Just to be accurate:
The President *runs* the clearance enterprise.
All classification authorities extend from the President and are delegated by him to his authorized subordinates, and so on in turn.
There is, simply stated, no higher authority to deny clearance to any elected President.
I posted that in the thread. That he doesn’t need a clearance, that being President alone is a clearance. But that is a frightening thought that to circumvent our national security, you get a mole.
That begs to question as to whether the military or nsa or cia or fbi will trust him enough to tell him everything. Didn’t this become an issue with the truman admin?