- They should not be allowed access to classified material: Trump
- The ex-states United Presidents traditionally retain a security authorization.
- Trump has remained furious with Biden, attacks often.
Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, made Good Friday for a threat to revoke the security authorizations of his predecessor Joe Biden and several former officials of the White House and National Security.
The list of names stripped of their authorization to see the state secrets included Biden, the members of his family and the former vice president and presidential rival of Trump Kamala Harris.
The former Secretary of State and the defeated presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was on the list, together with Biden Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jacob Sullivan.
In a memorandum of the agency chiefs and distributed by the White House Communications Office, Trump said that the appointed officials should no longer be able to access classified material.
“Therefore, I direct all the executive departments and the head of the agency … to revoke the active security authorizations held by the aforementioned people,” Trump said.
“I also direct all the chiefs of executive department and agencies to revoke access without escort to ensure the facilities of the United States government of these people.”
Former American presidents and national security officials traditionally retain a security authorization as courtesy, and some consider useful for employment with private contractors.
But Trump, who continues to falsely affirmed that Biden planned to steal the 2020 elections, which he lost, has remained furious with his predecessor and frequently lashed out.
Trump was investigated for violating the security rules during the period between his first and second term in office, when storing classified white house documents in his Mar-a-Lago resort.
The investigation was over after Trump returned to office.
Many of the individuals in the Trump list were designated high -profile politicians of their Democratic predecessor, but the former republican legislator and vocal critic of Trump Liz Cheney is also named.
Fiona Hill, a British intelligence analyst who served under the Democratic and Republican administrations, even as an advisor at Trump’s White House, is objective.
The former colleague Alexander Vindman, a retired superior officer born in the kyiv in the United States Army who fell from Trump after expressing his concern for the contacts of the White House with Russia.
