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Trump revokes security clearances of Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and other prominent Dems

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President Trump on Friday night rescinded the security clearances of 
former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary 
Clinton, several members of the Biden administration, and other prominent 
Democrats.

The move comes after Mr. Trump had already announced last month that he 
was revoking former President Joe Biden's security clearance. In a memo 
Friday, the president said he was also rescinding the security clearances 
of the entire Biden family.  

Also losing their access to classified information and their security 
clearances were former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former Rep. Adam 
Kinzinger, retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, New York Attorney General 
Letitia James, Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg, former White House 
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, former Rep. Elizabeth Cheney, 
former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill, former Deputy Attorney 
General Lisa Monaco, former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman 
Eisen, and attorney Mark Zaid, who was a lawyer for the whistleblower who 
reported concerns about the Mr. Trump's dealings with Ukraine in his first 
White House term.

Several of those named, including James and Bragg, had already had their 
clearances revoked earlier this month by Director of National Intelligence 
Tulsi Gabbard as part of a purge of dozens of clearances for current and 
former officials.

Friday's memo applies to "receipt of classified briefings, such as the 
President's Daily Brief, and access to classified information held by any 
member of the Intelligence Community by virtue of the named individuals' 
previous tenure in the Congress."

Since taking office in January, the president has revoked the clearances 
of multiple former officials who he claims "weaponized" either the 
intelligence community or the law against him.

Cheney and Kinzinger helped lead the House select committee investigation 
into the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. Bragg brought the New York "hush 
money" criminal case which resulted in a felony conviction for Mr. Trump 
on 34 state counts of falsification of business records.  

James sued Mr. Trump and the Trump organization, accusing them of 
widespread fraud. The lengthy trial resulted in a judge's $453 million 
verdict against Mr. Trump and his former company.   

Those who had previously had their clearances revoked include retired Gen. 
Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the 
Trump and Biden administrations and had a public falling out in the final 
months of Mr. Trump's first term over the photo op in front of St. John's 
Church in June 2020 after federal officers cleared out social justice 
protesters from Lafayette Park so Mr. Trump could walk to the church from 
the White House.

Mr. Trump was also critical of Milley's revelation that he had engaged in 
two phone calls — one on Oct. 30, 2020, and the second on Jan. 8, 2021, 
two days after the Capitol insurrection — with Chinese General Li Zuocheng 
of the People's Liberation Army in order to assure him that the U.S. would 
not launch an attack against China and that the U.S. was stable.

On the day of his inauguration, Mr. Trump revoked the clearances of dozens 
of former intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming that 
emails found on a laptop owned by Biden's son, Hunter, bore the hallmarks 
of a Russian disinformation campaign.

John Bolton, who served as national security adviser during Mr. Trump's 
first term, also had his clearance pulled over a book he penned about his 
time in the role.

The president accused Bolton of publishing sensitive information and said 
the book's publication "created a grave risk that classified material was 
publicly exposed."

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