Trump Says Transition’s Going ‘Smoothly,’ Disputing Disarray Reports

President-elect Donald J. Trump denied Wednesday morning that his transition is in disarray, assailing news media reports about firings and infighting and insisting in an early-morning Twitter burst that everything is going “so smoothly.”

But legal and procedural delays by Mr. Trump’s transition team continued on Wednesday, all but freezing the traditional handoff of critical information from the current administration more than a week after Mr. Trump won the presidential election.

.. Of the transition effort, Mr. Trump wrote: “It is going so smoothly.”