Trump pulls security clearances for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton

[Bayard]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday rescinded the security clearances for former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others, according to a memorandum issued by the White House.
The Republican president, who has also revoked the security clearance for former President Joe Biden, faced Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and Harris in last year's election.





Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pulls-security-clearances-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-2025-03-22

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Just happened. More to come.

Well, I hate to get anything from Newsmax, but I can't find the rest of this story anywhere else. It does credit Reuters for the story. WTF?

The Orange Menace declared:
"I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information,” Trump wrote in the memorandum sent to all executive departments and agency heads before naming all of the individuals affected."

The list includes former Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and "any other member of Joe R. Biden's family," he wrote.

The individuals named in the memo have been central figures in various investigations, prosecutions, or political opposition to Trump during and after his first term. New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, for example, were involved in civil and criminal cases against the former president in New York.

Former Republican congressional lawmakers Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney served on the House January 6th Committee, while Jake Sullivan and Blinken were among the most senior officials in the current Biden administration.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Biggest jerk in U&S history.

[Initech]

13. Worst president in US history. In running for worst human being in the world.

Only Vladimir Putin and Xi Jianping rank above him.

[ShazzieB]

15. Definitely the worst potus ever!

Makes Buchanan (the previous holder of that title) look like a champ by comparison!

[Bengus81]

35. Biggest CRIMINAL to ever be President in our history. This POS blows away everything

Nixon did. It takes a Republican to top a Republican.

[Martin68]

2. This is the least of our problems right now. Harris and Clinton have no right to security clearances.

What actual difference does this make?

[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Lack of a security clearance utterly cuts them out of the

loop and makes it easier for Trump to commit crimes and harder for us to see what’s coming.

[Martin68]

5. What right do they have to be in the loop? They have no official post in government. Let's focus on real issues.

[cadoman]

7. it's a standard professional courtesy

The clearance is enormously valuable for private sector work in the defense, legal, and financial sectors (among many others). It ensures employers don't have to pay for it and gives them a leg up on obtaining government contracts.

It's a standard benefit of performing government service and shocking to see its removal for political ends.

[58Sunliner]

20. It is a real issue. Do you see him doing the same to republicans?

Besides Cheney and other repubs who opposed him.

[thesquanderer]

24. I agree that it's not a big issue, and it's not like we needed more evidence of how petty he can be, but...

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...there are some notable consequences (not just because of these two, but also others whose clearances he similarly has had revoked). As others have said, there will be fewer people in a position to see some of the questionable things he might do behind the scenes; and those with revoked clearances have lost a valuable asset in their own employability. Also, while this president would have no interest in getting advice from these people, the next president might, and now these people's own information will be out-of-date when the next president takes office.

[delisen]

25. It allows us to be a country united against foreign enemies

In this pro fascist Trump administration it also closes another potential means of us being warned against potential threats against us.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. Exactly right!!

[marble falls]

30. The problem is that it wasn't done as a matter of policy. It was done as retaliation, it was targeted ...

... it has to cross the threshold of "equal access", all get it, or all don't as a class: former goverment officials who held clearances in office.

No ex-official should probably hold clearances.

[choie]

29. This is not Nero's Rome

where the emperor performs acts of vengeance against people who he perceives “done him wrong”. Or maybe that’s what we’ve become.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

3. This is gonna be fun, Russia Boy.

The freak will keep expanding his Kremlin-dictated enemies list, until it includes everyone who's not just an unqualified shill for himself and the Kremlin. He'll get around to Barack Obama eventually, and on that day the smiles will mostly be on Democratic faces.

[Bayard]

9. I'm really surprised Obama didn't make the list

Maybe because he was the only one who would talk to trump at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

11. They'll try eventually.

And it'll be hilarious when they do, like they when tried to bar Dwight Eisenhower as a Communist.

[Paladin]

26. Exactly so: They'll come after Obama, eventually.

The sorry motherfuckers won't be happy until all prominent Democrats are in mortal danger. Democratic leadership better get busy, and damn fast.

[Bayard]

6. Update:

While the revocations may not have immediate impacts, it is another sign of the growing political rift in Washington as Trump seeks revenge on his perceived enemies. The memorandum was issued hours after Trump arrived at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf property for the weekend.

Trump also targeted Republican former Representative Liz Cheney, a sharp Trump critic, former Biden White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Fiona Hill, a Russia expert who served on his National Security Council during his first term.
Mark Zaid, a national security lawyer in Washington who represents whistleblowers, and Adam Kinzinger, a former Republican lawmaker who is a sharp Trump critic, were among several others who had their security clearances revoked.
He had already revoked the security clearance for Biden, denying the former president to the traditional access to U.S. intelligence.

Former U.S. presidents have traditionally received intelligence briefings so they can advise incumbent presidents on national security and foreign policy. In 2021, Biden revoked the security clearance for Trump, who was then a former president.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pulls-security-clearances-kamala-harris-hillary-clinton-2025-03-22/

[Skittles]

14. Trump's was revoked because he is a fucking Putin stooge

yes INDEED

[thesquanderer]

23. re: "so they can advise incumbent presidents"

No surprise that Trump has no interest in getting advice.

[GreenWave]

8. Still butt hurt about Elon trying to spy for China?

[3catwoman3]

10. It is not in the national interest for Trump to have access...

…to classified information.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. That was why

Biden pulled Trump and his families Security clearances before Biden even took office........The intelligence agencies had proof that Trump was giving, not only the U.S. inelligence, but every allied country's intelligence to Putin, and Jared was making many foreign trips to places like Saudi Arabia and selling the same to them.
For TWO BILLION dollars, he must have given the Saudi Prince all the military and nuclear info on every other country within thousands of miles of their country.......

I think it is safe to say, that NO allied country will EVER trust us again with their Intel.....

[moniss]

12. Until the person or persons who took the strawberries comes forward there

will be more names added to the list every week.

[johnnyfins]

16. Sounds like a paranoid man-baby to me

[DENVERPOPS]

17. Trust me

they all have friends in the Intelligence Community, and Military........

[wanzer]

19. he's creating the conditions for an information blackout

likely in anticipation of his attack on Mexico City... he wants his opposition completely oblivious.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Welcome to DU

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals

Presidential Memoranda
March 22, 2025

{snip}

[Maeve]

22. What a baby! My 5 year old grandson acts better than that

[Mopar151]

27. The Presidential Daily Brief

Obama and Biden got content dense, multi page briefing books. Dumbass gets lots of pictures!

[2naSalit]

31. Vindictive fucker...

I hope he suffers a slow and excruciatingly painful death that he is fully aware of while it's happening. I want him to be so scared that it adds to his misery that should last at least a month.

Best case scenario: He runs away to someplace where he experiences all of the above while not being attended to by whomever he sought help from.

[FakeNoose]

34. He's obsessed with getting revenge, it's the only thing he lives for

[valleyrogue]

38. What a strange comment.

These people aren't "stars" or "athletes." They are public servants. What makes you think most of them could afford private security?

I guess you don't understand they could be targets for kidnapping and/or assassination. I can only guess you didn't live through the 1960s.

[Bayard]

33. I agree with others that he doesn't want us to have a heads up,

Before he does something even more extreme and bone headed. Like actually attack another country. Remember when he wanted to have military parades?

[Deminpenn]

37. Petty and revenge fueled, but

honestly, once you are out of government you don't need to have a security clearance. That goes for Trump and everyone in his administration too once they are out of office.