State Department is preventing Biden from accessing messages from foreign leaders
Last edited Wed Nov 11, 2020, 10:42 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: CNN
Traditionally, the State Department supports all communications for the President-elect, which is why many countries began sending messages to State over the weekend. But with Biden prohibited from accessing State Department resources by the Trump administration, because President Donald Trump refuses to accept Biden's victory, dozens of incoming messages have not been received.
Biden's team is contacting foreign governments on their own and he has held numerous calls with leaders, including Germany's Angela Merkel and Canada's Justin Trudeau. But they are operating without the logistical and translation support that the State Department operations center provides.
"They would prefer to be using the State Department resources," said a source familiar with the situation, who noted that the Biden team is having to deal with the unexpected challenge of facilitating these calls.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/11/politics/state-department-biden-messages/index.html
liberalla
(9,238 posts)iluvtennis
(19,850 posts)SledDriver
(2,059 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Despite completely locking him out of State Department resources?
Would this surprise anyone?
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)A stack of messages IS sitting.
Blues Heron
(5,931 posts)someone needs to be held accountable for this egregious breach of trust.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)They are actively prohibiting the newly elected President of the United States from communicating with world leaders.
Jail time, nothing less.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)If Trump managed to somehow, against all odds, have enough loyalists to conduct a successful coup, after that, what does he think will happen? He won't get any more respect or cooperation from any "ally" democratic nations, if he ever had them. Its too late. Arizona and counting+
orangecrush
(19,537 posts)For a bunch of Trump administration toadies.
disndat
(1,887 posts)as he is afraid of facing the tremendous joy all over the world that he is no longer POTUS.
Bayard
(22,061 posts)Weasel.