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VDue to “getting down to business,” President-elect Joe Biden shrugged off President Donald Trump’s fierce refusal to accept the election result as “inconsequential,” even as Democrats elsewhere warned that the president’s actions Republican were dangerous.
By raising unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, Trump has prevented the incoming president from receiving intelligence reports and withheld federal funds intended to help facilitate the transfer of power. Trump’s resistance, backed by high-ranking Republicans in Washington and across the country, could also avoid background checks and security clearances for potential personnel and access to federal agencies to discuss transition planning.
As some Democrats and former Republican officials have warned of dire consequences, Biden sought to lower the national temperature yesterday while addressing reporters from a makeshift transitional headquarters near his home in downtown Wilmington.
Biden described Trump’s position as little more than an “embarrassing” mark on the outgoing president’s legacy, while predicting that Republicans on Capitol Hill would eventually come to terms with the reality of Biden’s victory. The Republican resistance, Biden said, “doesn’t change the dynamics of what we can do at all.”
Additional intelligence briefings “would be helpful,” added Biden, but “we don’t see anything holding us back.”
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