Washington – President Trump said Friday night that he is “immediately revoking” the security authorization of former President Joe Biden and will prevent him from receiving intelligence reports.
“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Mr. Trump wrote In its true social platform.
Trump said he was taking the action because Biden did the same in 2021, establishing a precedent.
Biden Said CBS News in February 2021 You could not trust Trump to have access to classified information due to its “erratic behavior.”
“I prefer not to speculate aloud,” Biden said at that time. “I simply believe that there is no need for intelligence reports. What value is giving you intelligence information? What is impact at all, apart from the fact that I could slip and say something?”
Informative sessions are provided to former presidents after leaving office as courtesy.
Mr. Trump also cited A report by Robert Hurthe special lawyer who investigated the management of Biden classified materials after his vice presidency.
“The Hur report revealed that Biden suffers from” bad memory “and, even in his” cousin “, he could not trust confidential information,” Trump wrote.
The special lawyer made a series of observations on the memory of the then president who enraged Biden allies and provided political ammunition to the Republicans, including that he could appear to a jury as “an older, well intentional and greater man with a bad memory .
Hur finally refused to seek criminal charges against Biden for his handling of documents and said that the evidence did not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Biden had violated the law.
In one of his first executive actions since he returned to the White House, Mr. Trump Revocked The security authorizations of dozens of former intelligence officials signed a letter in 2020 stating that the emails found in a laptop owned by the son of Biden, Hunter, carried the distinctive stamps of a Russian misinformation campaign. Mr. Trump also lying The authorization of his former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, who has been intensely critical of him, as well as that of General Mark Milley, the former president of the Joint Chiefs of General Staff.