Trump cancels the security clearance of Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton

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US President Donald Trump has canceled security permits for Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, his former White House competitors, expanding his campaign against revenge against political opponents.

Trump announced on Friday night that the former vice president, the first lady and the former foreign minister, will be included in the list of individuals who want to strip him from obtaining sensitive government information. Clinton was defeated in the 2016 presidential elections and Harris in 2024.

The Trump list also included Fiona Hill, a Russian expert who criticized his position on the war in Ukraine during his first term in his position and recently, as he sought to mediate the settlement of the conflict.

“I decided that he was no longer a national reformer for the following individuals to access the classified information,” Trump wrote in a note of government agencies.

Trump was I really included Joe Biden In the list of people who must be deprived of security permits, along with some of the former president’s assistants including Jake Sullivan, former National Security Adviser, and Anthony Blinken, former Foreign Minister.

Trump moves to the extent to which he uses the first months of his second presidency to target political enemies. This includes the Democrats and Republicans who opposed his return to office, such as Liz Cheney, a former Wyoming conference, who was also stripped of its security permits.

Trump also targeted two thousand Prague, the lawyer for Manhattan County, and Lietete James, the Prosecutor of the State of New York, after they brought legal cases against him, including those that led to his conviction for falsifying business records last year.

The abolition of security permits for former officials and political enemies is the latest example that Trump begins in the standards of American democracy, including the idea that political critics of the president may need access to sensitive information.

This step comes amid wider fears that Trump is testing the limits of his constitutional powers in his efforts to deport and detain some immigrants, as well as his comprehensive engine to the intestine of the federal government with collective shootings and spending.