Scott Jennings, on CNN, endorsed former President Donald Trump's move to revoke security clearances from Joe Biden and his family, claiming they have a troubling history of influence peddling. Jennings argues that the Biden family's connections to questionable foreign figures warrant restricted access to sensitive information. He expresses that this decision sends a crucial message regarding the potential misuse of national security by political figures, referencing past incidents where intelligence was allegedly weaponized for political gain. Trump's memo specifies the individuals losing their clearances, which reflects broader political tensions surrounding access to national security information.
I think when it comes to the Bidens, I mean, given the family's long history of influence peddling and dealings with shady people overseas, I think cutting them off from national security information is frankly a pretty good idea.
Some of these people and their affiliates and the people they're associated with at the upper reaches of the Democratic Party have proven time and again that they are willing to abuse their adjacency to national security information for political purposes.
I think what Donald Trump is doing is sending a strong message. No longer are people like this who float in and out of government going to be able to abuse their national security access.
In a memo earlier in the day, Trump said he was pulling clearances from, among others, Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris, Biden, and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s family.
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