Former Trump administration officials said President Trump’s national security advisers began limiting their briefing of the president on matters relating to Russia due to his frequent pushback on such assessments, CNN reported.
Former officials responsible for briefing Trump on national security issues said they found he frequently became angry when being presented with intelligence implicating Russia in political interference.
“The President has created an environment that dissuades, if not prohibits, the mentioning of any intelligence that isn’t favorable to Russia,” a former senior national security staffer told the network.
To avoid such episodes, briefers often only included Russia-related material in the president’s written briefing materials, but later found that he frequently did not read the written material, the network reported.
While the briefers did not cease briefing Trump on Russian-related matters altogether, they made a calculation to only brief him on them when severe threats were involved, officials told CNN.
A former intelligence official told the network that briefers’ approach was “Never casually go in on Russia, decide when it’s differential …. Save it for when it matters.”
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