As Trump assembles dictatorial regime, Biden offers "smoothest" transition

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump responded, "I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth, it'll be as smooth as you can get."
76% : When Trump first won election to the presidency in 2016, Obama welcomed him to the White House and declared the election an "intramural scrimmage" between two sides on the same team.
75% : Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has begun a "listening" tour to speak to Bronx constituents who voted for her and Trump on November 5.
65% : Gaetz helped charter buses to Washington for the rally addressed by Trump.
57% : Now, he opened the White House to his successor, initiated a handshake for the press photographers to capture and congratulated Trump on his electoral success.
51% : After the meeting, Trump confirmed the discussions on Ukraine and the Middle East.
45% : Trump is seeking a further expansion of his authority by demanding that the newly elected Senate Majority Leader, John Thune of South Dakota, agree to unlimited adjournments at the president's request, during which time Trump would be able to fill cabinet posts with "recess appointments" that would not have to clear a vote in the Senate.
43% : This means that Trump and the Republicans will control the White House, the US Senate, the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court, where a six-three ultra-right majority ruled last summer that Trump has absolute immunity for any action he takes as president, no matter how illegal, unconstitutional or corrupt.
40% : This would violate the constitutional requirement that the upper house give its "advice and consent" for nominations to high-level executive and judicial posts, effectively giving Trump the ability to rule by decree.
33% : Aides are also discussing ways to give Trump the ability to impose massive social cuts proposed by Elon Musk as part of the "Department of Government Efficiency," without any congressional approval.
26% : In his speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, Biden warned that Trump would "be a dictator on day one."
25% : The 42-year-old Florida congressman is a close associate of the fascist Steve Bannon and one of the most fervent supporters of Trump in the House Republican caucus.
24% : Trump's initial nominations for national security positions have been a slew of anti-China hawks, including Senator Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, Representative Michael Waltz for National Security Advisor, Representative Elise Stefanik for UN Ambassador, and Fox News pundit Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense.
23% : The public photo-op was followed a closed-door, two-hour meeting, at which Biden and Trump primarily discussed foreign policy, according to subsequent press accounts, including the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine, the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and wider war moves in the Middle East, focused on Iran.
21% : The nomination of Gaetz coincided with other developments cementing the control of official Washington by Trump and his fascist cohorts.
21% : Trump, of course, took no such approach when he lost the 2020 election by 7 million votes, instead seeking to overturn the result through a violent coup.
17% : In effect, this would be an instrument to purge the military of officers deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump who might repeat the objections of General Mark Milley and other top officers to Trump's demands in 2020 to deploy the Army on the streets against the American people.
14% : Now Biden has repeated Obama's welcome to Trump, under conditions in which virtually every leading Democrat has acknowledged that Trump's intentions are to establish an authoritarian dictatorship.
11% : "Gaetz is one of the House Republicans most closely identified with the violent assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a mob summoned by Trump sought to block the congressional certification of his defeat by Biden in the 2020 election.
0% : Biden called Trump "Donald," and Trump called him "Joe."Only a month ago, Biden acknowledged Trump was a fascist.

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