Trump Team: He Gets Formal Intel Briefings 3 Times a Week

Trump Team: He Gets Formal Intel Briefings 3 Times a Week
US President-elect Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 10, 2016. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s transition team said Wednesday that he is getting formal intelligence briefings at least three times a week.

Spokesman Sean Spicer said the president-elect also is meeting daily with incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn on intelligence matters. Flynn is a retired Army general and led the Defense Intelligence Agency until 2014.

“Every single day, he’s getting a briefing,” Spicer told reporters on the daily transition conference call. “Three times a week, it’s the actual” President’s Daily Brief, the highest-level intelligence document produced in the United States.

President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, Michael T. Flynn, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower, on Dec. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
President-elect Donald J. Trump's choice for National Security Advisor, Michael T. Flynn, waits for an elevator at Trump Tower, on Dec. 12, 2016. AP Photo/Kathy Willens