United States: Biden considers Trump too unpredictable and wants to deprive him of intelligence reports
Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States (pictured) finds his predecessor too unpredictable to still benefit from intelligence reports.
REUTERS - KEVIN LAMARQUE
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The US president has made a big confession: He would like his predecessor Donald Trump to no longer have access to intelligence reports.
Yet it is a courteous privilege accorded to all past presidents;
Joe Biden finds that it would not be prudent given the sometimes unpredictable behavior of Donald Trump.
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Carrie Nooten
Too unpredictable to be trusted, that's what Joe Biden told a CBS reporter about Donald Trump, who asked him if the former US president was worthy of receiving the confidential reports from the services. intelligence.
Courtesy
All former presidents still alive, from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, receive certain confidential reports - a practice that has become customary - out of courtesy in case one of the former heads of state wishes to give his advice.
The 46th US president has yet to confirm that he will ban shipments to his predecessor, but if it does, Donald Trump would be the first president to be pulled out of the loop.
Joe Biden has, in any case, hinted that he was concerned that Donald Trump might inadvertently share classified information.
Risks
Comments that reflect the idea shared with other senior officials that Donald Trump can pose risks to national security, and which comes just four days before the start of the second indictment trial of the former president.
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