Joe Biden says that the transition from the Trump administration to his own is going well, and that outreach from the present administration, across the board, has been sincere and not begrudging.
In short, Biden says that the behavior of the Trump administration has been the exact opposite of what the public has seen and heard from President Trump himself.
If you've been reading a lot news from Washington over the past four years, as I have, then surely it has struck you have often members of Trump's administration, as well as Republicans in Congress, have expressed strong opposition, even horror and disgust, to Trump, off the record.
What a strange approach: to privately oppose a leader whom you publicly slavishly follow and extravagantly praise. Will all of these Republicans ever go on the record and actually tell the truth right out in public about what they have been thinking and doing during the Trump Presidency?
Or, on the contrary, will there been so many Republicans who claim to have been secretly anti-Trump, secretly saving the world from Trump from within the belly of the beast, that it will be damned hard to believe all of them?
There's a problem with believing anyone who says, I was lying all that time, but now I'm telling the truth. Hey, come to think of it, that's sort of the whole point of that story which has been told to so many children, about the boy who lied about wolves being around.
There's a definite advantage to just telling the truth, publicly, privately, on the record, off the record, every which way. Several advantages. Several huge advantages. Several huge obvious advantages.
But if some Trump administration official or Republican Congressperson or Senator wants to try to explain to me why he or she was saying one thing in public and the exact opposite off the record, for four long years, and wants to explain to me how that behavior actually made some sort of sense, I'll listen.
For a little while, anyway.
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