Schiff: No reason why Trump would ever get information briefings again

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett Schiff Sunday previews: Washington prepares for inauguration and impeachment; coronavirus on the rise in the US What Our Kids Need to Know After Capitol Hill Riot Pelosi Names 9 Impeachment Managers MORE (D-Calif.) Said that Sunday President TrumpDonald Trump Facebook Temporarily Bans Ads For Gun Accessories After Capitol Riots Sasse, In Ardent Opinion, Says QAnon Destroys GOP Section 230 That Worked After The Uprising, But Not Before: How To Regulate Social Media MORE may no longer receive daily intelligence briefings and may no longer receive such briefings once he leaves office.

In an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation”, Schiff agreed with calls from Susan Gordon, the former deputy director of Trump’s national intelligence agency, to stop providing Trump with intelligence, given his actions surrounding the riot that the Capitol had. on January 6. .

“There is no circumstance in which this president should receive another intelligence briefing, not now, not in the future. I don’t think he can be trusted with it now, and certainly cannot be trusted in the future,” Schiff said.

The chairman of the intelligence committee further said he thought US allies had begun withholding intelligence from the Trump administration for fear of the president’s ability or willingness to keep such intelligence private, a prospect Schiff said. makes us less safe “.

Gordon, who left the Trump administration in 2019, wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday that President-elect Joe BidenJoe Biden Missouri woman seen with Pelosi sign charged in connection with Capitol riots Facebook temporarily bans ads for gun accessories after Capitol riots Sasse, in ardent opinion, says QAnon GOP is destroying MORE must decide to decline Trump intelligence briefings after Trump leaves the White House.

“My recommendation, as an experienced veteran of the intelligence community for over 30 years, is not to give him any briefings after January 20,” she wrote. “With this simple act – which is the sole prerogative of the new president – Joe Biden can reduce one aspect of the potential national security risk of private citizen Donald Trump.”

Schiff has been a top critic of the president for years and this week joined other Democrats and some Republicans to vote in favor of a historic second impeachment of the president, which is now going to the senate for trial.

Five people died in the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, including a Capitol police officer.

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