Ex-NSC adviser trolls Trump on MSNBC over security clearance screw-up
Donald Trump was taunted by former NSC adviser Alexander Vindman on Saturday morning after the president made a big show of revoking his security clearance late Friday night.
As the retired U.S. Army officer pointed out, he hasn't had a security clearance for five years and the president failed to do his homework.
Invited on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Vindman, who blew the whistle on Trump for trying to blackmail Ukraine's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky in 2019, was asked about a White House meme issued on Friday where proclaimed: "I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information: 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."
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Asked by host Symoine Sanders Townsend to respond, the former Trump NSC advisor smirked and replied, "I'm not a weak-kneed billionaire that could be bullied around. I'm not a massive D.C. law firm with nearly unlimited resources that could be brought to heel by some empty threats."
"I haven't had an active security clearance for five years," he laughed and then joked, "And guess what? I revoke the president's revocation. I reinstate my security clearance, and, you know, it's meaningless."
"I mean, it's noise, it's Friday night theater is what we're seeing here because they're running out of, like, you know, really cool plays," he added. So now they're going, digging deep and it's pretty absurd where they're headed and, frankly, I don't care. This is not something that I'm gonna lose sleep over, frankly."
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