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Summary
Trump revoked Joe Biden’s access to classified intelligence briefings, citing Biden’s 2021 decision to cut off Trump’s access.
Trump framed the move as part of his campaign promise to target political opponents.
He also revoked security clearances for ex-officials and dismissed the U.S. archivist.
Biden previously justified barring Trump from briefings over national security concerns.
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Ignoring the current pettiness…
Why should any former president be privy to intelligence briefings?
Biden summed it up pretty well, without actually saying Trump might be a Russian asset:
“I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings,” Biden said. “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
Traditionally, new presidents value the input of the previous ones. They’ve been dealing with the recent geopolitical situation for years. Ideally we should strive for mentorship between administrations, president is a complex job and humans tend to do best when we pass along our wisdom. Things have gotten particularly kooky recently.
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks.
It’s pretty fucked that we are at the point where the idea of collaboration between administrations from different parties is so foreign that it doesn’t even register as a possible explanation for something like this.
To be clear, that’s not meant to be a criticism of you but rather a comment on how divided we are as a nation.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian and have had a couple beers
But you’re right about my interpretation. Although, I wasn’t thinking of presidents being adversarial to each I just wasn’t thinking how they’d help each other either.
“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.
“JOE, YOU’RE FIRED,” the Republican added in a reference to his catchphrase on the reality TV show, The Apprentice.
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Fucking GROAN. Jesus, this country really took a turn for the worse when that washed-up never-was was dusted off and given his own fucking game show for no goddamn reason whatsoever.
He’s not really a businessman. And being a businessman is not an unqualified good, either. And certainly, this asshole being given accolades for being able to parrot that stupid line for decades now like a good little monkeyboy…well, it just shows you this country is not a fucking meritocracy.
Agree on all points. Pretty much the same arc as Reagan - he was an idiot, but people knew who he was from his acting days, and he knew how to talk to a crowd - and his simple demeanor played well with blue collar workers and rural America. Naturally his neocon shit took the world on an awful turn for the worse, opening the door to Trump.
P.s. sorry, it’s my turn to be the ‘Reagans fault’ person. Someone else’s turn next thread
In a related matter, Trump dismissed Colleen Shogan as the archivist of the United States, White House aide Sergio Gor posted on X Friday night.
time to really rewrite history.
the archivist is a pretty significant role, leading the national archives and records administration–what is supposed to be an independent agency of the federal government.
among the archivist’s responsibilities:
- preservation and documentation of government and historical records
- administering public access to those records
- responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations
- transmits votes of the Electoral College to Congress
- examines Electoral College and constitutional amendment ratification documents for prima facie legal sufficiency and an authenticating signature. the archivist is the one to certify that an amendment has been properly ratified.
sed -i ‘s/Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America/g’
sed -i ‘s/Biden/Trump/g’
Buckle up.
Trump is almost entirely an idiot, but somehow is an expert on regex for some reason.
No, but the replacement archivist will almost certainly be an expert at replacement.
Honestly, at this point, he’s probably glad that he won’t have to hear it.
Your friend Obama will give you summaries
Would he even remember them anyway?
Unironically whatever.
