Biden says Trump should not receive more information about secret information

Biden says Trump should not receive more information about secret information

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When asked in an interview with the CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell asked if he thought Trump would receive a briefing if he asked for one, Biden said, “I do not think so.”

“I would rather not speculate out loud,” Biden said when asked what he feared Trump would continue to receive the briefings. ‘I just think he does not have to have the intelligence briefings. What value does an intelligence briefing give him? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact that he can slip and say something? ‘

Former presidents have traditionally allowed intelligence to request and receive intelligence sessions.

A senior administration official told CNN earlier that Trump has not yet submitted any requests. There are many ways in which intelligence can be presented, the official said, something that the intelligence community would formulate if requested.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told CNN on Thursday that “the intelligence community supports requests for information by former presidents and will review all incoming requests, as it always has.”
It was not known that Trump read the President’s Daily Letter, the highly classified summary of the country’s secrets, in full or regularly when he was in office. He was instead verbally informed two to three times a week by his intelligence officers, CNN reported.

Former Deputy National Intelligence Director Trump Gordon wrote in a Washington Post essay following the uprising in the US Capitol last month that Trump could be ‘extremely vulnerable to bad actors with bad intentions’ once he is not in office.

Gordon, a more than 30-year-old intelligence veteran, also said in 2019 that one of Trump’s most common responses to intelligence briefings was to question what he was being told.

In the clip of the interview that aired Friday, Biden declined to say whether he would vote to convict Trump in next week’s indictment if he were a senator.

“Look, I ran like hell to defeat him because I thought he was unfit to be president,” Biden said. ‘I watched what everyone saw, what happened when the crew invaded the US Congress. But I’m not in the Senate right now. I will have the Senate decide. ‘

In remarks following the January uprising, Biden told reporters: ‘I’m saying now, more than a year, (Trump’s) is not fit to serve. He is one of the most incompetent presidents in the history of the United States of America. . “

Last week, Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he thinks the indictment should “happen.”

The House of Representatives charged Trump last month on charges of inciting the uprising at the Capitol that left five people dead.

In a preliminary statement filed Tuesday, the management of the House of Commons accuses Trump of having a “single responsibility” for the deadly riots. peaceful transfer of power by preventing Congress from certifying the election.

The House of Commons for indictment on Thursday asked Trump to testify during his indictment for the Senate indictment, but his legal team quickly turned down the invitation.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly characterized the information information former presidents receive.

This story has been updated with additional information.

CNN’s Kevin Liptak, Jim Acosta, Jeremy Herb and Manu Raju contributed to this report.

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