donald trump is a national-security risk

‘Since 1952, the White House has allowed major-party candidates access to classified intelligence briefings so that they will be current on important issues if they win the election. trump should be denied this courtesy.

…The decision rests, as always, with the sitting president, and Joe Biden is likely to continue this practice so that he will not be accused of “politicizing” access to intelligence. Such accusations need not be taken seriously; they would only be more meaningless noise from a GOP that has already stumbled in a clumsy attempt to impeach Biden after leveling charges of corruption at both him and his son. And although denying trump access to classified briefs would produce squawks and yowls from Republicans, it would also serve as a reminder that trump cannot be trusted with classified information.

The risks of denying trump these early briefings are negligible. As we learned from his presidency, trump is fundamentally unbriefable: He doesn’t listen, and he doesn’t understand complicated national-security matters anyway. The problem with giving trump these briefings, however, isn’t that he’s ignorant. He’s also dangerous, as his record shows.

Indeed, if trump were ga federal employee, he’d have likely already been stripped of his clearances and escorted from the building…’ ( Tom Nichols via The Atlantic )

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