State Dept. denies President-elect Joe Biden stack of messages from foreign leaders

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Kylie Atwood @kylieatwood · 21m
New: A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump admin is preventing him from accessing them, sources say. Traditionally State supports all communications for the President-elect. https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/state-department-biden-messages/index.html

Washington (CNN)__A stack of messages from foreign leaders to President-elect Joe Biden are sitting at the State Department but the Trump administration is preventing him from accessing them, according to State Department officials familiar with the messages.

Traditionally, the State Department supports all communications for the President-elect, which is why many countries began sending messages to State over the weekend. But with Biden prohibited from accessing State Department resources by the Trump administration, because President Donald Trump refuses to accept Biden's victory, dozens of incoming messages have not been received.

This is a stark contrast with the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. At the time, President-elect Trump opted not to use State Department resources. Instead, he made his calls out of Trump Tower and resisted using the government support and coordination system, which meant that translators and staff sat waiting without any work while Trump made calls on his own, a State Department official told CNN at the time.

At any other point since Biden left the White House, he would have been able to call into the State Department operations center to place a call to a foreign leader, State Department officials told CNN. Former presidents and vice presidents are allowed to use the resource whenever they wish. But now, as he is President-elect, Biden is being prevented from using that facility by the Trump administration.

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[Bev54]

1. How fucking petty can you get?

[blogslut]

2. Pompeo is a thing I can't say on DU

[2naSalit]

4. +1

[crickets]

3. The petty denial phase is not just insulting. It's becoming a national security issue.

How far will they follow trump over the cliff before it's obvious to everyone, even trumpers, that the country means nothing to the Republican party except a means to power and wealth?

[smirkymonkey]

5. WTF?

This petty shit has to stop. This is beyond ridiculous.

Why can't people stop kow-towing to this petty little tyrant-toddler who is going to be out on his fat orange ass in two months? Do they really think that their loyalty is going to get them anywhere? He is going to go down so hard and so fast it will make their heads spin.

He will never rise again and neither will any of his mutant spawn. These people are all too stupid to live.

[Yavin4]

6. Is this what parenting is like?

OMG.