Portrait: Emily Murphy: The Woman Who Blocks Joe Biden

As long as Emily Murphy refuses to sign a document, the White House will remain closed to future President Joe Biden.

Your world are paragraphs and contracts. As the head of a nondescript agency called the General Services Administration, Emily Murphy manages American real estate
Federal government. 11,000 employees are subordinate to it. But her office rarely causes a stir – unless a top official is having sex with a colleague on the roof of the office building, as it was two years ago. Now the lawyer herself is suddenly in the spotlight. Because she is kind of a bouncer for Donald Trump in the White House.

“Congratulations! You are the most hated American woman! ”Tweeted Ben Meiselas, well-known lawyer and co-founder of a left activist group. One of the tasks of the top bureaucrat is to create the logistical prerequisites for a noiseless change of office by establishing the “presumed winner” of a presidential election. But Murphy doesn’t even think about it and so far refuses to sign.

Emily Murphy sees herself as the servant of her master Donald Trump

The confirmation is actually a formality. There was only one delay in six decades – when the president was only determined by a recount in Florida in 2000. At that time it was about 537 votes. This time, however, all TV channels have long since
Joe Biden proclaimed the winner, and the Democrat is not less than 10,000 votes ahead in any state.

Only one denies the obvious:
Donald Trump. And he got Murphy into office in 2017. Since then, the administrative woman has not attracted attention as a political activist. But she sees herself as her master’s servant and as long as she does not sign the form, the mammoth process of handing over the office comes to a halt, during which 4,000 positions are to be filled. A budget of 9.9 million dollars, which is specifically for the organization of the change of power, remains frozen.

What is more dramatic is that Biden does not receive any intelligence briefings and his employees have neither access to the ministries nor to the files – amid the dramatic wave of Covid infections. “If we don’t coordinate, more people could die,” warns Biden urgently. But Murphy sticks.

Critics urge Emily Murphy to initiate the handover

The fact that, according to friends, the 47-year-old feels “in a terrible situation” does not make matters any better from the point of view of her critics. A sensitive one CNN-The report on the officer has brought her up even further. Under the hashtag “MurphyBreakdown” (Murphy’s nervous breakdown), they are now gossiping about the head of authority’s “self-pity” and pushing for the handover to be initiated all the more urgently.

Actually, that should be entirely in Murphy’s sense. “I’m not here to make the headlines,” she said when she was called. Rather, its goal is to “make the government more accessible to the American people.” Apparently she hadn’t thought of the new president.

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