Unstable Trump Wigs Out And Bashes US Intelligence Before Security Briefing

The more than two-hour briefing was held at an Federal Bureau of Investigation field office in New York City and was led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally on August 16, 2016 in West Bend, Wisconsin.

Donald Trump is expected to receive his first classified national intelligence briefing, according to multiple reports.

Trump took that outsider attitude to his first formal national security briefing by Central Intelligence Agency and U.S. military officials Wednesday as well, saying he will not trust what he’s told.

Morell, who has endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, said the briefings could differ simply because of Clinton’s experience on national security issues. The FBI’s office in New York City has such rooms.

Yet the reaction on Twitter to Mr Trump’s imminent briefing was not so sanguine.

“The briefers, they don’t talk about policy”, said Flynn, who was with Trump during the security briefing.

Trump was also joined in that meeting by campaign chairman Paul Manafort, newly minted campaign manager Kellyanne Conway along with newly hired campaign CEO Steve Bannon, the co-founder of Breitbart News.

CREDO, a liberal group, collected 80,000 signatures on a petition to block Trump from receiving security briefings, the network reported.

In 2014, Flynn retired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency after a lengthy career in military service.

The briefings the candidates receive is an abridged version of what President Barack Obama receives every day. Last month, Trump said Russian Federation should “find the 30,000 emails that are missing” from Hillary Clinton’s email account. But one won’t, so officials don’t share sources, intelligence-gathering methods, or details of ongoing covert operations, Priess said.

Both candidates receive these briefings, usually within days of one another.

“It’s not up to the administration and certainly not up to me personally to decide on the suitability of a presidential candidate”, Clapper said at a security forum in Colorado last month.

“He wants to make sure the right people are coming into our country, not the people that we’re probably taking in right now”.