Emily Murphy: Inside a government bureaucrat's pressure-filled decision to delay the transition

[crickets]

9. Wow. Good find.

But one top official who was involved in the Obama transition in 2008 speculated that the young attorney was put there “to keep tabs on Murphy.” The former transition member, who would discuss the matter only on the condition of anonymity, went further, speculating that Benishek “was installed there so the [White House] could fire the administrator and chief of staff, then have [Benishek] take over the agency to stop the ascertainment,” a reference to the process the GSA undertakes during a presidential transition.

Though Murphy is a Republican, she is not a White House insider, meaning that she may not be fully trusted to do the president’s bidding.

So even if Murphy did the right thing, trump is ready to fire her, with a loyal crony waiting in the wings. *sigh*