Guilty verdict will likely not affect plans for intel briefings for Trump

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14. The President doesn't actually have a clearance. The job is all the authorization they need.

Presidents don't go through any of the processes to receive a formal clearance and they never receive one; the theory is that since almost all classification is done by the order of the President, not by law (except for some nuclear weapons stuff), the sitting President has absolute authority to deal with classified material as they see fit.

It's also why it's relatively easy to deny former office holders their "courtesy clearance*", the current guy just has to stop sending the briefs.

* - ex-Presidents generally have access to the briefings and other hush hush stuff, so they can more effectively give advice and counsel to the current Executive, but AFAIK it's just a perk extended by the former folx.