A top Biden official was reportedly not told about the move, but one official suggested to Axios that it was just a delay due to the approaching holidays.
“We had fewer than two dozen remaining meetings on the schedule today and next week,” the official said. “These same senior leaders needed to do their day jobs and were being consumed by transition activities … With the holidays we are taking a knee for two weeks. We are still committed to a productive transition.”
President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign adviser Steve Cortes appeared to believe the move was related to recent reports about Hunter Biden and potential business dealings with the Chinese Communist Party.
both emphasizing that trump brought us to the brink of a major attack, trump saying he was cocked and loaded and there was evidence of that. whether the u.s. was this is close to a strike or farther or not close at all, that s a nuanced distinction. trump s clearly improvising it during had vacuum in civilian leadership for the military. the acting pentagon leave the building in controversy after five months in that role. and so if trump was really heading towards a strike, who is feel filling that vacuum for military advice. tv hosts on fox news. the president will have no choice. he will bomb the hell out of them. we have the most advanced weapons systems and a strong message needs to be sent that a huge price will be paid if you take on the united states of america. why would we talk to them? they re blowing up anchors of allies, they blow up our drone and then we ll talk to them?
pacing threat in the pacific. 10 times the ships they used to have, how about us, are we pairing that? make no mistake the u.s. navy is still superior but this defense budget specifically tries to improve our capabilities in air and space, we have also invested more in cyber and we are looking at improvements in the navy. this budget is every program driver towards saying china, watch out, the u.s. is going to say on guard in the pacific with allies and make sure that we keep our edge against china in the pacific. they have been doing so much at being so aggressive if you lived there and you is south china morning post, here is the headline yesterday, the south china post, forget the méxico border, new military budget is focused on china, china, china. acting pentagon chief names hypersonic missiles, space operations, technology theft and militarizing land in the china