President Donald Trump said Friday he is revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearances and access to intelligence reports after Biden did the same thing to Trump in 2021.
"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings."
Biden cut Trump off from intelligence reports shortly after taking office in 2021. The decision came a month after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Biden said Trump's "erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection" warranted the move. The intelligence information traditionally is provided to former presidents.
“There is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings,” Biden said at the time. “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
Trump said in a social media post Friday that Biden "set this precedent in 2021" and jabbed at him, saying that Biden "even in his 'prime,' could not be trusted with sensitive information."
Trump also has revoked the security clearances of former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter stating emails from Hunter Biden's computer bore “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." And he ended security details from John Bolton and Anthony Fauci, high-profile figures in his first administration he has clashed with.
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