Tuesday, 24 November 2020_The General Services Administration has finally informed President-elect Joe Biden to begin transition into the White House despite President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Long after victory in the November 3 election, Biden could now have access to federal resources and services, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy told him in a letter on Monday.
“I want to thank Emily Murphy at GSA for her steadfast dedication and loyalty to our Country. She has been harassed, threatened, and abused – and I do not want to see this happen to her, her family, or employees of GSA,” the outgoing president said on Twitter. “Our case STRONGLY continues, we will keep up the good fight, and I believe we will prevail! Nevertheless, in the best interest of our Country, I am recommending that Emily and her team do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols, and have told my team to do the same.”
Murphy said she was “never directly or indirectly pressured by any executive branch official — including those who work at the White House or the GSA.”
“I do not think that an agency charged with improving federal procurement and property management should place itself above the constitutionally-based election process,” she wrote in a letter to Mr. Biden’s transition.
Trump had filed several lawsuits in battleground states to overturn the election results but to no avail.
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