The lame duck Trump Administration isn't really into this whole bipartisan harmony idea

“Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.” https://t.co/2F4FpGgWmp

— Slate (@Slate) November 28, 2020

No matter how hard establishment Democrats try, Republicans just do not seem to value Bipartisanship for its own sake!

Isaac Arnsdorf reports for ProPublica, Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20 11/25/2020

Even as Trump and his allies officially refuse to concede the Nov. 3 election, the White House and federal agencies are hurrying to finish dozens of regulatory changes before Joe Biden is inaugurated on Jan. 20. The rules range from long-simmering administration priorities to last-minute scrambles and affect everything from creature comforts like showerheads and clothes washers to life-or-death issues like federal executions and international refugees. They impact everyone from the most powerful, such as oil drillers, drugmakers and tech startups, to the most vulnerable, such as families on food stamps, transgender people in homeless shelters, migrant workers and endangered species. ProPublica is tracking those regulations as they move through the rule-making process.

One change they are trying to rush through is to change Department of Agriculture regulation to allow chicken processors to speed up their production lines, which "could lead to more worker injuries and make it harder to stop germs like salmonella."

But, to be fair, the QAnon Republicans may think that salmonella outbreaks are a HOAX. You know, just like COVID-19.

And why not also sabotage nuclear nonproliferation and maybe try to start a war with Iran on the way out the door? Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran BBC News 11/27/2020:

Trita Parsi discusses the grim situation with Iran in How the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist can sabotage diplomacy & start a war Responsible Statecraft 11/27/2020.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blames Israel for the recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was "head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation" and who "was clearly still a key player" in the Iranian nuclear program. (Mohsen Fakhrizadeh: Iran vows to avenge scientist's assassination BBC News 11/28/2020)

Of course, we don't know at this point who was behind Fahrizadeh's assassination, and who knows when if ever the information will become public. Trita Parsi explains why it plausible to think that Israel was behind it. He also explains the international alignment in which Israel and Saudi Arabia perceive it in their interest to have the US go to war against Iran. It's a type of let's-you-and-him-fight kind of diplomacy on their point. Provoking military tensions and conflicts among other countries, of course, is nothing at all new in international relations.

Parsi explains:

While it’s highly unlikely that Israel would have carried out the assassination without a green light from the Trump administration, a more direct U.S. role cannot be entirely discounted. The Trump administration has reportedly run several joint sabotage operations with Israel against Iran’s nuclear facilities in the past year and relied in part on Israeli intelligence in carrying out the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani outside the Baghdad airport last January. Earlier this month, Trump himself reportedly raised the possibility of attacking Iran with his top national-security advisers, while it was just last week that the administration’s most prominent Iran hawk, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, well as leaders of Iran’s adversaries in the Persian Gulf, notably Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. [my emphasis]

In any event, conducting attacks in Iran has few downsides for Israel right now. Iran could lash out and spark a broader conflict that sucks in the United States, bringing about a U.S.-Iran confrontation that Netanyahu has long sought.

Or, if Iran sits tight to wait to deal with President-elect Joe Biden, the Trump administration is highly unlikely to impose any costs on other Israeli provocations.  [my emphasis]

Julian Borger (Iran scientist's assassination appears intended to undermine nuclear deal Guardian 11/27/2020):

Israel is widely agreed to be the most likely perpetrator. Mossad is reported to have been behind a string of assassinations of other Iranian nuclear scientists – reports Israeli officials have occasionally hinted were true.

According to former officials, the Obama administration leaned on Israel to discontinue those assassinations in 2013, as it started talks with Tehran that led two years later to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), by which Iran accepted constraints on its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

It would be a fair guess that Joe Biden would also oppose such assassinations when he takes office on 20 January and tries to reconstitute the JCPOA – which has been left wounded but just about alive in the wake of Donald Trump’s withdrawal in 2018.

He quotes Ellie Geranmayeh of the European Council on Foreign Relations, “The objective behind the killing wasn’t to hinder the nuclear programme but to undermine diplomacy.”

It's also a reminder that whatever Trump's America First foreign policy may have been, it was not a peace policy.