President Donald Trump yanked security clearances for former President Joe Biden, his family, members of his former administration, and others on Friday evening.
The president issued a memo revoking a slew of security clearances from a number of Biden administration officials, as well as people who pushed legal cases and the Russian collusion conspiracy against Trump in recent years.
The memo listed as those who would be effected by the order as “Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, Joseph R. Biden Jr., and any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.”
“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,” the memo says. “I also direct all executive department and agency heads to revoke unescorted access to secure United States Government facilities from these individuals.”
The order specifies that if any of the affected individuals received a security clearance through work with a private entity, that entity should lose its access to protected material, as well.
“This action includes, but is not limited to, receipt of classified briefings, such as the President’s Daily Brief, and access to classified information held by any member of the Intelligence Community by virtue of the named individuals’ previous tenure in the Congress,” the memo states.
NEW: Trump just revoked security clearances and access to secure govt facilities for
-Hillary Clinton
-Kamala Harris
-Joe Biden and his whole family
-And many, many others pic.twitter.com/V1QbmbCCYf— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) March 22, 2025
The move against well over a dozen people comes after Trump in January banned dozens of former intelligence officials from entering government facilities. The officials had previously all endorsed a letter casting doubt on the authenticity of information pulled from Hunter Biden’s laptop, suggesting it was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
“These individuals no longer possess a need to access secure facilities, and as outlined in the Executive Order, do not have the appropriate security clearances to access classified information,” the January memo said.
