Laws are for little people. The Hoi Polloi.

Billionaires live by different rules. Didn't Trumpy make that perfectly clear yet?

And Badges? Badges?

Billionaires don't need no stinking badges!

He shouldn't have security clearance unless he is tasked with directly working on some projects that require it.

So says someone who would obviously never qualify for a security clearance.

Security clearances also ensure that individuals are trustworthy, reliable, and loyal to the United States. They also help to ensure that individuals can securely access, manage, and protect classified information.

You are also tested to see if you are honest about your background and whether you have a Criminal history, a history of Drug use, Financial issues or foreign relations/associations and whether you can be blackmailed, etc.

"Were I an elected official though ... "

Yup. Members of Congress are by tradition deemed inherently trustworthy by dint of the offices they hold, although they are subject to punishment under the House ethics code for revealing classified information. The maximum penalty, which would require a two-thirds vote by the House, is expulsion.

Yeah. That's the problem. "Tradition" is no longer adequate. Especially during the rise of the Demagogues.

Alexander Hamilton warned of the danger of demagogues in the very first of the "Federalist Papers."

He said, "history will teach us that ... of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants."