He had announced the step in February, and now US President Trump has withdrawn several political opponents. This also includes former President Biden and his vice president Harris.
In a memorandum, US President Donald Trump has revoked the security releases for his predecessor Joe Biden, whose former Vice President Kamala Harris and other leading democrats and political opponents.
He found that access to wastelands for these people is “no longer under national interest”, it says. The memorandum calls a total of 15 people, including former Foreign Minister Antony Blinken and Trump's former opposite candidate in his first presidential race, Hillary Clinton.
Access to “safe facilities” is restricted
Furthermore, all members of Bidens family should be withdrawn their security approval. Trump instructed the heads of the relevant departments and authorities to revoke their security releases and immediately deprive the people mentioned to access closure matters.
In addition, the “unaccompanied access to secure facilities of the United States” should be denied them.
Biden also withdrew Trump Security approval
The step is not surprising. Trump had already announced at the beginning of February to want to deny some political opponents access to confidential information. In the case of Bidens, this also means that daily intelligence agencies no longer receive.
Trump justified the step in February with the fact that Biden had also refused access to certain information of national security after he took office in 2021. At that time, Biden had justified this with Trump's “erratic behavior”. Usually, former presidents retain a certain security approval even after they left the office.
