Scott Jennings of CNN just lately appeared on the Laura Coates present and defined why Trump was proper to revoke the security clearances of the Biden family, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats.
Jennings appropriately factors out that these folks repeatedly abused their adjacency to nationwide safety with the intention to use it to go after Trump politically.
For example, Jennings mentions the ’51 intel consultants’ who signed a bogus letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was Russian disinformation.
He additionally means that there are too many individuals in Washington who’ve one of these clearance anyway.
Partial transcript through Mediaite:
I believe in relation to the Bidens, I imply, given the household’s lengthy historical past of affect peddling and dealings with shady folks abroad, I believe chopping them off from nationwide safety data is frankly a fairly good thought.
That’s primary. Quantity two, a few of these folks and their associates and the folks they’re related to on the higher reaches of the Democratic Celebration have confirmed repeatedly that they’re prepared to abuse their adjacency to nationwide safety data for political functions.
All of us bear in mind the 51 intelligence individuals who signed the Hunter Biden laptop computer letter, as an illustration. And so I believe what Donald Trump is doing is sending a powerful message. Not are folks like this who float out and in of presidency going to have the ability to abuse their nationwide safety entry for political functions, and let me simply inform you, one thing that goes round comes round as a result of as [David Sanger] simply mentioned, they minimize off Donald Trump in 2021.
Watch the clip, that is nice:
Reacting to the information of Trump canceling safety clearances for Democrats & the Biden household. Good transfer given the lengthy historical past of Biden household affect peddling to shady abroad characters and in locations like China. pic.twitter.com/GcUUrinKeK
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 22, 2025
The Democrats set the precedents for all of this. They don’t get to complain now after abusing the system for years to go after Trump.
