While Donald Trump has not promised a peaceful transition of power to President-elect Joe Biden, the outgoing president’s National Security Council is preparing for “a very professional transition,” Robert O’Brien said in comments aired Monday, according to NBC News. O’Brien, a Trump loyalist, admitted that it looks like Biden won the presidential election. Someone should tell the current occupant of the White House that since he tweeted twice in the last twelve hours that he “won the election.”
“If there is a new administration, they deserve some time to come in and implement their policies. We may have policy disagreements but look if the Biden-Harris ticket is determined to be the winner — and obviously, things look that way now — we’ll have a very professional transition from the National Security Council. There’s no question about it, O’Brien said last week in remarks that streamed on the web Monday morning as part of a global security forum sponsored by the Soufan Center, according to the news outlet.
O’Brien continued to say that Biden’s team is “going to have very professional folks who are coming in to take these positions, many of whom have been here before and spent a lot of time in the White House in prior administrations. And the great thing in the United States of America, we’ve passed the baton and had peaceful, successful transitions even in the most contentious periods.”
“I’m old enough to remember Bush v. Gore, and the transition there didn’t start until mid-December, and yet it got done,” O’Brien said. “And if we’re in a situation where we’re not going into a Trump second term, which I think people where I’m sitting in the White House would like to see, if it’s another outcome, it will be a professional transition; there’s no question about it.”
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Trump seems determined to do as much damage as possible to the fabric of our democracy on his way out. Trump’s malignant narcissism prevents him from accepting that he lost the election, even if that hurts the United States. The president is a mentally unstable individual that will burn everything down to the ground rather than admitting he was defeated.
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