US President Donald Trump has seized security approval from his previously defeated democratic elections of rivals, Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, as well as numerous other best former officials.
The move comes after Trump said in February He abolished security approval for his predecessor Joe Biden. He confirmed the move in the last announcement, adding that he also revoked the security approval of “any other member of the” Biden family.
“I found that it was no longer in the national interest to approach the next individuals with classified information,” he read the Trump Memorandum.
Former US presidents and the highest security officers usually hold their security approval as kindness.
Former Secretary of State Antony Blink and former Republican Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were also on the list of those who lost security approval – as well as Fiona Hill, a former Russian Advisor in the first Trump administration.
Other names were: Jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann and Alexander Vindman.
Trump has previously pulled out the safety approvals of more than four dozen former intelligence officials he accused of interfering with the 2020 elections in Biden’s benefit without giving evidence.
2021 Biden – who served the president at the time – forbade his defeated rival Trump to have access to intelligence briefings, citing his “misconduct”.
