Newsman: President Joe Biden said, He doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings,as because citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.” in an interview with “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell, President Biden told”I just think that there is no need for him to have the — the intelligence briefings. Traditionally former presidents have been allowed to request and receive intelligence briefings.
But, when asked anchor Norah O’Donnell if he thought Trump should receive an intelligence briefing if he requested one, Biden said, “I think not.”
“I’d rather not speculate out loud,” Biden said when asked what he fears could happen if Trump continued to receive the briefings. “I just think that there is no need for him to have the — the intelligence briefings. What? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
A senior administration official previously told CNN that Trump has not submitted any requests at this point. There are many ways intelligence can be presented, the official said, something the intelligence community would formulate should any request come in.
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In the clip of the interview that aired Friday, Biden declined to say if he’d vote to convict Trump in next week’s impeachment trial if he were a senator.
“Look, I ran like hell to defeat him because I thought he was unfit to be president,” Biden said. “I’ve watched what everybody else watched, what happened when that — that crew invaded the United States Congress. But I’m not in the Senate now. I’ll let the Senate make that decision.”Last week, Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he thought the impeachment trial “has to happen.”
The House of Representatives impeached Trump last month on a charge of inciting the insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead.
the House impeachment managers accused Trump of being “singularly responsible” for the deadly riots in a pretrial brief filed Tuesday, saying the former President’s actions spreading false conspiracy theories that the election was stolen incited his supporters to attack the Capitol and try to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power by stopping Congress from certifying the election.
The House impeachment managers on Thursday requested Trump testify at his upcoming Senate impeachment trial, but his legal team quickly rejected the invitation.
