President-elect Donald J. Trump’s team will have some formal briefings with outgoing staff members, but it has so far refused to allow the F.B.I. to do security clearances for transition members.
Very likely because much of their team can’t pass a background check, and they know it.
Only liberals believe laws and rules should be followed. Fascists do not believe this, but they’re happy to play along and pretend they do until liberals give them all the power.
As Jon Stewart put it: Republicans rely on loopholes, Democrats rely on norms.