Trump Removes Security Clearances for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton | National Review

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information," Trump said in a memo.
45% : Bragg prosecuted Trump on 34 felonies in Manhattan for falsifying business records in connection to reimbursements he paid attorney and fixer Michael Cohen for his hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
36% : Many those figures participated in political and legal scandals against Trump during his first term and the four years between his two terms.
28% : Along the way, Trump survived two assassination attempts and easily won a GOP primary against a large field of competitors.
27% : In mounting a historic political comeback, Trump ran again in the 2024 presidential election, decisively defeating Harris after she replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee over the summer after Biden's mental decline became readily apparent in the first presidential debate.
26% : After his 2024 election victory, Trump was sentenced to an unconditional discharge in the hush-money case, meaning no punishment for the felony charges.
22% : Trump moved Friday to revoke security clearances from former President Joe Biden, members of the Biden family, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other partisan political opponents.
18% : Those scandals include Trump's first impeachment, the House January 6th Committee's investigation into the Capitol riot, and the criminal and civil cases against Trump in New York.
16% : Trump remains in denial about the 2020 election results and helped provoke the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot by a group of his supporters who thought the election was stolen.
11% : Trump defeated Clinton in the 2016 presidential election in a shocking upset that remains an enormously consequential event for U.S. and global politics.
10% : Although Cheney and Kinzger were once Republican lawmakers, both endorsed Harris's 2024 campaign as they have evolved into partisan opponents of Trump.
7% : Four years later, Trump lost to Biden amid the Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter riots that characterized a tumultuous summer to close out Trump's often chaotic term.

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