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Presidential Transitions Are Not Too Long

Yes, lame-duck presidents can create trouble—but incoming administrations can’t be assembled overnight.

Jim Swift
Jan 18, 2021
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Presidential Transitions Are Not Too Long

SHAY KHATIRI: Yes, lame-duck presidents can create trouble—but incoming administrations can’t be assembled overnight.

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David Priess: Should We Brief Trump?

On today’s Bulwark podcast, David Priess joins Charlie Sykes to discuss why President Trump should be denied intelligence briefings as a former President, Ben Sasse and the Trumpian rear-view mirror, and the reported coming wave of pardons and clemency.


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TIM MILLER: Even now, they're still covering for Trump.


From The Bulwark Aggregator…

  • Capitol Rioter May Have Stolen Pelosi’s Laptop and Tried to Sell It to Russia, Says FBI – Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast

  • Republicans Will Try to Pretend Like Trump Never Happened – McKay Coppins, The Atlantic

  • Trump’s Worst, Most Bizarre Statements About ‘the Cyber’ – Andy Greenberg, Wired

  • An Abject Apology Highlights the Legal Exposure for Promoters of Trump’s Election Fraud Fantasies – Jacob Sullum, Reason Magazine

  • How Trump’s fights with tech transformed Republicans’ beliefs on free speech – Josh Hendel, Politico

  • Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies. But It Insisted on One Unusual Condition. – Ben Smith, The New York Times

  • Biden to tap Rohit Chopra to lead CFPB, Gensler for SEC chair: reports – Marina Pitofsky, The Hill


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PHILIP ROTNER: Open and shut.

Words Make Worlds

ALAN CROSS: Movements based on lies usually end in violence.

House Republicans Look Pathetic Compared to Navalny

BENJAMIN PARKER: Days after all but ten GOP representatives showed their spinelessness by opposing impeachment, Russia’s opposition leader braves Putin’s wrath to return home.

Trump’s History of Inciting Violence

BARRY RUBIN: The president now says that he abhors mob violence. That's not what he's been saying for the last four years.

After White House Meeting with Trump, Mike Lindell Calls for Military Coup on Facebook

TIM MILLER “That’s where my hope lies.’

Technology That Delivered

DAVID SHAYWITZ: Signs of hope in Joe Biden’s choice of science advisor—and in the unleashed ingenuity that made it possible to rapidly produce vaccines.


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The Terminal, but in real life…

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We’ll see you tomorrow! Questions? Comments? You know how to reach me. If not, drop me a line at: swift@thebulwark.com.

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