White House says Biden will NOT have final say on whether Trump can receive intelligence briefings

The White House has said Joe Biden will not have the final say on whether Donald Trump can receive intelligence briefings after the president said his predecessor’s ‘erratic behavior’ means ‘he might slip and say something’.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki poured cold water on what had appeared to be Biden taking the unprecedented step to deny Trump access to classified information now he has left office. 

Psaki said in a statement Saturday the president was merely ‘expressing his concern’ and will leave the final decision to his intelligence team. 

‘The president was expressing his concern about former president Trump receiving access to sensitive intelligence, but he also has deep trust in his own intelligence team to make a determination about how to provide intelligence information if at any point the former president Trump requests a briefing,’ Psaki said, according to the Washington Post. 

It is not clear when a final decision on the matter will be reached.   

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has not commented on the decision and did not immediately return DailyMail.com’s request for comment. 

The White House has said Joe Biden will not have the final say on whether Donald Trump can receive intelligence briefings after the president said his predecessor’s ‘erratic behavior’ means ‘he might slip and say something’

The walkback from the Oval Office came after Biden said in an interview with CBS Evening News Friday night he did not think Trump should receive intelligence briefings citing the ex-president’s ‘erratic behavior’. 

‘I think not,’ he said. When asked why, Biden said: ‘Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection.’

Biden said he would ‘rather not speculate out loud’ what his worst fear is if Trump is given access to the highly sensitive information but said there is ‘no need’ for him to be involved now he has left office.

‘I would rather not speculate out loud. I just think there is no need for him…