The people around Trump are crazy motherfucker types and Biden would be wise to get rid of anybody that has been placed in the Pentagon in these last few weeks.
Trump administration officials did not offer an explanation for why additional transition meetings in the Pentagon cannot be held before January.
The disagreement comes at a time when the Defense Department, in addition to having a leading role in overseeing vaccine distribution, is assessing what may have been compromised in a hack of government networks that analysts and U.S. officials speaking privately have attributed to Russia, and carrying out a partial withdrawal of several thousand U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Inauguration Day at President Trump’s behest.
The Trump administration also has purged numerous officials from nonpartisan Pentagon advisory boards in recent days, installing Trump loyalists in their place.