Trump's team hits first roadblock as they start to assume power

Donald Trump's presidential transition team has already hit its first bump in the road after he won re-election Tuesday, reports the New York Times.

At issue is a failure to turn in paperwork –– now over a month overdue — that would clear the path to the turnover of sensitive documents which would allow the incoming administration to hit the ground running after the former president returns to the Oval Office.

That paperwork includes a "legally required ethics pledge stating that he will avoid conflicts of interest and other ethical concerns while in office" the absence of which has caused progress to come to halt.

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According to the report from the Times' Ken Bensinger, the failure to address the impasse has the potential to put America's security at risk.

Reporting, "While the transition team’s leadership has privately drafted an ethics code and a conflict-of-interest statement governing its staff, those documents do not include language, required under the law, that explains how Mr. Trump himself will address conflicts of interest during his presidency," Bensinger added, "The Trump transition’s ethics documents are silent on the question of Mr. Trump’s ethical conduct."

As it stands now, the administration of President Joe Biden is legally prohibited from providing the former president's transition team with classified intelligence and national defense briefings.

The report adds that the missing paperwork also blocks Trump's people from the "physical access to the 438 different federal agencies that they will soon control, and it cannot allow them to review their files."

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