You and many of your repliers are framing this as a “like” thing: it’s not.

The key question is “can you trust this guy?” and he is so clearly not trustable it’s amazing.

Makes them look like the FTX of data processing.

Unlike the other comments here, I think this is a very genuine reason to not give someone security clearance. This has nothing to do with ideology, but does question whether someone is likely to act in way that serves national interests.

Whether or not Karp can be trusted, I don't know, but I thin it's something governments should at least question, and believe most (all?) already do.