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I'm starting to think the plan is never to sign. For those unaware all this does is get him and his team access to various briefings to bring them up to speed on where things are currently at. Y'know, minimize the chaos inherent in changing governments.

But Trump loves chaos. He loves to feel like he's moving fast and breaking things. And most importantly, he loves having enemies.

What will actually happen here is that Biden will just give up and give Trump the briefings anyway (which he will ignore, or fail to turn to for). But if the Dems do dig their heels in, Trump will announce that they're trying to block him from taking office. It'll the be the start of what is almost certainly a four year project (and, to be clear, this is going to happen either way); blaming every screw up on "Democrat insiders" working to undermine them from within the government. This insidious enemy will be everywhere and anywhere, constantly working to disrupt all their beautifully laid plans.

They should have made it a law to be required to sign it. There are a lot of norms that should have been made into law but Congress sat on their thumbs on that for the last four years.

He doesn't have to. It's not a legal obligation, it's a "norm." Elizabeth Warren is incorrect. She may have helped write it, but she seems to not understand it. I imagine that's why her accusation is so vague. It violates no laws to refuse to sign, and that's the legal interpretation before factoring in the new presidential immunity decision. He is vested with the full power of the executive when he is sworn in whether he signs the transfer agreements or not.

They won't even try prosecuting him for his alleged treasonous behavior at this point. The idea they're going to try to make a legal case out of a paperwork violation is pure fantasy for, like, six different reasons.

Guess we got to cancel the transition then.

You know that if it was an incoming democrat president taking over for a republican president, they'd be pulling the "oops you missed the deadline to turn in your paperwork, looks like we gotta give it to the runner-up" routine.

Then don't transition power. Tell them they get nothing until they sign it. It was Trump's law in the first place.

Lmao, these dudes won't even have the passwords to get into the computer system because of this. Shit. I'd hide the keys on them and upper decker all the toilets.

Didn’t he do this on round one as well?

I mean, technically, I don't think he signed the documents to transfer power TO Biden in the first place, did he?

Yeah, how else are they going to get people not fit to hold these positions in.

seems like trump is just screwing his own incoming here. its going to be as he does it.

Don't interrupt an enemy when he's making a mistake