Dan De Luce is a reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
The guilty verdict Thursday in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial likely will not affect plans by U.S. intelligence agencies to provide him with briefings after he is formally named the Republican presidential nominee, a U.S. official told NBC News. The intelligence briefings for presidential nominees are not mandated by law but are a custom dating back to 1952, designed to ensure a smooth transition of power and to prepare a prospective commander in chief for office.
The briefings “would very likely not include information about sources or methods” behind the intelligence, he said. “The fact that Trump has now been convicted of fraud sadly provides further evidence that the former president holds the concept of trust in very low regard. Trust is fundamentally what makes our system of protecting secrets work,” Pfeiffer told NBC News.
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