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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced Friday that he will revoke the authorization of security and access to daily intelligence informative meetings of his predecessor in office, Joe Biden.
Biden did the same with Trump four years ago.
“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” the president wrote in a publication of his social truth platform.
“Joe, you are fired,” he added, in reference to the phrase that he popularized years ago at the reality show the apprentice.
The president has already revoked the security authorization of more than 40 former intelligence officials whom he accused of interfering with the 2020 elections in favor of Biden.
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Trump said Friday night that Biden “laid this precedent in 2021, when he ordered the intelligence community that prevented the 45th president of the United States (I!) Accessing details about national security, a courtesy reserved for former presidents “
He said that “one could not trust Biden with sensitive information,” citing an investigation by the Department of Justice on the management of files classified by the Democrat.
The institution decided not to present positions and indicated that Biden had a bad memory, something that the then president rejected.
Since his return to office, Trump has taken measures to revoke the security authorizations and protections of other senior officials linked to the outgoing administration.
In 2021, Biden prevented Trump from receiving classified intelligence reports, being the first time that a former president was denied that type of information that is traditionally offered as courtesy.
He justified the measure with the argument that Trump could not be trusted due to his “erratic behavior”, even before the assault on the United States Capitol of the 2021, for which the Democrats pointed out as an inciter to Trump.
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