Trump Revokes Joe Biden’s Security Clearance, Bars Him From Intelligence Briefings

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Feb. 7 announced that he was revoking former President Joe Biden’s security clearance and stopping his access to daily intelligence briefings, an entitlement of most former presidents. Biden, when he took office in 2021, revoked Trump’s access to classified information and daily intelligence briefings, citing the events of Jan. 6, 2021—where Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol and disrupted the certification of the Electoral College vote, for which Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives and later acquitted by the Senate—as his reason. Trump announced his decision in a social media post on Truth Social, citing Biden’s previous action as well as the report by Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated the alleged mishandling of classified information by Biden and issued a report in 2024....