If they must give Trump an intelligence briefing, make it verbal only, in private.

[brewens]

Let him try and do something with that. He won't pay attention or understand most of it anyway. Absolutely no documents, hard copy or digital. Then hopefully certain agencies are doing their jobs and monitoring his communications. He'll get caught if he tries to sell any info.

[Xipe Totec]

1. No need. He trusts the KGB more than our intelligence. Let him get his intelligence there. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

2. Or feed him false information.

And then see if that information is leaked.

[Lucky Luciano]

3. That's my take as well.

[sop]

5. Assume whatever classified information provided to Trump will be leaked or sold,

then feed him made up stuff to manipulate Putin.

[bamagal62]

11. This!

[thinkingagain]

19. That's exactly what

I’ve been thinking

[LuvNewcastle]

4. I've read that it's up to the President

to decide whether a former President gets the briefing. I don't see Joe Biden letting Trump get it. Trump will get the bare minimum the law requires from Biden, which is quite enough.

[brewens]

9. I would imagine your stock as an ex president is higher if you get those briefings.

Not that they blab, but you could easily presume a former president would be relying on those briefings if advising or making deals of any kind.

[LuvNewcastle]

17. Yeah, you're right.

I never thought about it until all of this shit with Trump. It’s scary how close we came to oblivion with him. So completely untrustworthy and malevolent.

[Deuxcents]

6. No!

Just cut him off. Period.

[RainCaster]

7. He can get all his info from Faux News

Trump and intelligence are mutually exclusionary terms. He has burned every bridge with our country and he should be in prison for what he has done.

[TreasonousBastard]

8. The former Prez gets briefings because he might have insights, or even suggestions...

In this case, however, nothing that guy would have to say would be worth squat.

[tonedevil]

10. Putin:

What did they tell you in the briefing comrade donald?
donald: Person, woman, man, camera, tv

[bamagal62]

12. Chuckle

[My Pet Orangutan]

13. Intelligence brief No 1.

Vladimir Putin hates you.

[brewens]

14. If he makes a big stink about not getting the briefings, hilarity ensues! I hope they cut him

off and he's on somewhere blubbering about it for everyone to see. He'll get all kinds of shit about never making use of those briefings as president.

[RockRaven]

15. And make it long, detailed, boring, and entirely composed of stuff he doesn't care about or

understand... Eventually (quickly) he'll refuse to take the briefing, as is his right.

[Drahthaardogs]

16. Give him a fake one and see if the chatter

Comes back

[msfiddlestix]

18. Someone saying Biden "Must" give Intelligence briefing?

I heard Biden say it's up to his discretion, and there are reasons not to give it to him. When pressed why he feels that way, he didn't want to "speculate out loud" and that he saw no reason why he needs them.

In other words, what Biden can't say out loud, he can certainly say in legal documents or to a court if necessary. With Intelligence Back Up.

Are there "people" saying that he has to regardless?

[struggle4progress]

20. Auction of Plaza implosion packages raises more than $16,000

Michelle Brunetti Post
Feb 3, 2021

ATLANTIC CITY — An auction house sold 10 packages that included 2 VIP tickets to view the Feb. 17 implosion of the former Trump Plaza casino, along with overnight stays and dinners, for a total of $6,375 in a live auction ...

The auction was run by .. the same firm that would have auctioned off the right to push the implosion button on the Plaza. That plan was scrapped when building owner Carl Icahn objected, citing safety concerns.

But Icahn agreed to donate $175,000 to the Boys & Girls Club, to match the highest bid received as of the day before the original auction ended ...

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/bodnars-auction-of-10-trump-implosion-packages-raises-6-000-for-charity/article_afbeb893-c493-501e-9c25-4f1c280f5383.html

[flotsam]

21. Time for a "SONGBIRD" sting

Used in old spy novels. You only print say 25-50 copies of the daily brief, so a single minor detail in an unimportant portion is altered-say describing a person clothing you change colors or style etc. so each copy is unique. Then if the information is compromised you have a record of which person got the briefing with that particular detail. In technical details you can easily change the decimal values in a number with 3 decimal places without materially altering the meaning. Lotsa ways to plant tell-tales.