Trump Strips Federal Building Access From NY AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg
Also takes security clearances away from Anthony Blinken and others.
Donald Trump has already revoked Joe Biden’s security clearance and now he is apparently working on a list of others.
Trump appears to be settling scores and has every right to do so. It’s also wise to shut these people out of the system. We all know they cannot be trusted.
It’s important to note that Biden set this precedent.
🚨FUN FACT: Biden actually revoked Trump's security clearance in 2021, citing Trump's "erratic behavior" as justification. The media isn't reporting this and instead is portraying Trump as doing something outrageous, but as usual, Biden set the precedent for the bad behavior.
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) February 9, 2025
The New York Post reports:
Trump stripping the security clearances of numerous antagonists — including NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg
President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists.
Just days after revoking Joe Biden’s access to classified information and secure federal buildings — “because I don’t trust him” — Trump said his new top target is ex-Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who orchestrated the “Dirty 51” letter from former intelligence officials on the eve of the 2020 election.
The infamous missive falsely claimed that Hunter Biden’s laptop, the contents of which The Post revealed, was Russian disinformation.
Blinken’s security clearances will be revoked, following the same presidential directive aimed at Biden and the 51 ex-spooks last week, Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“Bad guy. Take away his passes,” he said of Blinken.
“This is to take away every right they have [revoking security clearances] including they can’t go into [federal] buildings.”
James and Bragg are not alone in this. There’s more.
FOX News reported:
Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Biden’s Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and attorneys Andrew Weissmann, Mark Zaid and Norm Eisen, also had their clearances revoked.
Eisen, an anti-Trump lawyer, also represents anonymous FBI agents suing the Department of Justice to block the public identification of agents who investigated the Jan. 6 riot.
He also worked with House Democrats on Trump’s first impeachment.
The move comes a day after Trump stripped his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, of his security clearance and his access to presidential daily briefs.
“There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Friday night.
He added the precedent was set by Biden himself.
Antony Blinken might be the best one.
BREAKING: Trump just BANNED former Secretary of State Antony Blinken from ALL federal buildings!
OUTSTANDING! pic.twitter.com/qeoON5lIdB
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) February 8, 2025
Blinken severely damaged public and international confidence in US intelligence in 2020 when he played a key role in orchestrating the campaign falsely to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. That merits a pulled security clearance. https://t.co/O9mlBPrsXq
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) February 9, 2025
Don’t you almost want Democrats to complain about this so we can all remind them of how horrible they have been on things like this in recent years?
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When will we hear about special prosecutors being brought to bear on these people? They will be wailing when that happens.
She has only to get U.S. District Court Judge Paul Englemeyer to issue another ex-parte order reinstating her clearance and access.
Funny how Court orders issued by the likes of Englemeyer take on a pseudo religious sacredness for Democrats. Yet they can flagrantly ignore Bruen.
While ANYTHING is possible at the District Court level, there have been a variety of appellate decisions that have held the revocation(or refusal to issue) of a security clearance is non-justiciable. A District Court judge might ignore that binding precedent. But, a Circuit Court won’t, not even the nutty Ninth.
Far as this non-lawyer can see, this is entirely correct. Article II, after all. All security clearances flow directly from the Executive, given to people he trusts to carry out the duties of the Executive. For Bob the Judge to wander into that direct assignment of Article II powers is incomprehensible.
President would easily override that. The presumption is against having special access to information.
The Ex-parte order is not quite as outrageous, but close.
Those are two different issues. Bruen is not a court order. It doesn’t order anyone to do anything. It merely decides a question of law, and is only binding on the lower courts, and on the parties to the specific case.
Legislatures are free to pass purported laws that are inconsistent with such a decision, but the minute such a law is raised in a court, the court must either strike it down or show why it’s consistent with it after all.
Legislatures may even pass again the exact same law that was struck down, and take it back up the appeals chain and try to get the Supreme Court to reconsider. Of course they probably won’t get cert, but they can try.
Court orders are a very different kind of thing. They are binding on the people whom they address, and if you violate them you risk being held in contempt of court.
Paraphrase by Paula:
What goes around comes around.
Yes, but isn’t there a deeper meaning here?
Tell Morticia to go back to the mortuary and put lipstick on Bragg.
Also:
FAFO
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
If you take a shot at the king, you better not miss.
Karma is a Hillary/Pelosi/Kamala
What satisfies my soul is that we have spent two decades in oppressive regimes, demoralized by the knowledge that whatever offenses and actual crimes the left committed, there would be never be any consequences to them.
Trump is finally bringing the consequences.
He is satisfying what our innate sense of justice has been craving for over that entire period. That is what is best in life, friend Conan. The lamentation of their harpies is just hot fudge on top.
Things appear to be moving that way, but let’s not go chicken counting yet…
How about the ones that’s already hatched?
They were probably ducks
“The lamentation of their harpies is just hot fudge on top”
What’s the cherry?
Convictions.
Losing security clearance, while justified, isn’t much of a consequence. It would be better to see some of these people perp walked in front of the cameras on their way in for an arraignment where they are denied bail.
We’re not there yet!
Oh, I agree with this fully. However, under Obama and Biden, and shamefully even under Trump 1.0, we
never even saw anyone bothering to dole out the minor but well-deserved socially embarrassing ignominies that Trump is now spinning out left and right like a Vegas poker dealer. And he’s not done yet. He’s just staying inside the OODA loop of his opponents until the haymakers are ready to launch. Trump has had Monte Cristo-class time to choose the targets he’s going to polarize and freeze.
Second rule of politics: Reward your friends, and punish your enemies.
HAHHAAH. You redhat culters can stop hyperventilating. Nothing is going to happen to these prosecutors. Just more red meat for his rube base. For one thing -it will just re-dredge up what a lying scumbag ‘the moron’ is. Hey maybe his pathetic ‘ wife’ will want to publicly humiliated AGAIN, hearing how her sleazy husband effed a pornstar while she was pregnant. LOL
Or we can hear -AGAIN-how ‘the moron’ conducts business by fraud.So presidential!!! HAHAHAHAH
What time does your mom bring your Pop tarts and chocolate milk down to you in the basement?
Cope snd seethe, loser.
Note to Moderators:
This crap has gone on long enough.
3 frauds, sexual assault, libel. 34 felonies-guilty. I know you fell this con man’s BS , but grounded people haven’t. The fact that you want all crtics silenced says a lot about you , Paula. You’re like a little kid who is told there really is no Santa.
You’re not a “critic.” You’re a pathetic lying shill.
what lies have I told? Please list?
Moderators: It is time for you to step in and stop this crap.
what lies have I told? Please list?
“3 frauds, sexual assault, libel. 34 felonies”
The kangaroos can’t make lies truth –no mater how much you cream it.
Let’s say that’s all true. The voters still picked him to be your President!
What’s that say about how bad Joe and Kamala are?
“…this con man…”
You DO mean “your duly elected President,” amirite?
Hahahaha! He’s your President and there’s nothing you can do to change it. So sit back and enjoy!
When you insult people, no one listens. It is a waste of time. Go find Ragspierre and have a couple beers. Bless your heart.
Shut up, Johnny.
Here’s a simple suggestion. There are many joint Federal/Local/State Law.Enforcement Task Forces. The Feds usually deputize local/State LEO as US Marshall. Instead deputize them as ICE to give them the cloak of Federal Authority. The States,.Counties and Municipalities which refuse ICE cooperation will be shut out of Joint TF. Same with future LEO grants, require cooperation with ICE. Let the ‘resistance’ decide how high a price.they want to pay. Put the ICE efforts in cooperative jurisdictions to clean them out of illegal aliens. That likely pushes more illegal aliens into blue ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions and their political leaders will be getting an ear full from their constituents. Once the more cooperative jurisdictions are cleaned out go after the ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions will every agent they have one area at a time.
Actions, meet Consequences. You’re not going to like them, lady.
James and Bragg may eventually be allowed into federal buildings as hires for maid and janitorial services…. might not be fully qualified but here’s their chance to “clean up”.
I hope none of them have their mail delivered to PO Boxes.
Why do these people keep security clearances? I only had a security clearance when I was working at defense contractors. It was still “active” for a while so I could switch jobs without a new investigation, but I only had access to classified information with a need-to-know.
What is these people’s need-to-know? They are out of government. Maybe we extend a special courtesy to ex-presidents, until Biden proved himself unworthy of it, but anyone else? Blinken doesn’t work for the government. What classified information would he need to know?
Oh I guess it’s so he can go get another job too. So Trump’s cutting off his MONEY. A fine idea.
Likewise, my secret clearance was no longer valid after my USAF discharge but was reinstated when I joined the AirNG two years later. Didn’t have it when I didn’t need it. Neither should they, I don’t care who they are.
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Love the quote under the Letitia photo about “the days of Donald Trump coming to an end.”
When she has finally gotten reduced to a stain on the courthouse floor, it will go in my scrapbook, right next to my photo of Harvey Weinstein captioned “The NRA are going to wish they weren’t alive after I’m done with them.”
Since when do you need a security clearance to get into federal buildings?! Even secure ones, not just post offices; since when do you need a clearance?
Also, I get why James had a clearance, because as AG she probably deals with cases that involve classified information, but why would Bragg have ever had one?
The ban on entering federal buildings is an Executive Order. For the James it prevents her from personally arguing cases in Federal Court, same for Bragg. For others it prevents them from seeing their buddies in various agencies to get the lowdown from insiders while inside. Now if their fellow travelers reveal classified info outside and are caught it’s a major felony. And with the President sidelining / slashing the Federal workforce there is less and less opportunity for these cronies to stay “in the know”. No classified info, no cachet to sell on the Sunday shows, cnn, msdnc, etc.
I doubt the president has the power to control access to courtrooms. That would seem to violate the separation of powers.
Especially if he tries to exclude a party to a case that’s before that court; and even more so if the USA is an opposing party.
This reminds me of the old graffiti standard:
God is dead! Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. God
Milhouse – I agree with you, but I actually suspect it’s a bit of silly spiteful tit-for-tat.
Just like the show trials that James and Bragg brought against Trump, ultimately this executive order will not stand. However, it will have to be challenged in court via the appeals process, and I doubt it’s going to get a priority path to a hearing from the Supreme Court.
So, yeah ULTIMATELY , Hell No he can’t do that, but it is fun to see them get a tiny taste of their own lawfare.
Yeah, but it won’t go up to SCOTUS. The first time she wants to appear in a case to which the State of NY is a party, she will show up, and if she’s not allowed in the judge will simply order her to be admitted. The court staff at the door will obey the judge, not the President.