Penner wrote:WTF, this is true. Trump told the press that he will not be reading his daily intelligence briefings but instead told them that he might look at them like once or twice a week (at best) and even said he was too smart to read them. Plus, his VP Pence was the one who was literally reading them every day. That's a real story being told. It's not some liberal whining. This guy doesn't want to do his duties as president.
The President has no duty to attend a daily intelligence brief, nor even to read the PDB, the President can choose to source his intelligence when and from where, as he deems neccesary.
Prior to 1961, there was no such thing as a PDB.
PDB has nothing to do with Article II, the PDB is entirely at the beck and call of the POTUS, or not, as the POTUS so chooses, the POTUS could cancel PDB's alltogether, not even at the stroke of the pen, but merely by saying "knock it off".
The President is Commander-in-Chief, the intelligence agencies don't tell him how to suck eggs, nor does the liberal media, nor the oppisition in congress, nor the opposing party, the CinC decides how, where, when, and why he is to be briefed, entirely at his discretion.
A President can come in on day one, and say that he's changing everything, the whole way the Executive does business, from top to bottom, without seeking anyones leave do so, that's what being President means.
