For the media and democrats still reeling because President Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do, the constant influx of news relating a never ending stream of the most recent ‘wins’ by the Trump administration has to be getting unbearable at this point.
For me… this is news writing heaven! Every bit of newly discovered bad news we didn’t already know about the Biden administration’s failures is accentuated by the good news — because President Trump is addressing all of it!
And here’s another victory for the Constitution, privacy, and national security.
President Trump just took fresh action to curtain the danger presented by the now infamous 51 former intelligence officials who recently had their security clearances revoked.
Now, the likes of John Brennan, Leon Panetta, James Clapper, and John Bolton are hereby BANNED from unescorted access to any federal government building or facility!
🚨BREAKING: Trump DROPS THE HAMMER, bans former CIA Director John Brennan from ALL federal buildings. pic.twitter.com/VmXTpslqaV
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) January 31, 2025
The initial news was that Brennan had been banned.
But it quickly became clear that all 51 of the former intelligence officials who liked about the Biden laptop and rubber stamped the “Russian disinformation” cover story to help Biden and hurt Trump in the 2020 election would be losing their privileges.
Trump just banned the 51 intel agents who lied about Biden's laptop from entering all federal buildings pic.twitter.com/xEkMUgk7iP
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 31, 2025
The Jan. 29th memorandum expanding the day-one Executive Order revoking their security clearances orders their immediate ban from federal buildings without an escort, according to a report in the Daily Wire:
President Donald Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden’s laptop was “part of a Russian disinformation campaign,” instructing agencies to also ban those individuals from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.
The Jan. 29 cabinet memorandum, first obtained by The Daily Wire, expands Trump’s day-one executive order, which revoked the security clearance for the 50 individuals. Sent “on behalf of the President,” it orders the country’s top national security agencies to “revoke unescorted access to secure U.S. Government facilities from the 50 former intelligence officials named in the Executive Order.”
“These individuals no longer possess a need to access secure facilities, and as outlined in the Executive Order, do not have the appropriate security clearances to access classified information,” the memo states.
Included in the list of individuals are prominent members of the intelligence community, including former CIA directors John Brennan, Michael Hayden, and Leon Panetta, who also at one time served as Secretary of Defense. It also includes the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and John Bolton, the longtime diplomat who most recently served under Trump as his national security advisor.
The memo was sent to the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. It was also distributed to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, who is tasked with informing any other “clearance-granting U.S. Government entity” of the ban “to ensure compliance.”
The action comes as part of the Trump administration’s effort to weed out government officials who participated in political weaponization of their power. His initial executive order charged that “the signatories willfully weaponized the gravitas of the Intelligence Community to manipulate the political process and undermine our democratic institutions.”
You can read the entire memorandum here: Cabinet Memo 1-29-2025
As I researched this story I was reminded that Biden pardoned basically everyone and the kitchen sink — but not Brennan.
Trump just banned Brennan from all federal buildings along with the other 51 intel officers
Brennan was not issued a pardon by Biden
Raise your hand ✋️ if you want Trump to instruct AG Bondi to go after John Brennan for his role in the Russia Collusion 👇 hoax pic.twitter.com/LCXK4B1t7e
— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) January 31, 2025
That man was instrumental at every stage working against President Trump at the behest of his enemies in the Deep State and power elites of the democratic party.
The conspiracy theorist in my can’t help but wonder — was he intentionally not pardoned, even though he would obviously stand under the threat of repercussions for his known role in the lawfare and smear campaigns against President Trump?
Was he not pardoned in an attempt to avoid highlight him as a threat to President Trump during his current term?
Was he simply supposed to take the fiery verbal darts, all the while maintaining enough clearance and accessibility to information that could be used to once again weaponize the systems against President Trump during his current term?
Maybe. But if so, President Trump just proved his instincts and intelligence worthy of the presidency.
If that wasn’t intentional, he just revealed his character, ability to keep promises, and calculating shrewdness.
It’s hard to burn the place down on the way out… if you don’t have access.
- Former intel agents lose security clearance.
- Current Office of Personnel gets locked out of personal files of federal employees.
- Former FBI agents with questionable (or confirmed) character flaws proving they will carry out unconstitutional, corrupt, and immoral investigations are ‘purged’ from the Agency.
- Those same intel agents get banned from all federal buildings.
I’m seeing a pattern here with one key point: mitigate the fallout of your bold actions before you take them.
It seems that President Trump is highly focused on that line of thinking right now — no reason to take one step forward just to take 3 steps back because of the usual pushback or fallout.
And for all practical purposes, it seems to be working!
While many President-Elects would have sat back or hit the coast button for a few months waiting on the inauguration, President Trump did something to a degree that no President has ever done before him.
It is now obvious that his team had every day plotted and planned for… months? Years?
By the time he took the oath, his administration was already in full swing from the very first moment.
As such, his enemies don’t have time to react until he’s on to the next thing, and the next, and the one after that.
Wisdom says don’t leave the snakes in the hen house once they reveal themselves to you.
Experience says mitigate their likely next move after you kick them out of the hen house.
President Trump had wisdom the first go-around, but now he has the experience to neutralize the secondary threat before it ever happens; not just the initial threat.
Tired of winning yet? Nope — me, either.
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