***From Rolling Stone’s Nikki McCann Ramirez:***

*The former president may be looking to skirt financial and ethics guidelines should he win in November.*

American presidents are inaugurated in January, but the process of coordinating the change of the guard between an outgoing and incoming administration begins weeks before Americans cast their ballots in November. Nothing about this election cycle has been normal, but Donald Trump is breaking with yet another campaign expectation by refusing to participate in presidential transition preparations.

According to a Wednesday report from The New York Times, the former president has missed two major deadlines and failed to sign three documents necessary for the transition — two of which are required by federal law.

Trump remains insistent that he will reclaim the White House in November, and exact vengeance on those he believes stole a second administration from him in 2020. So why is he skirting the presidential transition process? It’s likely because signing the required documents would bind him to financial and ethical guidelines that he would rather avoid.

Read more: [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-campaign-presidential-transitional-deadlines-1235131646/](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-campaign-presidential-transitional-deadlines-1235131646/)