Only Vladimir Putin and Xi Jianping rank above him.

Makes Buchanan (the previous holder of that title) look like a champ by comparison!

Nixon did. It takes a Republican to top a Republican.

What actual difference does this make?

loop and makes it easier for Trump to commit crimes and harder for us to see what’s coming.

The clearance is enormously valuable for private sector work in the defense, legal, and financial sectors (among many others). It ensures employers don't have to pay for it and gives them a leg up on obtaining government contracts.

It's a standard benefit of performing government service and shocking to see its removal for political ends.

Besides Cheney and other repubs who opposed him.

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...there are some notable consequences (not just because of these two, but also others whose clearances he similarly has had revoked). As others have said, there will be fewer people in a position to see some of the questionable things he might do behind the scenes; and those with revoked clearances have lost a valuable asset in their own employability. Also, while this president would have no interest in getting advice from these people, the next president might, and now these people's own information will be out-of-date when the next president takes office.

In this pro fascist Trump administration it also closes another potential means of us being warned against potential threats against us.

... it has to cross the threshold of "equal access", all get it, or all don't as a class: former goverment officials who held clearances in office.

No ex-official should probably hold clearances.

where the emperor performs acts of vengeance against people who he perceives “done him wrong”. Or maybe that’s what we’ve become.

The freak will keep expanding his Kremlin-dictated enemies list, until it includes everyone who's not just an unqualified shill for himself and the Kremlin. He'll get around to Barack Obama eventually, and on that day the smiles will mostly be on Democratic faces.

Maybe because he was the only one who would talk to trump at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

And it'll be hilarious when they do, like they when tried to bar Dwight Eisenhower as a Communist.

The sorry motherfuckers won't be happy until all prominent Democrats are in mortal danger. Democratic leadership better get busy, and damn fast.

While the revocations may not have immediate impacts, it is another sign of the growing political rift in Washington as Trump seeks revenge on his perceived enemies. The memorandum was issued hours after Trump arrived at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf property for the weekend.

Trump also targeted Republican former Representative Liz Cheney, a sharp Trump critic, former Biden White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on his National Security Council during his first term.
Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer in Washington who represents whistleblowers, and Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican lawmaker who is a sharp Trump critic, were among several others who had their security clearances revoked.
He had already revoked the security clearance for Biden, denying the former president to the traditional access to U.S. intelligence.

Former U.S. presidents have traditionally received intelligence briefings so they can advise incumbent presidents on national security and foreign policy. In 2021, Biden revoked the security clearance for Trump, who was then a former president.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pulls-security-clearances-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-2025-03-22/

yes INDEED

No surprise that Trump has no interest in getting advice.

…to classified information.

Biden pulled Trump and his families Security clearances before Biden even took office........The intelligence agencies had proof that Trump was giving, not only the U.S. inelligence, but every allied country's intelligence to Putin, and Jared was making many foreign trips to places like Saudi Arabia and selling the same to them.
For TWO BILLION dollars, he must have given the Saudi Prince all the military and nuclear info on every other country within thousands of miles of their country.......

I think it is safe to say, that NO allied country will EVER trust us again with their Intel.....

will be more names added to the list every week.

they all have friends in the Intelligence Community, and Military........

likely in anticipation of his attack on Mexico City... he wants his opposition completely oblivious.

Obama and Biden got content dense, multi page briefing books. Dumbass gets lots of pictures!

I hope he suffers a slow and excruciatingly painful death that he is fully aware of while it's happening. I want him to be so scared that it adds to his misery that should last at least a month.

Best case scenario: He runs away to someplace where he experiences all of the above while not being attended to by whomever he sought help from.

These people aren't "stars" or "athletes." They are public servants. What makes you think most of them could afford private security?

I guess you don't understand they could be targets for kidnapping and/or assassination. I can only guess you didn't live through the 1960s.

Before he does something even more extreme and bone headed. Like actually attack another country. Remember when he wanted to have military parades?

honestly, once you are out of government you don't need to have a security clearance. That goes for Trump and everyone in his administration too once they are out of office.