'He's losing!' Lawyer at center of Trump legal fight scoffs as security clearance stripped

Attorney Norm Eisen, who served as White House ethics czar under former President Barack Obama and is at the center of multiple lawsuits challenging Donald Trump, scoffed at the president pulling his security clearance for "the third time" — and chalked it up to retaliation for Trump losing a string of lawsuits since he took office.

CNN's Kate Bolduan introduced Eisen Monday, saying, "The president moved to revoke security clearances of another round of high profile people, including the Biden family, Kamala Harris, the former secretary of state Tony Blinken — and you, Norm. What was your reaction when you heard about this?"

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"Kate, this is the third time that Trump and his people have revoked my security clearance," Eisen said with a laugh. "They announced it several weeks ago, then they announced it again, then they did it on Thursday. You have to wonder, are they — is Trump, like, taking my security clearance away and then turning it back on so he can take it away again?"

Eisen then offered an explanation for Trump's actions.

"The reason he's doing it is because he's losing!" Eisen said. "We filed or helped on more than two dozen lawsuits against Donald Trump at my organization, State Democracy Defenders Fund. We've had a series of big wins protecting 6,000 FBI agents from being targeted by him. Getting 20,000 federal employees who were wrongly fired, rehired. We just got DOGE and Musk declared unconstitutional for the work that they did tearing down USAID. Many, many more things.

"It's petty retaliation. He'll probably take it away a fourth time this week. I couldn't care less. I'm just going to sue him even more."

Watch the clip below via CNN.