Remember when they sabotaged Trump in 2016? They will do it again, investigative journalist warns

After President-elect Donald Trump’s historic win in the U.S. 2024 election, the transition is starting to get underway but for an investigative journalist, sabotage is still not ruled out as this already happened when Trump won in 2016 against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

KanekoaTheGreat shared his concern, attaching a montage of mainstream media reports talking about the Left’s narrative meant to destroy the 45th POTUS even before he assumed office back then.

“In 2016, there was no peaceful transition of power. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party weaponized the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] FBI, [Department of Justice] DOJ and the legacy media to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent,” Kaneoka tweeted.

He went on to say that the left wing lied to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court multiple times to secure wiretaps and surveillance on Trump and his team. He further said that federal agency heads fed disinformation to the media for years to undermine Trump, who the journalist called “the first populist outsider in recent history.” (Related: Trump’s impressive political comeback against all odds makes headlines around the world.)

“The same media that dismissed Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation perpetuated the ‘very fine people’ hoax, and portrayed Joe Biden as ‘sharp as a tack’ also lied to the public about the integrity of the 2020 election,” it pointed out, citing the Russiagate, along with disinformation campaigns and social media censorship from the left to have fueled widespread distrust and deep frustration with the government institutions.

In 2016, there was no peaceful transition of power. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the Democratic Party weaponized the FBI, DOJ, and the legacy media to frame Donald Trump as a Russian agent.

They lied to a FISA court multiple times to secure wiretaps and surveillance on… pic.twitter.com/VnzVUyyvZG

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) November 6, 2024

This, he said, led to events of Jan. 6, 2021, comparing the “peaceful protest” with the violent Black Lives Matter rallies which caused billions in damages across multiple cities in the United States.

“Yet [the Left] continues to focus on January 6th because they are obsessed with smearing President Trump and his supporters while projecting moral superiority,” he argued. “Russiagate was always seen as the real insurrection, a coordinated attempt by the Washington establishment, unelected bureaucrats, and national institutions to overthrow the American people’s choice for president.”

Meanwhile, the White House announced that President Joe Biden will meet with Trump for the traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Nov. 13. This customary activity is meant partly to mark the start of a peaceful transfer of power under America’s democracy.

In a speech Thursday, Biden said he had assured Trump “that I would direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition. That’s what the American people deserve.”

Trump’s team commences high-gear transition effort

According to people familiar with the process, Trump has already begun assembling his transition team and possible cabinet members.

His team met in Las Vegas over the weekend with members of the Rockbridge Network, a conservative donor network co-founded by Vice President-elect JD Vance. The 47th U.S. president also announced that New York real-estate developer Steve Witkoff and former Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R., Ga.) would co-chair his inaugural committee.

Also, his transition officials are planning to present a range of options for hires in the federal government he will soon lead, the sources further said in a report in the Wall Street Journal. The digital presentations, on a screen instead of in briefing books, will feature details of candidates’ resumes and are intended to give the president-elect an easy way to pore over his options.

He also said he was naming Tom Homan to oversee a planned mass deportation effort, describing it on social media as “in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.” Homan is his former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director.

Next up, national security and economic positions are likely to be the focus, the people familiar with the process added, saying that the transition is working with several outside firms that are conducting more traditional vetting of candidates’ backgrounds. The firms are vetting hundreds of contenders for senior jobs.

Trump’s advisers said the president-elect has had informal discussions with friends and allies about the people he likes for key jobs.

People familiar with his thinking say his top choices for the next Treasury secretary are veteran investors Scott Bessent and John Paulson, as well as Sen. Bill Hagerty, (R-TN). Trump met with Bessent at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, according to people briefed on the meeting.

Several of the candidates for Treasury secretary and other cabinet positions have appeared on television before and after Election Day, including Bessent, Hagerty and former Securities and Exchange Commission chair Jay Clayton, who is angling for a job in the administration.

Contenders for other key positions are also coming into focus. Linda McMahon, the former head of the Small Business Administration and a co-chair of Trump’s transition, is seen as the front-runner to lead the Commerce Department.

Trump declared on social media Saturday night that two officials from his first term, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, wouldn’t be landing jobs in his second administration.

Meanwhile, one of his transition officials Mark Paoletta warned the DOJ that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta wrote in a post on X.

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Sources for this article include:

Time.com

WSJ.com

Politico.com