CNN: Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, and Others

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WHITFIELD: “And so Elena, you know, the president is also revoking security clearances now for some of his political rivals. Tell us about that.”

TREENE: “Right. Late last night the president issued a memo directing federal agencies to revoke the security clearances for several of his political allies. A dozen, I should say. And that includes former vice president Kamala Harris, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, but then also a former Republican congressman, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger, both, of course, who served on the house committee that investigated the president‘s role in January 6th. Now, this is the reasoning that president Donald Trump issued for doing this. He said, quote, he argued it was no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information. But look, fred, this move is really the latest attempt by the president to revoke the clearances of his political enemies. And we saw him in February say that he wanted to revoke the clearance of former President Joe Biden yesterday in this move. It was really formalizing that. But we‘ve also seen him take similar efforts to revoke the clearances of law firms that investigated him over the past four years. So this is just an escalation of really that rhetoric of him in some way—“