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4 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
They prefer the terms "previous administration" and "former president."

In her 9 briefings since Jan. 21, Jen Psaki has only said his name once, and it was to tell reporters that they are so over him.

Why the Biden admin doesn't mention You-Know-Who

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
More in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Neera Tanden and Bernie Sanders met recently, per an official familiar with the meeting.

Pete w/ a campaign-esque Day 1 rollout

Cardona headed for bipartisan confirmation

Yellen divests stocks
For oppo book: Eric Lander, the director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, used to be very pro-leaking to reporters. ImageImage
thanks to all our readers. In the past 3 months, we've gone from 0 to 91,000 subscribers.

We're trying to get to 100,000 tho. Can you help? The most enthusiastic poster of this link gets to pick our daily "Are you [x Biden admin official] Friday.
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5 Feb
NEW Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

WH says don't expect Biden to talk about impeachment next week. Like at all.

Steve Ricchetti is giving in & is getting an official WH twitter, we're told. Welcome. Twitter's not real life, Steve. It's worse.
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Obama aides have been sending around this clip of Jon Tester this week from @MaritsaNBCMT where he talks about how Wednesday was the 1st time he was in the Oval.

Some felt sheepish about somehow never having him in the Oval during Obama’s 8 years.

The Biden admin's go-to dodge when pressed on the Covid bill:

Cedric Richmond: “Look, we're not going to negotiate on TV”

Ron Klain: "Chuck, I am not going to negotiate on Meet the Press”

Psaki: “I’m not going to negotiate from here”
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22 Jan
NEW: My deep dive into the 36-year McConnell-Biden relationship

How Biden's deal w/ McConnell on "fiscal cliff" made Reid so mad he demanded Obama bench Biden next time

a fresh look at the Bork hearings

Obama + aides skepticism that Joe can make it work
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Sen. COONS, a moderate Biden ally, says it would be "reductionist" to assume Biden won't get rid of the filibuster of his history/love of the Senate.

“We are in a dire crisis and he ISN'T going to sit by for four years and see his entire agenda stymied”
1 thing McConnell & Obama aides agree on: it wasn't that Obama didn't schmooze enuf w/ McConnell
Don "Stew" Stewart, McConnell's frm deputy Cos:
“It’s not personality, it’s policy. None of the beers or whiskey or anything matters. If your policy stinks, it’s not going anywhere”
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21 Jan
NEW in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Where’s Greg? (Schultz)
Biden’s first campaign manager is not join the admin now
He was angling for political director before it meant reporting to Jen O’Malley Dillon, who replaced him during the campaign.
politico.com/newsletters/tr…
Schultz has become a surprisingly divisive figure w/ some feeling he was made to be a scapegoat even though the theory of the case to win the primary proved correct

Others say they won in spite of Greg and the strategy came from many sr. Ppl.
Here’s one: “he couldn’t execute”
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is the new associate director for communications in the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

Gina Raimondo’s financial disclosure form is boring.

The left-wing praises Biden’s ethics plan (seriously)
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20 Jan
NEWS in Transition Playbook w/ @theodoricmeyer

Sen. Chris Coons on Biden 2024: “He is planning to run again."

More: "He knows that we are at the middle of an absolute turning point, a pivot point in American history. And he's up for the challenge.”

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Oppo Book: What did @RonaldKlain's wife say about Kevin Spacey playing him in the HBO movie about the 2000 Florida recount?

"He may be better-looking than you and more glamorous — but you have a full head of hair, and he doesn’t!”

FYI: Klain continues to have excellent hair
Trivia: which President said this in their 2nd inaugural address?
“During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare."

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20 Jan
NEWS in TP w/ @theodoricmeyer

How Biden ruined our cabinet predictions

sr. transition aides are staying on up to 60 days more including @AndrewBatesNC who is expected to go to WH after

& the Biden cabinet pick who used to host a weekly erotica reading
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Scoop: a list of the transition aides staying on for cabinet picks, etc. b/c of delays in confirmations

The virtual inauguration is also making it harder for Biden to reward his big inaugural donors. One event for major donors? a “preferred viewing” Zoom w/ Bradley Whitford.
and DNI nominee Avril Haines is the one who used to host erotica nights at a local bookstore she co-founded in Baltimore. Here's a write up from the Sun in 1995 w/ Haines reading lines from "The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty” (our summary below)

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9 Jan
NEW in Transition Playbook was @theodoricmeyer

Impeachment threatens the derail Biden transition, confirmation, early legislation.

A Senate trial (which prob won’t start til Jan. 20) will likely stall confirmations etc. for weeks, per rule experts.

politico.com/newsletters/tr…
you can change the rules on impeachment trials w/ a majority but
Unc’s Michael Gerhardt says: “If it got streamlined further I think some people would begin to question whether it’s a credible trial, and some of those people might be in the U.S. Senate”
the main purpose of continuing the impeachment process after Trump leaves office would be to disqualify him from running for president in 2024 or any federal office in the future.

That requires a separate vote by the Senate BUT only after a conviction with two-thirds majority.
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