but it does, if you're Joseph Robinette Biden. In July of 2019, Dr. Jill Biden said
California Sen. Kamala Harris implied her husband Joe Biden is racist with her attack on the former vice president during the first Democratic presidential debate.
In an exclusive interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo airing on Monday, Jill Biden called Harris' criticism of Biden over race and segregation "the biggest surprise" to her in the party's 2020 race so far -- but said voters "didn't buy it."
Her comments come as Biden and Harris battle to win over
black voters, a crucial constituency in the Democratic nominating contest.
Biden has pointed to his time as former President Barack Obama's vice president
as well as his own legacy on civil rights to defend himself, while Harris has
taken aim at elements of Biden's earlier career in the Senate.
In the late-June debate, Harris criticized Biden's comments
at a private fundraiser earlier in the month about the "civility" of
the Senate during an era in which he worked with segregationists in the
chamber. She also lambasted his early-career opposition to federally mandated
busing.
"I think that they were looking at the past. I mean,
the one thing you cannot say about Joe is that he's a racist. I mean, he got
into politics because of his commitment to civil rights. And then to be elected
with Barack Obama, and then someone is saying, you know, you're a racist?"
she said.
The candidate whom Joe Biden's wife Jill maintained had
accused her husband of being a racist was Kamala Harris, United States Senator,
State of California.
That same Kamala Harris, a little less than a year later,
was offered by his target a position on his ticket, the chance to be
vice-president, and a heartbeat from being the first female President of the
United States of America.
Mull that over. You're called a racist- according to the
person whom you most love and possibly respect- by an individual you then honor
with the most important, most desired and desirable, appointment you will ever
make.
As Uygur implies, Biden doesn't give a whit that the GOP has
promoted the idea that the Democratic Party is led by child molesters. But if Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden personally
of being a child molester, it still wouldn't persuade President Biden's
administration to consider holding Trump responsible.
Senator Biden was rolled by Judiciary Committee Republicans on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination' rolled as Vice-President, because that's practically in the job description; and rolled by Kamala Harris, who humiliated him publicly and later was rewarded by a position seen by many as President-in-Waiting.
So if the Trump Administration is laying foreign policy
traps for President Biden or setting fires which must be put out, there is no
downside for the 45th President or his party.
If Republicans want to demonize the Democratic Party as pedophiles,
socialists, or anti-Christmas, they will. They know this is Joe Biden and there
will be no penalty to be paid.
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