Biden needs to make sure Trump doesn't get a PDB after he leaves

[Renew Deal]

And he needs to strip clearances form his family. None of them can be trusted with America's secrets.

[bullimiami]

1. how about you subject trump to a security clearance before he gets any info.

[sop]

2. The POS would monetize the information.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Trump does not read PDBs or believe what they say.

[Renew Deal]

5. Just another reason to not deliver them.

I don't trust him and his crime family with the info.

[JHB]

25. That could change if he's left with that as a potential income source

Not the "believe" part, of course, and maybe not even the reading part, but you can be sure somebody will be in his orbit willing to pay him to find out what's in them.

[leftieNanner]

4. Especially Jared

I would not be at all surprised to learn that he has been selling that information to keep his business afloat.

Wouldn't it be delicious if we found evidence of that..............

"How do you feel about orange, Jared?"

[misanthrope]

9. Maybe the whole lot can undergo this procedure

and we can dispense of whatever security intel they retain.

[DBoon]

21. or this?

[Generic Other]

6. The kids never got security clearances

and he doesn't read. But yeah. No secrets.

[Renew Deal]

8. Jared and Ivanka got clearances

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-clearances/whistleblower-says-ivanka-jared-got-security-clearance-over-experts-advice-idUSKCN1RD2HU

[Generic Other]

13. Wow.

Sick.

[Baked Potato]

11. They did, but should never have.

[TwilightZone]

12. Ivanka and Jared have clearances

Ivanka and Jared got security clearances over the objections of experts. Trump overruled his staff.

The only reason Don Jr doesn't have one is that he's not officially a member of the administration.

Eric doesn't have one because he's an idiot and also not a member of the admin.

[JHB]

26. Don't be unfair to Eric! Both his reasons apply to Junior too, not just the one.

[TwilightZone]

28. True.

Though, I think Eric has probably locked down dumber in the dumb and dumber relationship.

I think Don Jr. just plays dumb a lot of the time. Eric is dumb all of the time.

[JPK]

7. Putin phone calls

Who knows what he's told Putin. Let's hope National Intel was monitoring unknown to Trump. I'm also pretty sure the military and intel agencies fed him as little critical information as possible.

[Codeine]

10. Meh. Just use big words and small print

and he’ll never look at them.

[Renew Deal]

19. I'm worried about the people around him looking at it.

[meadowlander]

14. Surely that's a custom not a law.

[Baked Potato]

15. The ones that piss me off are Bannon and Gorka.

I don’t know the status of these two, but hopefully they aren’t ever cleared.

[Renew Deal]

17. Bannon has one. Gorka's was revoked.

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/347206-bannons-security-clearance-a-challenge-outside-the-white-house-experts

"Gorka, a former White House adviser, was reportedly informed while he was on vacation by chief of staff John Kelly that his security clearance had been revoked, though it's not clear why.
Since Gorka's job was dependent on a security clearance, he was given little choice but to resign last August."

https://www.businessinsider.com/security-clearance-controversies-trump-white-house-2018-2#former-deputy-assistant-sebastian-gorka-4

[Baked Potato]

29. Hmmm, ok, thanks for that..

[Layzeebeaver]

16. First he needs to establish the Trump is a domestic national security threat

Then the PDB can be withdrawn

[Renew Deal]

18. I would just not send it.

But that works too. Hopefully Trump doesn't request it.

[Raven123]

20. Pretty low hurdle in Trump's case

[Layzeebeaver]

22. lol.so true!

[keithbvadu2]

23. jared considers a security clearance to be a license to sell our country's secrets.

[Dem2]

24. He never read one anyway

Not sure he even understands what's in them.

[JHB]

27. No, but somebody around him will.

Read it, that is. The only part of it they'll really understand is who they pass it on to.

[hvn_nbr_2]

30. Just keep giving him the crayon and stick-figure version he's been getting.

Remove the words. He won't notice since he never read them anyway.

Keeping giving him "briefings" would be a handy way to feed disinformation to Putin.