- They should not be allowed to access classified equipment: Trump
- Ex-presidents traditionally retain security authorization.
- Trump has been furious against Biden, is often unleashed.
Washington: US President Donald Trump went saint to a threat to revoke the security authorizations of his predecessor Joe Biden and several former managers of the White House and National Security.
The list of names stripped of their authorization to see the secret secrets included Biden, family members and former vice-president and presidential rival of Trump, Kamala Harris.
The former secretary of state and defeated the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was on the list, with the secretary of state of Biden, Antony Blinken and the national security advisor Jacob Sullivan.
In a memorandum to agency chiefs and distributed by the White House communications office, Trump said that appointed officials should no longer be allowed to access classified documents.
“I direct by this all the executive departments and agency chiefs … to revoke the active security authorizations held by the above -mentioned individuals,” said Trump.
“I also direct all the heads of department and agency to revoke access without escort to secure the facilities of the American government of these people.”
Former American presidents and national security officials traditionally retain security authorization as courtesy, and some find it useful for looking for a job with private entrepreneurs.
But Trump, who continues to wrongly claim that Biden designed to steal the 2020 elections, which he lost, remained furious with his predecessor and is ranging frequently.
Trump himself was the subject of an investigation for breaking the safety rules during the period between his first and second term, by storing classified documents in the White House in his seaside resort of Mar-A-Lago.
The investigation was completed after Trump came into office.
Many individuals on Trump’s list were high -level political names in his Democratic predecessor, but the former republican legislator and vocal critic of Trump Liz Cheney is also appointed.
Fiona Hill, an intelligence analyst of British origin who served under the Democrats and Republican administrations, especially as a Trump’s White House advisor, is targeted.
She is joined by former colleague Alexander Vindman, an officer superior to kyiv’s original retirement in the US military who fell against Trump after having expressed his concerns about the white house contacts with Russia.
