Trump team making false argument about his 2016 transition

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. His presidency was never accepted,” McEnany told reporters who questioned the Trump administration’s refusal to cooperate with the Biden transition. During his inaugural address, Trump thanked Obama and his wife, Michelle, “for their gracious aid throughout this transition” and called them “magnificent.” Trump’s team is not wrong that his own transition was chaotic, but the disarray in many ways was of his own doing. Christie, in his recent autobiography, wrote that 30 binders were discarded and that members of Trump's team “got rid of guidance that would have made their candidate an immensely more effective president” and “stole from the man they'd just helped elect the launch he so richly deserved.” McEnany and others have claimed that Trump was undermined by an FBI investigation that was opened in the summer of 2016 into possible election interference, a probe that was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller the following May after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Ric Grenell, Trump's former ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence, has said that what Obama offered “was not a peaceful transition” because the FBI was already working to undermine Trump.