Former Justice Department official Jack Goldsmith told NBC in November: ‘This is not something that one could have ever imagined with other presidents, but it’s easy to imagine with this one. He’s shown as president that he doesn’t take secret-keeping terribly seriously.
He has a known tendency to disrespect rules related to national security. And he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him.”
.@PressSec on if former President Trump will continue to have access to intelligence briefings: “It’s something, obviously, that’s under review.” pic.twitter.com/9JffqWGf54
– The Hill (@thehill) February 1, 2021
Secretary Jen Psaki also got asked Monday about whether the administration was benefitting from Trump being kicked off Twitter.
‘This may be hard to believe, we don’t spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about President Trump here — former President Trump, to be very clear,’ she said. ‘I can’t say we miss him on Twitter.’
The Senate is considering retroactive impeachment, which would be the first such case since the 1876 trial of US secretary of war William W. Belknap, who was impeached over accusations of bribery after his resignation.
