Video (above): Gateway Pundit (Orig. in Newsmax TV) | December 18, 2020
BREAKING BIG: Here We Go — Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings — Biden Team Unaware of Directive – ROCK & ROLL!! [VIDEO] (Updated)
“Good!” tweeted Trump 2020 senior campaign advisor Steve Cortes, referring to the Axios article, “Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Briefings.”
“Joe Biden could not get even a low-level security clearance right now,” Cortez continued. “He’s compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Good! Joe Biden could not get even a low-level security clearance right now. He’s compromised by the Chinese Communist Party.
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) December 18, 2020
Axios: Acting Pentagon chief halts Biden transition briefings. https://t.co/Kni463LRpt
Recently, President Trump tapped Chris Miller as Acting Secretary of Defense to replace the fired Pentagon chief Marc Esper, who resisted and publicly contradicted the administration’s policies. Miller had served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center at the time. Now the wisdom behind that decision might be coming to light . . .
EDITOR’S UPDATE: Richard Grenell, former Acting Director of National Intelligence, has called the following Axios piece clickbait, stating “The current Pentagon team has given more transition meetings than were given in 2016.”
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Acting Pentagon chief halts Biden transition briefings.
Mike Allen, Jonathan Swan | Axios | December 18, 2020
Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.
Behind the scenes: A top Biden official was unaware of the directive. Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller’s action, or whether President Trump approved.
Why it matters: Miller’s move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration.
What happened: Meetings between President Trump’s team and the Biden team are going on throughout the government, after a delayed start as the administration dragged its feet on officially recognizing Biden as president-elect.
- Then on Thursday night, Miller — who was appointed Nov. 9, when Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper right after the election — ordered officials throughout the building to cancel scheduled transition meetings.
Pentagon official response: A senior Defense Department official sought to downplay the move, calling it “a simple delay of the last few scheduled meetings until after the new year.”
- “We had fewer than two dozen remaining meetings on the schedule today and next week,” the official said, adding that “the DoD staff working the meetings were overwhelmed by the number of meetings.”
- “These same senior leaders needed to do their day jobs and were being consumed by transition activities. … With the holidays we are taking a knee for two weeks. We are still committed to a productive transition.”
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This isn’t true. The current Pentagon team has given more transition meetings than were given in 2016.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 18, 2020
These anonymous sources have political agendas and it’s definitely not about sharing facts.
This is click bait reporting. https://t.co/ghmZNM1YxE
