Trump is using the transition process to punish Joe Biden

‘The failure of Donald Trump to have an effective presidential transition was a self-inflicted wound of arrogance,’ former FCC chairman warns

Ron Klain, incoming White House chief of staff, is warning about the effects of the Trump administration blocking the Biden transition team from doing traditional things.  (Getty Images)

Welcome to the transition unlike any other.

Donald Trump is using a decades-old process for preparing an incoming administration to deal with policy problems large and small as a punishment tool. As he has in the past, the president is using existing federal systems and processes against Joe Biden, the president-elect.

Mr Trump has tried this in the past: he pressed Ukraine’s president to announce an investigation into then-Vice President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden over the latter’s work for an energy company there while his father was helping oust what the West saw as a corrupt prosecutor.