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The national secret service coordinator of US President Donald Trump,, Tulsi Gabardsearches for ways to adapt the president’s intelligence reports to his media usage habits. And so to win his trust. To do this, according to one Report by NBC News also consider a video format.
Gabard’s strategy: Fox news-style intelligence briefings for Trump
Gabard has apparently asked current and former intelligence officers for solutions. One possibility would be to convert the briefings into videos in the style of Fox News, as four sources told the broadcaster in his report published on Saturday. The President’s Daily letter (PDB) is currently a daily digital document that contains text, graphics and images. In order to implement this new approach, the office of the National Secret Service Director could even hire one of the moderators of FOX News and one of the station producers. Gabard itself was paid employees of the transmitter.
In comparison: Biden received 90 PDBs in the same period
Trump has only received the PDB, which can influence the decisions of the President, only 14 times since taking office, according to his public schedule. During its first term, the PDB was converted into a one -sided overview with fewer text and more images. And orally presented. In the same period of 2017, he received the briefing 55 times. President Joe Biden had already received 90 PDBs at the time.
Trump prefers oral and visual content
According to the sources, Gabard believes that Trump’s rare use of the PDB could be due to his distrust of secret service employees. But also that he consumes media differently than the PDB is formatted. Fox News has been his at least since its first term Preferred news source.
“The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t read,” said a source. “He is constantly on TV.”
Another idea for the PDB would have to be inserted “similar to a video game”, according to a report by NBC News, Graphics and Cards with animations of exploding bombs.
Trump to accept the PDB is “a very difficult struggle because he distrusts the secret services, said a source to the broadcaster.
Criticism and dementia: reactions to NBC report
Gabard’s office denied history. “This so-called ‘reporting’ is ridiculous, absurd and simply wrong. In real fake news manner, NBC publishes another wrong story from anonymous source,” explained Olivia Coleman, press spokeswoman for the director of the director of the national news services, in a statement to NBC News.
The story is “defamatory garbage from unnamed sources,” the spokesman for the White House, Davis Ingle, told the broadcaster. And added: “President Trump has put together a world -class intelligence team with which he is constantly in contact. And of which he is informed in real time about all urgent questions of national security. The security of the American people has top priority for President Trump.”
Gabard also considered to redesign the PDB so that he focuses more on topics that are more interested in Trump. Like economy and trade. And less about war in Ukraine, said three sources.
“You adapt to the government’s priorities,” said a source to NBC News.
Two Nic officers according to Venezuela report released
At the beginning of this month, Gabard changed responsibility for the creation of the PDB to achieve more control over how PBS News reported. Besides that dismissal She two high-ranking officials of the National Intelligence Council (Nic) after he had said in a report that the Venezuelan government did not send members of the Tren de Aragua gang to the USA. Which contradicts Trump’s claims.
“Since there is no evidence that justifies the layoffs, the workforce can only conclude that their jobs depend on the fact that they create analyzes that agree with the political agenda of the president, instead of being truthful and apolitical,” explained Jim Himes, democratic deputy from Connecticut and Rankest Democrat in the intelligence agency. Representative house.
CIA report from 2021 describes the less than a challenge
A CIA report published in 2021 describes The difficulties in the information in Trump during his first term. “Trump’s information presented the most difficult challenges to the secret services that they ever faced,” wrote the retired intelligence officer John L. Helgerson. Trump “questioned the competence of the secret service staff. And no need for regular secret service support”.
At that time, Trump was not inclined to accept the PDB. “He touched him,” said Ted Gistaro, a CIA analyst who often wrote Trump, in 2021. “He actually reads nothing.”