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bif

(26,671 posts)
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 07:46 AM Mar 2025

Tr*mp revokes security clearance for Biden, Harris, Clinton

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President Donald Trump revoked security clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and a string of top Democrats and political foes in a presidential memo late Friday.

“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information,” Trump wrote.

He went on to name a list of 15 opponents and Biden-era officials, including Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who prosecuted Trump for fraud, as well as former president Biden’s entire family.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-revokes-security-clearances-biden-032149113.html

Okay Adolph!

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Tr*mp revokes security clearance for Biden, Harris, Clinton (Original Post) bif Mar 2025 OP
May trmp spend eternity in the hottest, deepest holes of hell. spanone Mar 2025 #1
Sadistic dipshit! LW1977 Mar 2025 #2
Next comes their security detail. nt doc03 Mar 2025 #3
Is this legal?!?! InAbLuEsTaTe Mar 2025 #4
Probably not bif Mar 2025 #5
Don't we want the next president to pull Drumph's access? yagotme Mar 2025 #6
So childish and, at this point, only hurts his own administration karynnj Mar 2025 #7

yagotme

(4,129 posts)
6. Don't we want the next president to pull Drumph's access?
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:22 PM
Mar 2025

This sets precedent. He can't whine and cry when his access gets pulled.

karynnj

(60,779 posts)
7. So childish and, at this point, only hurts his own administration
Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:34 PM
Mar 2025

People can only access classified information if they have the appropriate security clearance AND a need to know the specific information. In addition, there was a tradition where former Presidents continued to have intelligence briefings.

What this action means is that the current administration people starting a new or changed diplomacy challenge can not easily meet with their predecessors who may have faced some of the same people or issues. Even if they philosophically agree on very little, their insight could be useful. Before engaging Putin, both Hillary and Kerry spoke to Kissinger. In Kerry's case, he had a very long history of being on the opposite side.

Trump, in both the current and his first term, essentially rejected not just Obama and Biden administrations but previous Republican administration.

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