Trump reportedly plans to yank more security clearances to distract from negative news cycles
Get the Full StoryEvan Vucci APWhite House officials are reportedly planning on holding onto more prepared security clearance revocations, and selectively releasing them as a distraction to negative news cycles, as needed.
In a newly released memoir, former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman made some startling allegations about her White House tenure, including alleging that she heard Trump say the N-word in an audio recording.
One day later, the White House announced it revoked former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance.
As President Donald Trump expressed interest in revoking "most, if not all" of the security clearances for a select group of current and former government officials, White House communication officials are believed to be planning on releasing them selectively, as a distraction to negative news cycles, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
White House staffers, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and deputy chief of staff Bill Shine, reportedly discussed timing the revocations so that it would divert attention away from unflattering stories about Trump and his administration, one senior White House official told The Post.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: A North Korean defector's harrowing story of escapeSee Also:Trump aides fear that Omarosa has as many as 200 recordings that they will appear onTrump is reportedly trying to go scorched earth on his move to revoke security clearances'You have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children': Navy SEAL who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid rebukes TrumpSEE ALSO: Trump is reportedly trying to go scorched earth on his move to revoke security clearances
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