'The U.S. intelligence community faced "greater challenges" in briefing former President Trump than it had confronted in almost five decades, when President-elect Nixon was taking office, according to a new account published by the CIA's internal research center. . . . .
'Of Mr. Trump's approach to the PDB [Presidential Daily Brief], Gistaro, his first briefer, said, "He touched it. He doesn't really read anything." Gistaro's successor, Beth Sanner, adopted a "story-telling" approach to the briefings that included a one-page outline and a set of graphics, Helgerson recounts.'
