>"there was no peaceful transfer of power. you spied on my campaign and you got caught."

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Republicans on the Senate Finance and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unveiled a report Friday documenting abuses by the FBI and the General Service Administration (GSA) undermine President Donald Trump's transition team.

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>reeee trump won't sign the MOUs

>trump won't allow FBI vettings

https://www.scribd.com/document/481339015/GOP-Senate-Report-On-FBI-GSA-Abuse-Against-Trump-Transition-Team

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>>22053468

>FUCK THEIR AGREEMENTS

>FIRE THEM ALL

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this

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>Republicans on the Senate Finance and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unveiled a report Friday documenting abuses by the FBI and the General Service Administration (GSA) undermine President Donald Trump's transition team.

this appears to be the full report without the annoying scribd advert

>https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020-10-23%20Committee%20Report%20-%20GSA%20&%20Trump%20Transition.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The United States is renowned for its peaceful transitions of power. Since at least the

early 1960s, presidential candidates have received government assistance in forming and

administering their transition teams. Government assistance to transition teams is crucial to

“promot[ing] the orderly transfer of the executive power in connection with the expiration of the

term of office of a President and the inauguration of a new President.”1 In providing this

support, Congress soberly assessed that “[t]he national interest requires that such transitions in

the office of the President be accomplished so as to assure continuity in the faithful execution of

the laws and in the conduct of any affairs of the Federal Government, both domestic and

foreign,” and that “[a]ny disruption occasioned by the transfer of executive power could produce

results detrimental to the safety and well-being of the United States and its people.”2 Every

major presidential candidate over the past five decades—both winners and losers in the general

election—has made use of government assistance to support his or her transition team under the

assumption that government employees were cooperating with the team in good faith.

That presumption of good faith was called into question in 2016. This majority staff

report tells an important, yet overlooked, story about how the Federal Bureau of Investigation

(FBI) and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Office (Special Counsel) secretly sought and

received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team, Trump

for America, Inc.They did so despite the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the

Trump transition team and the General Services Administration (GSA)—the executive agency

responsible for providing services to both candidates’ transition teams—that those records were

the transition team’s private property that would not be retained at the conclusion of the

transition.3 At the time of the events highlighted by this report, Denise Turner Roth, an Obama

appointee, was Administrator of GSA until Timothy Horne’s appointment as acting

Administrator on January 20, 2017. Mr. Horne served until Emily Murphy was sworn in as GSA

Administrator on December 12, 2017.4

Even after the Trump transition team learned about the FBI’s secret preservation request,

the GSA nevertheless refused to provide the Trump transition team copies of its own records.5

Instead, after denying the Trump transition team its basic legal rights to control its own

information, including the opportunity to protect privileged or confidential information, the GSA

turned those same records over to the Special Counsel without requiring any legal process, such

as a subpoena or warrant

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>>22053759

>>"there was no peaceful transfer of power. you spied on my campaign and you got caught."

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>(FBI) and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Office (Special Counsel) secretly sought and

>received access to the private records of Donald J. Trump’s presidential transition team, Trump

>for America, Inc.They did so despite the terms of a memorandum of understanding between the

>Trump transition team and the General Services Administration (GSA)

VI.CONCLUSION

The GSA’s memorandum of understanding with the Trump transition team assured that,

among other promises, it would not retain transition records. Moreover, throughout the

transition and the ensuing investigations, the GSA unequivocally acknowledged the Trump

transition team’s legal ownership over its own transition records. But the GSA did not honor this

promise or protect the legal rights of the Trump transition team.

Instead, on February 15, 2017, after GSA officials saw news reports about the resignation

of then-national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the GSA proactively contacted the FBI

about preserving all remaining Trump transition team records.After conferring with the FBI, the

GSA immediately began to preserve those records. Notably, around that same time, GSA

officials also decided that they would not inform either the White House or the Trump transition

team about the decision to preserve records contrary to the express terms of the memorandum of

understanding. Regardless of the propriety of preserving all remaining transition records

because of concerns regarding one former transition official, the decision not to inform the

Trump transition team—the lawful owner of those records—deprived that team of the

opportunity to make timely and meaningful decisions about how to protect its interests in those

records.

Around the same time, the GSA ignored the Trump transition team’s requests for copies

of its own records. In mid-May 2017, the Trump transition team requested copies of its own

records but, for reasons that were never explained, the GSA did not provide copies for five

weeks. In early June 2017, the Trump transition team finally learned that the GSA had preserved

its records, but it would not receive notice of the production of those records to the FBI until late

1. Finally, in August 2017, the Special Counsel’s Office requested and received access to the

transition records for 13 transition officials, four of whom were then-current officials in the

Trump administration, including then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Jared Kushner. The GSA

did not inform the Trump transition team about the production of its records to the FBI. For

months, neither the GSA nor the FBI were forthcoming with the Trump transition team.

This conduct undermines the GSA’s role as a neutral provider of services to presidential

transition teams. These actions provide a basis for future transition teams to question or even

doubt the services offered by the GSA, which risks the effectiveness of the transfer of power

from one administration to the next. Although Congress has enacted one piece of legislation to

address these issues, legislative fixes will never be perfect. The purpose of this report is

transparency. Shining a light on how the process was corrupted against the Trump transition

team is likely to expose other areas of weakness that may need correction. It also should serve as

a stark warning so that it will never happen again.

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>>22053804

>Reps on the Senate Finance and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unveiled a report Friday documenting abuses by the FBI and the GSA undermine 47's transition team

TYB

to clarify, that report was on 2016 transition and why Potus is telling them to pound sand and stick their MOUs up their ass

>>22053826

>ty fam - gotta fly

o7