{"id":18551,"date":"2016-12-12T01:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T01:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2016-12-12T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T01:10:02","slug":"who-decides-trump-needs-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18551","title":{"rendered":"Who decides Trump &#8216;needs&#8217; briefing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AAlqppL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18552\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AAlqppL-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"aalqppl\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AAlqppL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AAlqppL.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump says he doesn&#8217;t need to be briefed daily on national security issues because &#8220;like, I&#8217;m a smart person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect also says he gets the briefings when &#8220;I need it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My question is this: Who determines whether Trump &#8220;needs&#8221; the briefing, the president-elect or the national security team assigned to provide the intelligence information to him?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-says-no-to-daily-redundant-intel-briefings-because-hes-a-smart-person\/ar-AAlqP05?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-says-no-to-daily-redundant-intel-briefings-because-hes-a-smart-person\/ar-AAlqP05?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What appears to be emerging here is an enormous responsibility for Mike Pence, the vice president-elect who happens to have actual government experience as governor of Indiana and before that as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Pence gets the briefings far more frequently than Trump, according to the president-elect. This suggests to me that Pence is preparing to the Trump administrations&#8217; go-to guy on issues relating to national security.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting the Islamic State? Dealing with geopolitical threats in Europe, Asia and Latin America?<\/p>\n<p>Let Mike deal with it. The president is too busy making\u00a0America great again.<\/p>\n<p>And I bet you thought no vice president could wield the clout that Dick Cheney did during the George W. Bush administration.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump says he doesn&#8217;t need to be briefed daily on national security issues because &#8220;like, I&#8217;m a smart person.&#8221; The president-elect also says he gets the briefings when &#8220;I need it.&#8221; My question is this: Who determines whether Trump &#8220;needs&#8221; the briefing, the president-elect or the national security team assigned to provide the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18551\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who decides Trump &#8216;needs&#8217; briefing?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[1380,1424,1899,6740,2362,3067,6739],"class_list":["post-18551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-dick-cheney","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-w-bush","tag-intelligence-briefings","tag-islamic-state","tag-mike-pence","tag-vpotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18553,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions\/18553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}