Ex-national security adviser H.R. McMaster talked President Trump out of blocking former President Barack Obama’s access to intelligence briefings last year, according to a report Monday.

Around March 2017, when Trump accused his predecessor, without evidence, of wiretapping Trump Tower, some of his associates in the White House were pushing their boss to pull the security clearances of Obama administration officials they saw as political rivals.

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