Elizabeth Warren accuses Donald Trump of violating transition law

"Breaking the precedent set by every other presidential candidate since 2010, you have rejected these resources and refused to commit to a smooth transition," Raskin wrote. 

"Your actions depart from well-established norms of the federal government and demonstrate a spectacular disregard for the successful continuation of the essential institutions of American democratic government," he added…

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4984590-trump-transition-law-violation-elizabeth-warren/

‘Really quite shocking’: Inside the ugly transition at the Pentagon - POLITICO

... Overall, the first transition official said they would give Trump's Pentagon team a "C- or D+" grade for their cooperation. 

"Ultimately the level of information that we were given access to was inadequate, I mean just grossly inadequate, particularly in the context of a historically unprecedented set of challenges that the nation is facing," the person said. "It's really quite shocking."...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/20/biden-pentagon-transition-460768

PolitiFact | Don't fall for rumors about a Trump-led military takeover, emergency alerts

... Military and federal communications officials both rejected the claims, and President Donald Trump has signaled he would support a peaceful transition to a new administration...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jan/13/facebook-posts/dont-fall-rumors-about-trump-led-military-takeover/

Why Trump's grudging 'concession' speech was literally unbelievable

Teleprompter Trump is not to be trusted.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-trump-s-grudging-concession-speech-was-literally-unbelievable-n1253441

Biden says Trump and his political appointees have blocked national security transition work, posing threats to the U.S. - The Washington Post

..."Right now, we just aren't getting all the information that we need from the outgoing administration in key national security areas. It's nothing short, in my view, of irresponsibility," Biden said of the resistance his teams were facing. He warned that such delays could allow enemies of the United States to take advantage of vulnerabilities, citing a massive cybersecurity breach that compromised several U.S. agencies earlier this month...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-trump-obstruction/2020/12/28/d4dd6e7e-4925-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html

Trump-appointed staff at USTR delay Biden transition - POLITICO

 USTR has made clear that a Trump political appointee will have to be present at meetings with career staffers, a former official said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/22/trump-trade-appointees-delay-biden-transition-449889

Trump is leaving behind crises and undermining Biden before he takes office - The Washington Post

... Trump's suggestion that he may run for office again gives him a personal stake in seeing Biden fail... 

"I think Trump is trying to seed the landscape with land mines," said Chris Whipple, author of "The Spymasters," a book about the CIA. "He's going to make the transition as painful as possible for Biden at every turn."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-undermine-biden/2020/12/20/999e2ab8-4152-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html

Trump loyalist Kash Patel blocking some Pentagon officials from helping Biden transition

"He told everybody we're not going to cooperate with the transition team," one former official said, and he has "put a lot of restrictions on it."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-loyalist-kash-patel-blocking-some-pentagon-officials-helping-biden-n1250053

Transition denier : facepalm

https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/jycujj/transition_denier/

What If President Trump Refuses to Leave the White House?

Despite losing the election, President Trump says he won’t concede. If push came to shove, would the Secret Service force him out?
https://youtu.be/bnhF_Qw0dtk

Jeh Johnson: Trump administration's refusal to aid transition a 'disservice to our national security' | TheHill

... it's a disservice to the American public...
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/526037-jeh-johnson-on-trumps-refusal-to-aid-transition-its-a-disservice

Longest-serving Senate Republican joins call for Biden to receive briefings | US news | The Guardian

Grassley says president-elect should have access to briefings as Ohio governor says Biden's victory should be recognized....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/12/james-lankford-republican-senator-biden-intelligence-briefings

Republicans echo Trump’s baseless election claims, undermining Biden's transition - The Washington Post

"Every one of these Republicans is lying," said Stevens, a senior adviser on the Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans. "They're sitting there a few miles from Arlington [National] Cemetery, where people died for democracy, and they can't get their communications shop to issue a two-sentence statement congratulating Biden."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-republicans-election-result/2020/11/10/a7283610-237a-11eb-952e-0c475972cfc0_story.html

McMaster: Trump suggestion he might not cede power is ‘gift to our adversaries’

Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might not cede power if he loses the presidential election to Joe Biden is “a gift to our adversaries”, the former national security adviser HR McMaster said on Sunday, though he added that “even talking about” the US military removing the president if necessary was “irresponsible”....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/27/trump-election-cede-power-hr-mcmaster

Leaked Trump transition doc flagged ‘white supremacy’ concerns for Kris Kobach - ThinkProgress.org

A massive trove of vetting documents from President Donald Trump's transition was leaked to Axios, revealing significant "red flags" for many prospective appointees...
https://thinkprogress.org/leaked-trump-vetting-docs-kris-kobach-white-supremacist-laura-ingraham-transphobic-429b4d2993c8/

The worst Cabinet ever gets worse - The Washington Post

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie (R), who has mostly acted as a sycophantic spinner on President Trump’s behalf in his stint as an ABC contributor, was more blunt Sunday on “This Week”: “He was ill-served right from the beginning by a group of people who threw all the transition work out, 35, 8-inch binders of vetting of over 350 people, that were consistent with his views, that they got rid of, literally threw in the garbage two or three days after the election, started over,” Christie said.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/04/02/the-worst-cabinet-ever-gets-worse/

Single Payer Opponents Say The Transition Process Would Be Too Difficult. But 10,000 People Do It Every Day. -- The Intercept

Opponents of single payer health care frequently claim that such a system might be wonderful in theory, but getting there would be too disruptive. Many Americans, the argument goes, have private health insurance coverage and the transition to a government plan would be jarring. ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/09/new-medicare-recipients-bernie-sanders-health-care/

‘A Sense of Dread’ for Civil Servants Shaken by Trump Transition (The New York Times)

Across the nation's bureaucracy, the new administration's upending of protocol and policy has stirred frustration, fear and, for some, talk of resistance. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/politics/a-sense-of-dread-for-civil-servants-shaken-by-trump-transition.html

White House website: Civil rights out, Melania’s jewelry in

The Trump administration’s transition had some interesting priorities....
https://thinkprogress.org/melania-jewelry-bio-51c29d1a91b9#.kmhc7zn21

Trump's bungling cripples his national security team right out of the gate

Remember when counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke described "hair on fire" moments at the beginning of W's presidency as his CIA director tried to get the president focused on a potential terrorist attack in the lead up to 9/11? Yeah, well, Obama's national security officials have been diligently prepping for the transition to the next national security team since last summer, producing some 275 briefing documents and 1,000 pages of classified material and, writes Mark Landler:

Nobody in the current administration knows whether anyone in the next has read any of it.

Really, Trump has made such a big show of whom he was going to pick for certain cabinet posts that he just hasn't had time to get the national security team in place—...
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1621858