Sen. Warren Accuses Trump, Transition Team of Breaking Law
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., accused President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team of "already breaking the law" in light of a weekend report that the Republican has yet to sign ethics pledges that are part of the transition agreements with the Biden administration.
CNN reported Saturday that the ethics agreement, which is required by law under the Presidential Transition Act, an updated version of which was signed into law by Trump in 2020, has yet to be signed. Trump and every member of his transition team is required to sign it, according to the report.
"Donald Trump and his transition team are already breaking the law. I would know because I wrote the law," Warren said in a post to X on Monday. "Incoming presidents are required to prevent conflicts of interest and sign an ethics agreement. This is what illegal corruption looks like."
Trump and his team haven't yet received --- and won't — transition briefings until the agreements are signed, according to CNN, which added that the holdup is over the mandatory agreement on ethics issues. CNN reported that details between Trump's transition team and the Biden administration were still getting worked out.
A Trump adviser told CNN that Trump plans to sign the ethics pledge, saying the team is more focused on assembling Trump's Cabinet and building out his administration. Further, the adviser dismissed two deadlines that passed --- Sept. 1 and Oct. 1 — without getting signed as "not at all a concern."
However, left-leaning organizations and one Democrat lawmaker sounded the alarm on the missed deadlines and briefings as a potential threat to national security.
In an Oct. 23 letter to Trump and now Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, accused them of refusing to "commit to a smooth transition" by missing the deadline on the Memorandum of Understanding [MOU] with the General Services Administration.
"Without these MOUs in place, federal agencies are unlikely to be able to securely and effectively communicate with your staff, which will endanger 'the orderly transfer of the executive power' and threaten our national security. I strongly urge you to expeditiously sign both MOUs and submit your ethics plan," Raskin wrote.
Its a trap in some way obviously and they are mad he is not taking the bait.
It's an unconstitutional law anyway. Congress has no place in restricting the rights of the Executive Branch.
I agree. Even so, it says that Trump himself signed the bill to make it law, and if that's true he should follow it. But Warren is probably misrepresenting it anyway.
Says the TREASONOUS CUNT who has publicly stated on record that they will not certify a Trump win and will have Civil War conditions.
It's way past time to start executions for Treason and Ratskin should be first.
Maybe the Biden Administration and democrats should first focus on getting oaths of office signed for the Biden team that’s been in place for 4 years. If I am not mistaken, that is required “by law” as well...
Pocahontas speaks, orange hair needs to listen. LOL!
" I would know because I wrote the law." says Warren. Yeah, and you also wrote you were American Indian on your law school application.
I’m confused, why are you signing a transfer of power agreement before the election?
Did the independent candidate also have to sign these?
He's paying for his own transition. No lobbyist filled teams to assist with the transition. They are all leakers and liars.
Trump's not using gao and federal funds set up by this law. The gao route ensures deep state input. No thank you. There is nothing in the constitution about lawful transition personnel.
It irritates these marxist-democrats as they do anything & everything for money.
No opportunity for the enemy to seed the process, or blame Trump for 'leaks'.
Sounds like the transition is going smoothly to me.
Chief Warren and the Ratz -- quite an opposition.
We don't care, "Jamie".
Only one "ethics pledge" that matters.
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Bidens agreement is not a law. The agreement no longer stands since they tried to kill him.
Her laws, not America’s law. I have no idea, just sounded good to say.
hahahaha, well, Pocahontas, are you signalling there is legal corruption? You should know ....
Someone needs to tell her to go smoke a peace pipe
Says the unethical woman that lied about being a Native American for a position and the foolish man that was part of a marxist lawfare show trial to persecute innocent people.
They don’t need to sign anything! IT’S NOT YOUR FN CORPORATION GOVERNMENT ANY MORE, BUTTHEADS!
It is the revival of our Constitutional Republic, and they will tell you what you need to know & when.