Biden Aide Says Pentagon DID Stop Transition Meetings, Amid Speculation Trump is Preparing to ‘Cross the Rubicon’

NEW: @YohannesAbraham makes it plain: "There was no mutually agreed-upon holiday break. In fact, we believe it's important" the briefings continue "as there's no time to spare" in preparing for national security contingencies.

Transition team informed yesterday mtgs would end

— Paul D. Shinkman (@PDShinkman) December 18, 2020

• Biden Aide Says Pentagon DID Stop Transition Meetings, Amid Speculation Trump is Preparing to ‘Cross the Rubicon’
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Joe Biden’s transition team said there was no agreement to pause meetings over the holidays, contradicting the Pentagon, as confusion mounted in Washington and some Donald Trump supporters urged the president to make like Caesar.
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  A sensationally titled Axios report claimed on Friday that Trump’s acting defense secretary, Chris Miller, had ordered a “total halt” to briefings and meetings with Biden’s transition staff, citing anonymous officials as saying it was to give the Pentagon staff a break for the holidays.
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  “This isn’t true,” Richard Grenell, a former acting director of national intelligence, tweeted back at Axios, calling their story “click bait reporting” driven by politically motivated sources with agendas.
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  Apparently prompted by the Axios report, Miller issued a statement on Friday afternoon confirming that the meetings have been “rescheduled” and will continue “after the mutually-agreed upon holiday pause, which begins tomorrow.”
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  Yohannes Abraham, executive director of Biden’s transition team, told reporters that no such agreement existed, however. “We were concerned to learn this week about an abrupt halt in the already limited cooperation there,” Abraham said, according to Reuters.
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As General Washington crossed the Delaware in one of the greatest acts of courage in history, then went further to establish our Republic, now #WeThePeople came at the moment when President Trump might have to #CrossTheRubicon to save this same Republic.#POTUS @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/49mjn8itvg

— D Alex (@D_Alex_connect) December 18, 2020

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