Team Trump is getting handover hints from Team Biden
Even winners can learn some lessons from the losers
AFTER a corporate raider pulls off a hostile takeover, why listen to the losers who ran the company before? To some around Donald Trump, the presidential transition on January 20th should follow a similar logic. Nominees for big jobs growl about crushing the deep state and firing federal officials who dissent. Yet in one policy realm at least—national security—the outgoing Biden administration has messages to pass on, and (modest) confidence that (some) Trump lieutenants may hear them.
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