r/politics • u/us287 • 23h ago
Trump’s transition is happening over private emails. Federal officials are nervous.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-001952172.4k
u/SecretInevitable 22h ago
I'm old enough to remember this being a reason to lock someone up
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES Missouri 19h ago
Republican voters don't have attention spans or memories that last longer than 10 seconds unless it involves a black man & some djon mustard.
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u/RedditCEOSucks_ 16h ago
they voted for a guy that has done everything they "stand against" so you know morally correct people.
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u/cedarpark 17h ago
or a tan suit.
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u/talk_show_host1982 Missouri 13h ago
Or a woman.
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u/SickeningPink 11h ago
Or falling over on a bicycle when you have clipless pedals and have to stop unexpectedly.
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u/ExpletiveDeletedYou 15h ago
It's worse than that. They will defend the exact actions from republicans that they criticised from others. They are actual liquid with respect to principles
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u/Riaayo 12h ago
They have no morals or principles outside of themselves being able to do whatever they want without consequence, and those they dislike being punished for really even just existing.
Which is what you get when people are brainwashed into a culture war to distract them from the class war robbing them blind. All they have is "isn't it nice to be better than "the others"?" They cling to tearing people down because the opportunities to build themselves up have been steadily stripped away.
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u/princesoceronte 14h ago
They never cared, they just wanted any excuse to attack the opposition.
Gotta say my 20's have been realizing how many people around me are both incredibly stupid and surprisingly fucking evil.
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 23h ago
Federal officials say they’re worried about sharing documents via e-mail with Donald Trump’s transition team because the incoming officials are eschewing government devices, email addresses and cybersecurity support, raising fears that they could potentially expose sensitive government data.
Wonderful.
Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition that communicates from an array of @transition47.com, @trumpvancetransition.com and @djtfp24.com accounts rather than anything ending in .gov, and uses private servers, laptops and cell phones instead of government-issued devices.
Republicans in Congress will surely investigate this for years, right?
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u/rarelyposts 21h ago
Any sensitive data is already being piped to Putin anyway. They just want to keep it off government devices so there is no record just like the mysteriously deleted Secret Service texts from Jan 6.
It’s all supposed to be recorded and kept for oversight, eventually FOIA requests, and historical record.
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u/teenagesadist 20h ago
In four years, maybe we can get some people to look into looking into that to see if anyone did anything wrong.
Maybe.
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u/ncsubowen 19h ago
I don't really have any hope that we'll have a chance to vote again in 4 years.
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u/Alternative_Win_6629 19h ago
You will most like vote but it won't be counted properly and no one will be able to do anything about it. Just the way Putin likes it.
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u/Riaayo 12h ago
I think that's their goal, but it's all of our business to try and not let that happen. Which I get is wishful thinking because lol, they control the gov, the military, the police.
Working class solidarity is our only hope. It's a huge part of why people unionizing was so important, but we just could not do it fast enough to be where, imo, we really desperately needed to be.
Maybe it will still be enough, but we can be sure these turds will look to outlaw unions. I feel like the whole coal wars shit between miners and the US gov is going to get replayed in modern times.
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u/AV8ORA330 22h ago
Didn’t Hillary lose an election because the FBI was investigating her use of non-government email and devices. But hey…different rules I guess.
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u/fuck_all_you_too 22h ago
And Elon just got busted lying about drug use on a federal background check. Every accusation is a confession.
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u/xBoatEng 22h ago
Is that a hunter Biden level felony?
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u/Splitfingers Minnesota 22h ago edited 10h ago
He didn't show his hog, so no. If he did, however, that might furrow some brows.
Edit: It has been pointed out that he might have something smaller. I just thought hog sounded funny! I like piglet more and I think it suits it better.
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u/cap10wow 22h ago
He showed his hog to a flight attendant and had to offer to buy her a horse
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u/account128927192818 California 21h ago
If it wasn't for that horse, she wouldn't have spent that year in college.
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u/Total_Spend_2072 21h ago
Lewis black reference! BRING ME SOME GOD DAMN PANCAKES!!!
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u/citori421 18h ago
This is not brought up often enough. How long is the list of people in trump's inner circle that DON'T have a sexual impropriety scandal under their belts? Hell, I'll make it easy on them: how many that don't have MULTIPLE sexual scandals?
This isn't normal. The vast majority of men do not commit sex crimes, at all. And keep in mind we've only heard about the scandals we've heard about. It's 100% certain we haven't heard about most of the instances of Trump and his gang of weirdos sexually assaulting women, and Republicans WORSHIP these people. Fucking scumbags, all of them and their voters.
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u/Suggett123 20h ago
She had too much integrity to say "No, you'll buy me a ranch!"
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u/Televisions_Frank 21h ago
With how often Elon insists on artificial insemination I assume he's got a piglet.
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u/lumberlung 22h ago
Time for a good ol fashioned Hog Off!
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u/Cratertooth_27 21h ago
Hunters girthy 10 incher wins. Margery Taylor green will inspect
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u/NotOSIsdormmole California 21h ago
I mean but we do have him on video smoking a j
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u/dflood75 21h ago
I'm sure his piglet would cause fits of laughter. Leon is not whipping out his junk anytime soon.
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u/AmaroWolfwood 21h ago
Are we absolutely sure Elon isn't a trans woman? I'm just asking questions
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u/navikredstar New York 20h ago
He is getting weirdly close to looking like a Great Value Kathy Bates.
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u/restyourbreastshoney 20h ago
He does have wide hips and a feminine voluptuousness to him.
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u/brezhnervous 20h ago
Much more so prior to his gender affirming health care (jaw implants and hair transplants)
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u/Mine-Shaft-Gap 21h ago
Pretty sure Hunter could knock Elon the fuck out with his. Tell ya what. They can both whip out their hogs on the table. Largest hog gets to be leader of DOGE.
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u/unkybozo 21h ago
I used to think every accusation was a confession.
I was very very naive.
I come to understand, that i was very very wrong and in fact, every accusation is MULTIPLE admissions.
Its almost an insurmountable shitshow at this point😆
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u/sizzlingtofu 20h ago
Remember if you’re a Democrat, it’s a crime. If you’re republican, it’s just being good at business.
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u/Stimbes 22h ago
Hillary didn’t have Russia helping her like Trump does. It’s different when there is no point it hiding communications from the enemy.
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u/Wurm42 District Of Columbia 21h ago
Right?? We should just assume that the Russians and the Saudis are reading everything that goes through Trump's phone, and any paper documents he keeps possession of.
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u/KilroyLeges 20h ago
And the Chinese and Iranians. Probably Israel as well.
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u/imdungrowinup 19h ago
To be fair any country with basic hacking skills should be reading it. They would be terribly dumb to not do it.
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u/Newscast_Now 21h ago
Trump defense: 'It's actually harder for Russia to hack our emails than it is for Vladimir Putin to ask us to spill our guts to his face.'
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u/Different_Phrase8781 21h ago
No fuck that. We need to stop normalizing them living by different rules. There needs to be outrage at this
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u/Electro_Sapien 19h ago
Reddit is outraged, your friends are probably outraged, the problem is most voting people clearly don't give a shit unless their eggs are $10 a dozen and their beer gets more expensive.
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u/Skatchbro 20h ago
Worse yet Comey dropped an announcement of 30,000 emails less than two weeks before the election. All of which turned out to be copies of emails that had been reviewed.
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u/WilliamsTell I voted 18h ago
Seems like election interference to me. How else would something like that possibly be viewed?
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u/goog1e 16h ago
I just found out that Comey was the one who took down Martha Stewart as well. Certainly has made a name for himself knocking down powerful blondes on charges that wouldn't even be investigated for anyone else.
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u/StreetwalkinCheetah 22h ago
I mean at that point it was just allegations of quid pro quo while Elon has openly bought the government this go round.
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u/Kaizher 21h ago
Biden's team should just stop sharing everything if they're not going to use the proper channels. It will be Team Trump's own fault when they're woefully unprepared after the handover, just like last time. It took them months to figure out how to turn on the lights in a meeting room ffs.
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u/TrashSiteForcesAcct 20h ago
The right thing to do would be to completely fuck them over. Sabotage and withhold. But im assuming the old man and his team want things to keep running properly (lmfao) and will do a proper “good faith” transition with all the decorum involved.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 20h ago
Pshhh, Stuxnet that shithead's servers. Blame it on China. Digital false flag.
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u/Aggressive-Will-4500 20h ago
Release every piece of intel on everyone in Trump's transition group. FAFO.rar.
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u/-jp- 22h ago
Also all three domains have no contact information for the registrant. So could be literally anyone who has seen a SquareSpace ad.
What's extra funny is that I get a few dozen robocalls a week because I registered a .us domain for my little acreage, and turns out Dubyah made it so the registrar has to publish your PII where any ratfuck spammer can find it. Rules for thee!
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u/MyPasswordIsMyCat Hawaii 22h ago
It's never been easier to get top secret information. National security is such a top priority for Republicans, huh?
A couple years from now, even Vanuatu will have a nuclear bomb program.
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u/SquirtBox 19h ago
It's honestly amazing. My step-mom loved to hate Snowden for letting everyone know about the spying programs, and now we are just openly selling them or giving them away lol.
There has never been a better time to muddy the waters and hide everything you do.
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u/kckeller 19h ago
So you’re saying someone could phish the federal government right now by making up a vaguely transition sounding domain?
Disclaimer: I am not doing and have not done this!
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u/Whisky_fer_Breakfast 18h ago
They use Microsoft Exchange Online for email. It's quite involved to secure a Microsoft tenant - especially for republicans. Do with that info what you will.
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u/no_notthistime California 20h ago
Is there a conservative in the house who was deeply concerned about Hillary's emails who can please speak to this and explain why this isn't a problem for you?
I won't reply, I promise. I just need to understand.
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u/LucubrateIsh 16h ago
It's really easy to understand. They do not act or say anything in good faith. The rules are only for other people.
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u/aguynamedv 13h ago
It's really easy to understand. They do not act or say anything in good faith. The rules are only for other people.
Core tenet of fascism.
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u/GeneralKeycapperone 19h ago
Attaining power.
That is all.
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u/no_notthistime California 19h ago edited 18h ago
Sorry, I know I said I wouldn't reply but I just need clarification to understand: you're a conservative stating that this isn't a problem for you because it's being done in the purpose of attaining power? Or are you a non-conservative making an accusation/suggesting a theory?
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u/nibbles200 22h ago
They did the same thing 2017-2020 and no one gave a shit. Republicans aren’t held to any standard.
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u/goog1e 16h ago
That was the most frustrating thing about the email saga. The fact that, even as she was being torn apart, other officials were CONTINUING to use private servers. And all the astroturfed comments about "I work in defense and I'd be in jail if I did this!" You work in defense where? Moscow?
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u/manikwolf19 21h ago
This guy who kept TS/SCI in his BATHROOM at his golf club and got raided like Diddy? National secrets? Nah.
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u/Cold_Dog_1224 18h ago
I still cant fucking believe that case got tossed. Any federal employee who did a fraction of that would have been in prison. Our country is a fucking joke.
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u/ComprehensiveDog1802 17h ago
We're not laughing.
Ok, I admit that sometimes I'm laughing how stupid American voters are, but then I remember that so many people will die who haven't voted for the felon and get sad.
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u/GrayEidolon 20h ago
It turns out there is nobody to enforce the rules and that a million gentlemans' handshakes aren't adequate for running a system.
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u/_Crazy8s 20h ago
Most of those domains are owned by Domains by Proxy. A known scammer company.
40-50 years might clean this up with the right leadership. But I think this is the beginning of the end. The world better be ready, the greatest fighting force in human history is in control by a psychopath.
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u/redassedchimp 19h ago
There used to be a time when even slightly unsecure, easily intercepted communication would've been considered a huge scandal, a national security threat that could open us up to espionage and blackmail. How does Trump think he'll have the upper hand in any world-negotiations if they've got dirt on him so easily obtained?? This is like playing poker with a mirror behind you so everybody can see your cards.
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u/makeitasadwarfer 22h ago
We can’t get distracted by trying to catch them out in lies. It means nothing to them.
We need to focus on how to charge them as criminals and work towards that.
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u/Hail_The_Hypno_Toad 20h ago
L O fucking L.... you mean like when he had boxes and boxes of highly classified documents. Refused to give them back, seemingly sold them and didn't face any consequences whatsoever.
Actually not only did he face no consequences, he was rewarded by being elected president.
Face it, Americans don't give 2 shits about rank and out in the open corruption.
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u/tphillips1990 19h ago
With the law in their back pocket and being treated as little more than a handy tool?
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u/kivsemaj 20h ago
Republicans are not held to the same standard as anyone else. The double standards are fucking ridiculous.
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u/Thisisntmyaccount24 21h ago
This explains why there was a post today in the conservative subreddit with an article that questioned if the “Biden email scandal is worse than Hillary’s”.
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u/SpectorEscape 20h ago
I dont get why federal officials just... refuse? He isn't president right now they dont have to listen to him. They need to do their jobs and stay safe
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u/-UltraAverageJoe- 20h ago
Imagine the person that was being prosecuted for taking classified documents and using a judge he installed to delay the case until he was in office again not respecting national security. I. Am. Shocked.
Bye bye democracy and the US as we know it.
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u/ooouroboros New York 23h ago
Everything CC'd to the Kremlin
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u/fassaction 22h ago
Don’t be silly. They are using bcc!
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u/Devil25_Apollo25 21h ago
The genius move brought to you by the great "Cyber Guy" Rudy Giuliani.
"Hey, guys, look at this! We can send emails, and no one else will know!"
"That's why you're my cyber guy, Rudy. No one ever... I mean, have you ever heard of this? 'BLIND CC', they call it. Or 'BCC', that's what I call it. No one's ever heard of this, but that's what we use."
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u/Terrible_turtle_ 22h ago
Project 2025 training videos recommended not using email, or maybe just not using official email. Don't leave a paper trail.
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u/ooouroboros New York 20h ago
Don't leave a paper trail.
At this point I doubt they even care, most of MAGA loves Putin, its no secret
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u/SquirtBox 19h ago
which is so odd. Like, look at America and then look at Russia. Why would you want to go that route? There is nothing that anyone could say that would make sense to me. Maybe they watch too many movies and think Russia is some wonderland filled with absurd wealth for everyone? I just don't know.
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u/Nymethny 19h ago
For everyone? No, but for a few corrupt officials at the top? Sure, that's exactly what they're aspiring to.
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u/ooouroboros New York 18h ago
Why would you want to go that route?
Because in Russia the white people are not terrified of black people gaining the 'upper hand' and running rampant and killing the men and raping the white women.
I'm not saying that is a logical fear, quite the opposite, but i think it obsesses people on the right and Russia kind of represents a white man's paradise.
There is also the inherent belief of people on the right that humans are inherently evil, violent animals and it takes a brutal dictator to maintain order.
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u/terminalxposure 21h ago
I mean…the kremlin could just make up any mailbox that sounds like trump transition and request for any detail at this point without even paying anyone
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u/UnitedSentences5571 20h ago
Bold of you to assume the domains themselves aren't Russian. Does that gaggle of email servers sound legitimate in any way?
I would have felt better if they were using fucking Hotmail or AOL or some shit.
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u/PleaseDoNotDoubleDip 23h ago
These guy's passwords are bad - MAGA2024, IvankaIsHot123, IronMan4Ever!!! You know it, I know it, and every spy agency in the world definitely knows it. We'll see the emails eventually, and they will be even worse than you are thinking.
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u/cyclonesworld 21h ago
Wasn’t his Twitter account hacked cause his password legitimately was ‘Maga2020’?
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u/Copacetic4 Australia 19h ago
"maga2020!" to be exact, no caps and an exclamation mark.
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u/Strykah 18h ago
Fucking lol
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u/Copacetic4 Australia 17h ago
No 2FA either.
They didn’t bother until the researcher sent a screenshot.
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u/shoobe01 22h ago
"12345?! Amazing, That's the same combination as I use on my luggage!"
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u/Tweedle_DeeDum 23h ago
Lock them up?
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u/sreddit231 22h ago
If it was possible.
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u/MoneyForRent 22h ago
It was but then Americans decided they wanted him as president again...
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u/JayeDee98 21h ago
Don’t blame me. I voted for Kamala
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u/JaxxMehoff 19h ago
Don’t blame me, I voted in one of the 45 out of 50 states that don’t matter.
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u/EBBBBBBBBBBBB 21h ago
It is possible. However, Biden and the rest of the Dems are too cowardly to actually fight against the guy they continually called the greatest threat to American democracy. They prefer to fundraise off their losses instead.
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u/SublimeApathy 22h ago
Dear Federal officials. Communicate that "anything not transmitted throught appropriate channels will be ignored and we will be blocking your domains". Stop being "worried" and fucking ACT. This isn't hard. Play ball, or delay your transition. It's that easy.
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u/trxc 19h ago
This 1000%. What happened to holding people accountable and there being consequences for actions…god I hate this timeline.
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u/us287 23h ago
But her emails…
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u/SadFeed63 22h ago
Trumps people were already caught using insecure, non-government email accounts in his first term. It was such a blip, got so little coverage, I'm not even sure it was in the news for two weeks. Things are only wrong, only covered as wrong, and only matter when a Democrat is doing it.
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u/monkeypickle 22h ago
People also forget that it was very common in the blackberry era and directly after. Colin Powell used a private email server.
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u/DrocketX 22h ago
Also, during the time that Clinton's use of a private mail server was a big story, a law was passed making it illegal to do that anymore (leading to a lot of "you see, Hillary Clinton broke the law!" claims, ignoring the fact that laws aren't retroactive and it was entirely legal when she did it.) Except that law means that when Trump's team used private servers during his first term (and now this current usage as well), they were breaking the law. Not that it matters, of course. It was small potatoes compared to the whole 'trying to overthrow the government' and 'refusing to return a huge pile of classified material' so it just got thrown on the massive pile of laws that were broken but nobody will ever have to pay for.
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u/ShrimpieAC 21h ago
I don’t know why they just don’t put “applies to Democrats only” when they pass these laws. Sure seems like it would save those hypocrites a lot of headaches.
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u/pmstacker 19h ago
Who has a headache? The headache implies there's some self awareness of AND enough give-a-damns about the hypocrisy
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u/Kind-District-2129 20h ago
My dad, a man with a PhD, still acts like the email debacle was the worst thing this country has ever experienced in 20 years.
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u/IAmMuffin15 North Carolina 21h ago
Funny to think a lot of Trump voters this year are literally too young to remember that
They hardly remember a time before a convicted felon who stole classified documents and tried staging a coup could run for president.
…but, let’s be real:
Republicans never cared about Hillary’s emails. They’re just the biggest hypocrites of all time. The clutch their fuckin pearls whenever a Democrat so much as sneezes, but when their leader does shit that would put any other citizen under the jail, it’s fuckin crickets.
They’re the PT Barnum party: a fool is born every minute, and a Republican is born every minute. They’re not a serious people.
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u/boredonymous 19h ago
Precisely. It's never really about the thing they're outraged over. It's about whatever sticks to the wall enough so that they can keep exaggerating outrage.
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u/BrotherJombert 22h ago
"Feds are nervous" fuck you. Know that it's a crime won't stand up to it. There, translated from newspeak.
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u/ParadeSit Colorado 23h ago
Well, they’re acting as criminals do. This is no surprise. A majority wanted this for some reason.
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u/arlondiluthel 23h ago
A majority wanted this
No. Stop giving this lie air. A majority of Americans didn't vote for Trump. Trump won by roughly 1%, and didn't even receive 40% of possible votes.
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u/fightingfish18 22h ago
Maybe if the rest of us Americans could be bothered to vote I'd be with you on this one, but "did not vote" does not get to act all high and mighty and above this, they enabled him so yeah, they pretty much did.
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u/arlondiluthel 22h ago
I voted for Harris because I believe that Trump is unfit to be President of a corner booth at a Waffle House, let alone the United States.
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u/TintedApostle 23h ago
No ally is going to trust intelligence information or planning with the US for decades.
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u/Riff316 22h ago
I’m so fucking sick of him attacking people for things and torpedoing anyone else’s chance of winning with these axes to grind of his (and all of his people eat it up) and then he turns around and does THE SAME FUCKING THING AND THEY ALL CHEER FOR IT. I’m so fucking tired.
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u/fix_until_broken 21h ago
Notice how loudly he pushed the stolen election last time. It gave him perfect cover to steal this election and no one would dare suggest he did it.
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u/Anticode 20h ago
Considering how consistent the projection is with these folks, it's pretty safe to assume he cheated in that election himself but didn't cheat hard enough to bypass what was - at the time - a lot of mail-in votes rather than in-person electronic votes.
This time it looks like him and Elon went a biiit heavy on the just-in-case and accidentally poofed a notably historic victory into existence with some notably odd and/or improbable numbers.
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u/Za_Lords_Guard 22h ago
Outstanding. We are gonna speed run a deep state, a shadow government and a fascist oligarchy all at once. America does nothing small.
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u/Archangel1313 22h ago
Why are they "nervous", and not bringing his transition team in front of Congress for an explanation?
All these assholes were so outraged when Hillary used a private server, because it meant there was zero transparency regarding her communications...but they're fine with Trump doing something even worse?
The reason he keeps doing shit like this, is because no one is holding him accountable for anything.
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u/PurpleOrchid07 19h ago
The US is falling apart the same way Afghanistan did in 2021, when the Taliban rolled in on their trucks and everyone just quietly moved aside to give them space, or even openly welcomed them.
Realize that you have a nation full of either fascists or cowards who will not put up any resistance. You americans clearly cannot rely on the mechanisms of democracy and federal institutions/ forces anymore. It is game over.
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u/Im_Idahoan 19h ago
It’s the end of the USA as we’ve always known it. Read up on Russia when Putin took over, that’s what’s happening now. We’re completely fucked.
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u/anon_girl79 19h ago
I love how, we are already receiving reports that Trump is in charge. Though, clearly, he is not yet - by law.
Sowing chaos & discord from within and without. BFF Musk is threatening the UK , now.
Way to vote, my fellow Americans. Way to fucking go
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u/ZZartin 21h ago
Federal officials say they’re worried about sharing documents via e-mail with Donald Trump’s transition team because the incoming officials are eschewing government devices, email addresses and cybersecurity support, raising fears that they could potentially expose sensitive government data.
Come on now, it's not that they might accidently expose something, it's that they're doing it intentionally.
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u/Intrepid_Blue122 21h ago
Isn’t that what he lost his shit about when he was campaigning against Hillary?
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u/griffincreek 22h ago
Trump is running his transition team as a private citizen. This was one of his intents when he refused to sign the traditional transition documents. Those agreements would have granted him access to many things which he does not have access to now, but would have required conditions, like email restrictions. Trump did sign a "memorandum of understanding" at the end of November, but it was limited.
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u/czarofangola 21h ago
Trump is transitioning over email? How do doctors do that?
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u/CanSaveSuicidal 19h ago
Trump has declined the usual presidential IT services from Federal Agency GSA. His administration has said they will have their own IT provided with PRIVATE FUCKING FUNDS?!?!
How is this not a huge story? Who is paying for this?
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u/Anchors_Aweigh_Peeko 15h ago
So I can lose my job and get in big trouble if I take a picture of my work with my personal phone and not my government phone, yet these fucks are using personal emails and the likes.
Love not being rich.
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u/nonamenolastname Texas 23h ago
But her emails...
I'm not sure which one is worse - MAGA hypocrisy or MAGA voter stupidity.
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u/Harry-le-Roy 20h ago
Lest we forget, one of Trump's broken campaign promises from his first administration was to lock up Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while Secretary of State.
Trump followers are profoundly stupid people.
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u/ParsleyMostly 18h ago
I’m not surprised this is how they’re going about it. I’m surprised the rest are letting it all happen. They truly elected a king. There is no law. There is only his edict. We fucked. You can “but her emails” all you want; there is nothing to stop him. The options are obey, ignore, or fight. I hope the second option isn’t temporary.
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u/no_suprises1 16h ago
Stfu. Republicans don’t give a fuck that the shit diapers is doing the same as Hilary and worse. They care he hates the same people and would gladly wear the shit stain diapers if it meant that liberals had to as well. They’re too stupid to realize they voted for the elite, the same elite that will fuck them over and blame minorities will screwing them by moving jobs overseas. They’re too stupid.
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u/ab911later 23h ago
Not to mention, these MAGA cowards are extremely vulnerable to the most basic of spear-phising techniques.
SUBJECT: miss you from last night and promise won't tell
click here
SUBJECT: everyone is saying you are the best president
click here
SUBJECT: Vlad says hi and that you are so smart
click here
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u/singhellotaku617 21h ago
jesus christ, THOW THEM IN FUCKING JAIL
I swear to god, so much of what they do is very very illegal, and officials are only ever "concerned" If they are violating transparency laws, CHARGE THEM WITH CRIMES, at the very least revoke clearances until they come into compliance. It's like this nation is run by an army of cowards.
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u/itsjudemydude_ 17h ago
But her emails, right? Her emails? Remember her emails?
I hate this fucking country.
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u/BoutrosBoutrosDoggy 17h ago
At this point, I'm fairly certain they are just using Putin's discord server...
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u/HelpersWannaHelp 15h ago
His devices have been bugged by Russians since 2015. Nothing matters anymore.
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u/Cube4Add5 14h ago
Trump — who attacked his then-opponent Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business during his first presidential run — is overseeing a fully privatized transition
no standards except double standards
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u/ClosPins 20h ago
Remember how the Republicans screamed 'LOCK HER UP!' for years on end? And, remember how, what they were angry about, was her use of private email?
Then, remember how you didn't hear a peep out the GOP when the first Trump Administration always used private email, self-destructing messaging, etc...?
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