Putin has started receiving intelligence briefings.
Sad but true.

On speaker phone.

If other countries are smart, they should share nothing with Trump's regime.

On that. Five nations saying they are not sharing intel with us.

So it will do good for Trump.

Play a little good cop - bad cop.

The good part, he won't remember; the bad part, he won't UNDERSTAND!

together to make things better.

his rallies and the Madison Square Garden hate fest.

This had nothing to do with digital attacks.

The country has revealed exactly what it is, and it isn’t a pretty picture.

Nor did darned near half of the US.

"Maybe Americans like fascism?"

He's proven he's a danger to national security, so he might just slip up and provide the evidence the Defense Department needs -- and commander-in-chief Biden, for that matter -- to legally justify withholding anything but lowest level classified intel from him for the duration of his administration.

the ethics pledge ?

what could possibly go wrong?

(Standard Form 86). Their access to classified information is based on their positions. Their non-elected or non-senate conformed judicial staff positions are subject to the normal federal government security clearance process.

The Federal Government also extends some classified access to state, tribal and local officials.

investigation. For Presidential appointees, it usually has been the FBI.

Following the investigation, an authorized official adjudicates the investigation and grants or denies a level of clearance (Confidential/Secret/Top Secret), or denies a clearance. In addition to a clearance being granted, the individual may or may not be granted access to additional categories of information, such as Restricted Data, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and/or non-SCI Special Access Programs.

The Executive Branch has great latitude in granting clearances and accesses, including to Congressional and Judicial Staff personnel (but not to members and Article III Justices/Judges). Unless overruled by the DNI or President, NSA, CIA, and NGA can deny access to agency sub-compartmented programs.

NSA and CIA also require successful polygraphs for access to some of their information. Everyone takes a full lifestyle (personal conduct) test and counterintelligence (CI) tests except military personnel assigned to NSA, who take only the CI poly.

But if he was willing to forgo the carrot (office space, funding, etc.) - then there was never much of a "stick" in the Presidential Transition Act. And the incoming president receiving briefings predates the law anyway. It was always unlikely that this would change

since he's known as an OUTRIGHT security threat, considering that he's STOLE our country's FUCKING SECRETS, (and STILL has them, BTW)?

* or if a foreign adversary acts on the "leaked" info, then we'll know how it got out.

Or will he have to pay out of pocket.

other nations have said anything bad about him, and then he will seek retribution.

save traitor time passing the nation's security secrets along to our enemies. 'I report, you decide.'

Not kidding