{"id":34806,"date":"2020-12-18T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=34806"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T16:37:17","slug":"breaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-big-here-we-go-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings-biden-team-unaware-of-directive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=34806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-562774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/biden-halt-briefings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentagon discontinued briefings with the Biden Transition Team on Friday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pentagon-biden-transition-briefings-123a9658-4af1-4632-a6e6-770117784d60.html\">AXIOS<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of President-elect Biden, shocking officials across the Defense Department, senior administration officials tell Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes: <strong>A top Biden official was unaware of the directive.<\/strong> Administration officials left open the possibility cooperation would resume after a holiday pause. The officials were unsure what prompted Miller\u2019s action, or whether President Trump approved.<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters: Miller\u2019s move, which stunned officials throughout the Pentagon, was the biggest eruption yet of animus and mistrust toward the Biden team from the top level of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>What happened: Meetings between President Trump\u2019s team and the Biden team are going on throughout the government, after a delayed start as the administration dragged its feet on officially recognizing Biden as president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>Then on Thursday night, Miller \u2014 who was appointed Nov. 9, when Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper right after the election \u2014 ordered officials throughout the building to cancel scheduled transition meetings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UPDATED---- Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/crLb6XY_P7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DoD pushes back on AXIOS scoop that Acting Pentagon Defense Secretary halts Biden transition briefings &#8211; says Miller asked for 1 day pause and both teams agreed to two week break over the holidays. Expecting statement soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e24S9BM6qT\">https:\/\/t.co\/e24S9BM6qT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenGriffinFNC\/status\/1339954949812318209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2020\/12\/breaking-big-pentagon-halts-biden-transition-defense-briefings\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon discontinued briefings with the Biden Transition Team on Friday morning. AXIOS reported: Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller ordered a Pentagon-wide halt to cooperation with the transition of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/biden-halt-briefings.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/biden-halt-briefings.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"BREAKING BIG: Here We Go \u2014 Pentagon Halts Biden Transition Defense Briefings \u2014 Biden Team Unaware of Directive","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}