Why Joe Biden will Deny Trump Intelligence Briefings?

US president Joe Biden does not believe if former president Donald Trump deserves the privileges of access to intelligence briefings. Traditionally, Trump’s predecessors enjoyed the access to intelligence meetings. Biden was responding to an evening interview with CBS screen siren Norah O’Donell after he had been asked whether he would allow Trump to get the briefings.

Biden termed Trump’s behavior as “erratic” due to the incitement to insurrection where a section of Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2020. It was alleged that it was Trump who triggered his supporters to openly denounce electoral outcome and interfere with the session that was meant to certify Biden’s win.

Biden made the statement a week before the beginning of Trump’s second impeachment trial. Democrats-controlled House of Representatives successfully moved an impeachment motion.

Trump made history as the first president in the US history to be impeached twice. He, then, declined to attend the inauguration of his successor. Trump was blocked from both Facebook and Twitter and left White House a dejected man, with wife Melanie hurrying to dress in ‘civilian attire.’

Biden do not trust Trump with classified information and was quoted by the Guardian stating that: “I just think there is no need for him to have access to intelligence briefings. What is the value of giving him intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”

Tit-for-tat is a fare game. When Biden was declared as president-elect, Trump denied him access to intelligent meetings, in what was seen as a move to delay the transition.

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