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WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump is now receiving intelligence briefings ahead of his Jan. 20 inauguration, the Washington Post and NBC News reported Tuesday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.
Trump’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, said it would be a mistake to provide intelligence briefings to the former president. “No prior presidential candidate has ever been ...
Intelligence officials held the briefing at the request of the Trump campaign, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, added that the information presented to the campaign did not include any suggestion of a new threat against Trump and some of the information that was ...
This article is a list of United States presidential candidates. The first U.S. presidential election was held in 1788–1789, followed by the second in 1792. Presidential elections have been held every four years thereafter. Presidential candidates win the election by winning a majority of the electoral vote.
For decades, President-elects have been allowed to receive sensitive national security briefings by the country’s intelligence services well before Inauguration Day.
Excerpt from the declassified copy of the President's Daily Brief, dated August 6, 2001. The President's Daily Brief, sometimes referred to as the President's Daily Briefing or the President's Daily Bulletin, is a top-secret document produced and given each morning to the president of the United States; it is also distributed to a small number of top-level US officials who are approved by the ...
The important message would have been, 'Once you're not the president anymore, all the rules apply to you'". [27] At the beginning of his term in office, President Joe Biden barred Trump from receiving the courtesy intelligence briefings traditionally given to former presidents, citing Trump's "erratic behavior". This is the first time a former ...