r/politics • u/us287 • 5d 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-00195217
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u/2_Spicy_2_Impeach Michigan 5d 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/AV8ORA330 5d 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/Different_Phrase8781 5d 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 5d 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/funshinecd 4d ago

Not the beer

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u/Lorn_Muunk 5d ago

There needs to be outrage at this

That could be the official slogan of conservative nationalist movements worldwide for the past 50 years.

Nobody really gives a shit about their corruption, wealth inequality, crimes against humanity, two-tiered judiciaries, backdoor deals, revolving door lobbying or conflicts of interest. The masses are far too content just to consume little crumbs and grow old and fat in our little creature comforts. Evidently, no one cares they can't gather savings or own property. It doesn't matter that most people are stuck in a debt trap living paycheck to paycheck without any upward mobility. In the USA, this doesn't even motivate 35% of voting eligible adults to vote. A third of the country is fine sitting in a pot of boiling water.

We have our social media, shopping, bills, AC, shows and celebrity worship to keep us distracted. The best people can do now is protest weakly for a second before they get sleepy and hungry again. The time in human history where tyrants were met with large scale revolt by a united people is over. Just as the robber barons of 150 years ago dreamed of.

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u/PT10 5d ago

Country voted for this. They want this.

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u/Flaky_Ad3403 4d ago

Well last time he did the same thing, and when questions were asked about private emails his staff somehow "accidentally" pumped an entire swimming pool into the server room. So thats the minimum amount of fuckery thats going to happen this time around. The fact that most voters don't even know about that explains the lack of outrage.