CNN’s Jennings Cites ‘Long History of Influence Peddling’ as Proof Why Trump Had to Nuke Biden Security Clearances: ‘They Are Willing to Abuse’

CNN’s Scott Jennings said former President Joe Biden and his family were right to be denied access to sensitive information while agreeing with President Donald Trump’s decision to pull security clearances for numerous people Friday.

Jennings told anchor Laura Coates Friday night that the Biden family has a “long history of influence peddling” and too many affiliations with “shady” foreign nationals.

In a memo earlier in the day, Trump said he was pulling clearances from, among others, Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Kamala Harris, Biden, and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.”

“Therefore, I hereby direct every executive department and agency head to take all additional action as necessary and consistent with existing law to revoke any active security clearances held by the aforementioned individuals and to immediately rescind their access to classified information,” Trump added. ” I also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities from these individuals.”

On CNN’s Laura Coates Live, the host asked Jennings if Trump made the decision out of “retribution.” Jennings replied:

I think when it comes to the Bidens, I mean, given the family’s long history of influence peddling and dealings with shady people overseas, I think cutting them off from national security information is frankly a pretty good idea. That’s number one. Number two, some of these people and their affiliates and the people they’re associated with at the upper reaches of the Democratic Party have proven time and again that they are willing to abuse their adjacency to national security information for political purposes.

We all remember the 51 intelligence people who signed the Hunter Biden laptop letter, for instance. And so I think what Donald Trump is doing is sending a strong message. No longer are people like this who float in and out of government going to be able to abuse their national security access for political purposes, and let me just tell you, something that goes around comes around because as [David Sanger] just said, they cut off Donald Trump in 2021.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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