President Joe Biden said in an interview Friday he doesn\u2019t think Donald Trump should receive intelligence briefings, a privilege typically afforded to former presidents, because of his \u201cerratic behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings. 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?\u201d Biden asked on \u201cCBS Evening News With Norah O\u2019Donnell.\u201d<\/p>\n
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that Biden\u2019s administration was \u201cobviously\u201d reviewing whether to continue extending the courtesy to Trump, whose supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol last month. The former president also has a history of revealing classified information and has a friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, critics have warned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s likely Trump won\u2019t miss the intelligence reports. While in office, he reportedly rarely read them and instead turned to his confidants and conservative media as sources of information. A senior administration official told CNN that Trump has not yet made any requests for intelligence briefings since leaving office.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Biden said in his interview Friday that he\u2019d \u201crather not speculate\u201d on the worst possible outcomes of Trump receiving the briefings. He added that he stands by past criticisms that his predecessor is \u201creckless\u201d and an \u201cexistential threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president also declined to say whether he\u2019d vote to convict Trump in the upcoming impeachment trial if he were still a senator.<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I ran like hell to defeat him because I thought he was unfit to be president,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI\u2019ve watched what everybody else watched, what happened when that \u2015 that crew invaded the United States Congress. But I\u2019m not in the Senate now. I\u2019ll let the Senate make that decision.\u201d<\/p>\n