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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen Langford R-Oaka will intervene by Friday if Biden doesn't get daily intelligence briefings
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Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Wednesday he will intervene if the Trump administration doesnt start providing Biden with daily intelligence briefings by Friday as part of the transfer of power to the new administration.
There is no loss from him getting the briefings and to be able to do that," Lankford told Tulsa radio station KRMG in an interview. "And if thats not occurring by Friday, I will step in as well and be able to push and to say, This needs to occur so that regardless of the outcome of the election, whichever way that it goes, people can be ready for that actual task.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/11/11/joe-biden-trump-election-live-updates/
drray23
(7,627 posts)does he have a magic trump remote command to make him do the right thing ?
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)he knows how to deal with bratty children.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Thanks much, sir!
Hekate
(90,645 posts)I surely appreciate the sentiment, but would like to know his intervention will have some results.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)Don't put the bar too high.
Unless I missed Lankford coming out previously as a never Trumper, it seems like a big deal that someone so far off the edge of right winginess is doing this.
rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)rzemanfl
(29,556 posts)While I abhor cruelty to animals, fuck him and the horse he rode in on.
FloridaBlues
(4,007 posts)Cha
(297,153 posts)buying trump's continual break from REALITY!
And, yes we already do have an "outcome" known.. President Elect Joe Biden.
I'm sure that he had to add that part about "outcome" in to avoid the wrath of the Trumpistas. What a sad sorry state of affairs we live in.
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)blogslut
(37,999 posts)Lankford presents as a goody-goody but for all his external gravitas he has yet to prove it.
Trumpdumper
(171 posts)Let's keep things in perspective about Oklahoma. You will not find a majority in any town or city in that state that would concur with DU sentiment, even in its most liberal enclaves. We should be appreciative of those who are normal, even if we don't like the way they vote.
Demsrule86
(68,552 posts)The election is over Senator and Trump lost.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,406 posts)but good sign, nonetheless.
crickets
(25,962 posts)1/ We already know the outcome of the election. Biden won.
2/ If this matters enough to take care of it in the future, why wait? Do it now.
In the article about his radio interview, Lankford sounds like he's using the same phrasing that he plans to use on trump and the GSA. He's using soft, mushy phrasing to mollify trump's base. It's time to stop coddling this idiot and his base. He LOST. Also, nowhere in the article does anyone bother to make the point that there shouldn't be a need for some random Republican Senator to 'step in.' trump and the GSA are way out of line.
https://www.krmg.com/news/local/lankford-guarantees-peaceful-transition-talks-about-covid-vaccine-prospects/HURH354TWVCJNHVXM4DEUK332A/
dchill
(38,471 posts)...for something that should have been said DAYS AGO by every single Republican Senator.
Regardless of the outcome, my ass.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)if they're defusing the delusional situation with more delusions
ancianita
(36,023 posts)This sounds like virtue signaling that's really self promotion delusion.
JoeOtterbein
(7,700 posts)WTH?????
UTUSN
(70,683 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 12, 2020, 02:17 AM - Edit history (1)
NNadir
(33,512 posts)djacq
(1,633 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)They just cannot seem to break themselves away from Reagan's 13th Commandment.......
malaise
(268,930 posts)One more liar
Fiendish Thingy
(15,585 posts)C Moon
(12,212 posts)Once this is all over, it will be very interesting to hear what was going on in the WH.
Probably some pretty good books and movies coming out of it.