华盛顿——总统乔·拜登星期五说唐纳德·特朗普美国的“古怪行为”应该会阻止他接受机密情报简报，这是历史上给予卸任总统的礼遇。
在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，当被问及他担心特朗普是否会继续收到简报时，拜登说，他不想“大声猜测”，但他明确表示，他不希望特朗普继续收到简报。
拜登说:“我只是认为他没有必要听取情报简报。”。“给他做情报简报有什么价值？他到底有什么影响，除了他可能会失言说点什么？”
白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)本周早些时候表示，向特朗普提供情报简报的问题“正在审查中”。
一些民主党议员，甚至一些前特朗普政府官员，质疑允许特朗普继续接受简报的明智性。
苏珊·戈登(Susan Gordon)在上个月的《华盛顿邮报》(Washington Post)专栏文章中敦促拜登与特朗普断绝关系。她曾在2017年至2019年特朗普政府期间担任国家情报局首席副局长。
“他在白宫后的“安全形象”，专业人士喜欢这样称呼，令人生畏，”戈登在一群支持特朗普的暴徒包围美国国会大厦几天后写道，当时立法者试图证明他在去年11月的选举中失败选举。“从定义上讲，任何前总统都是一个目标，都会带来一些风险。但即使在上周的事件发生之前，前总统特朗普也可能异常容易受到怀有恶意的坏演员的攻击。”
是否给前任总统做情报简报完全是现任官员的特权。拜登表示，他反对让特朗普获得简报，因为前总统的第二次弹劾审判将于下周开始。
然而，拜登周五表示，他之所以犹豫让特朗普参加简报会，是因为这位前总统“与叛乱无关的古怪行为”。
戈登还对特朗普的商业纠葛表示担忧。这位房地产大亨在华盛顿的四年里看到了他的企业创始人，并被巨额债务压得喘不过气来，据报道，债务约为4亿美元。特朗普在竞选期间称他的债务负担是“花生”，并表示他不欠俄罗斯任何钱。
“特朗普有涉及外国实体的重大商业纠纷，”戈登写道。“许多目前的商业关系都位于世界上容易受到其他民族国家情报部门攻击的地区。”
众议院情报委员会主席、众议员亚当·希夫(Adam Schiff)也敦促拜登停止为特朗普举行简报会。
“在任何情况下，这位总统都不应该再得到一次情报简报，”希夫在上个月特朗普结束任期前不久表示。“我认为他现在和将来都不可信。”
Biden says 'erratic' Trump shouldn't get intel briefings
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden said Friday that Donald Trump’s “erratic behavior” should prevent him from receiving classified intelligence briefings, a courtesy that historically has been granted to outgoing presidents.
Asked in an interview with CBS News what he feared if Trump continued to receive the briefings, Biden said he did not want to “speculate out loud” but made clear he did not want Trump to continue getting them.
“I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings,” Biden said. “What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this week that the issue of granting Trump intelligence briefings was “something that is under review.”
Some Democratic lawmakers, and even some former Trump administration officials, have questioned the wisdom of allowing Trump to continue to be briefed.
Susan Gordon, who served as the principal deputy director of national intelligence during the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019, in a Washington Post op-ed last month urged Biden to cut off Trump.
“His post-White House ‘security profile,’ as the professionals like to call it, is daunting,” Gordon wrote days after a pro-Trump mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers sought to certify his defeat in last November’s election. “Any former president is by definition a target and presents some risks. But a former president Trump, even before the events of last week, might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent.”
Whether to give a past president intelligence briefings is solely the current officeholder’s prerogative. Biden voiced his opposition to giving Trump access to briefings as the former president's second impeachment trial is set to begin next week.
Biden, however, said Friday that his hesitance to allow Trump access to the briefing was due to the former president’s “erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.”
Gordon also raised concerns about Trump’s business entanglements. The real estate tycoon saw his business founder during his four years in Washington and is weighed down by significant debt, reportedly about $400 million. Trump during the campaign called his debt load a “peanut” and said he did not owe any money to Russia.
“Trump has significant business entanglements that involve foreign entities,” Gordon wrote. “Many of these current business relationships are in parts of the world that are vulnerable to intelligence services from other nation-states.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, also urged Biden to cut off briefings for Trump.
“There’s no circumstance in which this president should get another intelligence briefing,” Schiff said shortly before Trump ended his term last month. “I don’t think he can be trusted with it now, and in the future.”
