It’s not a question of whether President Donald Trump is leaving. He is. He has one foot out the door.
The real question is how much more chaos, destruction and hatefulness will he wreak before the door hits him in the backside.
Trump is a lame duck, but he’s still a powerful one for another 70 or so days. He retains the authorities of the presidency until noon on Jan. 20, and his refusal to concede the election seems designed as much for his own delusion as for that of his spineless un-American sycophants in the Republican Party – including Tennessee’s Chuck Fleischmann and Marsha Blackburn, and Georgia’s David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler.
On Monday, the White House escalated the Trump/Biden transition tension by ordering agencies to rebuff the Biden transition team – going so far as to even instruct senior government leaders to block cooperation with Biden’s transition team.
Jen Psaki, a new a senior adviser to Biden transition team, says the Trump administration order and the GSA’s refusal to sign off on an agreement that would release Biden’s $6.3 million share of nearly $10 million in congress-mandated transition resources, along with agency briefing books and memos, is just par-for-the-course Trump team obstruction. Add to that the fact that Trump Attorney General Bill Barr just handed prosecutors the authority to investigate voter fraud claims (though he did limit it to “specific allegations”).