Trump’s Team Agrees To FBI Vet­ting Fol­low­ing New DOJ Agree­ment

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Trump’s Team Agrees To FBI Vetting Following New DOJ Agreement

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s tran­si­tion team announced Tues­day that they have final­ized an agree­ment with the Jus­tice Depart­ment to do back­ground checks on Trump’s team.

Trump’s tran­si­tion team signed a mem­o­ran­dum of under­stand­ing agree­ing to begin sub­mit­ting names for FBI back­ground checks, accord­ing to Reuters. The new agree­ment will enable the agency land­ing teams to access the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion for tak­ing charge of fed­er­al agen­cies and depart­ments.

“This agree­ment with the Depart­ment of Jus­tice will ensure Pres­i­dent Trump and his team are ready on Day 1 to begin enact­ing the Amer­i­ca First Agen­da that an over­whelm­ing major­i­ty of our nation sup­port­ed on Elec­tion Day,” said Trump’s incom­ing chief of staff Susie Wiles.

US President-elect Donald Trump next to CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship Dana White (L), attend UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden in New York, on November 16, 2024. US President-elect Donald Trump was greeted by chanting fans as he attended the Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight bout at New York's Madison Square Garden on November 16. Trump entered the arena shortly before the start of the main card accompanied by UFC chief executive Dana White, who was a prominent backer during his election campaign. Several political allies of Trump were also in attendance including entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who have been asked by Trump to lead efforts to cut government inefficiency. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

US Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump next to CEO of Ulti­mate Fight­ing Cham­pi­onship Dana White (L), attend UFC 309 at Madi­son Square Gar­den in New York, on Novem­ber 16, 2024. (Pho­to by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Get­ty Images)

Wiles served as Trump’s 2024 cam­paign man­ag­er, and she’s the first woman to hold the posi­tion of White House Chief of Staff as she leads Trump‘s sec­ond admin­is­tra­tion. “Susie Wiles just helped me achieve one of the great­est polit­i­cal vic­to­ries in Amer­i­can his­to­ry, and was an inte­gral part of both my 2016 and 2020 suc­cess­ful cam­paigns,” Trump said in a state­ment. (RELATED: Trump Defense Attor­neys Cite Biden’s ‘Extra­or­di­nary Con­dem­na­tion’ Of DOJ In Motion To Dis­miss)

The team had pre­vi­ous­ly signed an agree­ment with the White House to stream­line meet­ings between offi­cials across fed­er­al depart­ments and agen­cies and their coun­ter­parts for the Jan­u­ary tran­si­tion.

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