President-elect Trump REJECTS daily intelligence meetings, saying he’s too clever to need them
The billionaire also labelled CIA claims over Russian hackers affecting the election result 'ridiculous'
PRESIDENT-elect Donald Trump claims he doesn’t need daily intelligence briefings because he’s such a “smart person.”
Trump said in a startling interview with Fox News Sunday that he only requires the information if something has changed.
“I say, ‘If something should change from this point, immediately call me. I’m available on one-minute’s notice,’” he said.
“I don’t have to be told—you know, I’m, like, a smart person. I don’t have to be told the same thing in the same words every single day for the next eight years.”
Trump is reportedly only receiving an intelligence briefing - by contrast President Obama has a briefing SIX DAYS a week.
Trump said the people who are giving him the briefings are “very good people” and his Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, was also receiving all the regular updates.
Trump also called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking “ridiculous”.
A secret CIA assessment concluded that Russia interfered with the US presidential election to help Trump win.
The finding alarmed US politicians, including Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain who said Sunday he planned to put a staunch Trump critic in charge of investigating the claim.
“It’s ridiculous,” Trump said of the CIA’s assessment, but didn’t rule out backing Obama’s order for a review of campaign-season hacking.
“If you’re gonna to do that, I think you should not just say ‘Russia.’ You should say other countries also, and maybe other individuals.”
Turning to business matters, Trump said he is leaving his worldwide enterprise to his executives and children, vowing, that he will "have nothing to do with management."
He's expected to discuss the arrangement at a news conference on Thursday.
He also said he is "studying" the Paris climate agreement to reduce carbon emissions.
But he doesn't want the agreement to put the U. "at a competitive disadvantage with other countries."
Trump also departed from Republican thinking by vowing to heavily tax companies that leave the US and then try to sell products here "like we're a bunch of jerks."
"That's the dumb market," he said. "I'm a big free trader, but it has to be fair."