Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin called on the GOP to censure President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE for pulling former CIA Director John Brennan John Owen BrennanJournalism or partisanship? The media's mistakes of 2016 continue in 2020 Comey on Clinton tweet: 'I regret only being involved in the 2016 election' Ex-CIA Director Brennan questioned for 8 hours in Durham review of Russia probe MORE’s security clearance.

In her opinion piece, Rubin, a frequent critic of Trump who has also lambasted Republicans in office for doing little to curtail the president, said the GOP should stop “cheerleading” in the face of Trump’s conduct.

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The columnist wrote that Congress should hold oversight hearings over Trump’s decision to revoke Brennan’s security clearance and pass legislation that would spell out the grounds for revoking a security clearance, and the procedure for challenging such a revocation.

"The remedy, therefore, is to replace as many Republicans as possible in November and then vote Trump out in 2020," she wrote.

Her editorial comes the morning after a dozen former top intelligence officials, including former CIA directors William Webster, George Tenet and Porter Goss, declared in a statement supporting Brennan that “security clearances should be based on national security concerns and not political views.”

“No president has so abused his power over security clearances as to warrant such a unified response,” Rubin wrote.

Trump suggested Friday he is likely to continue to revoke security clearances.

On Friday, he said he expected to “very quickly” revoke the security clearance for Justice Department official Bruch Ohr, who he called a “disgrace.”

Ohr has drawn scrutiny from House Republicans as a result of his links to Fusion GPS, the research firm behind a controversial dossier alleging ties between Trump and Moscow.

The firm hired former British spy Christopher Steele to assemble the dossier during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace. I suspect I'll be taking it away very quickly," Trump told reporters on the South Lawn before leaving the White House for New York. “For him to be in the Justice Department and doing what he did, that is a disgrace.”