Asked how briefers accommodate different intelligence customers (i.e., the president), Beth Sanner, Trump's briefer, says: "For me, it's about competence--being totally on top of your material but not doing it in a way that becomes off-putting. Watch your audience and pivot 1/
2/ when they're done, you're done. Listening to be heard -- you have to really hear people and then adjust yourself. And do not be afraid...if every time I went in and talked to the president I was afraid, I'd never get anything done."
Recall: The WH's insistence that Trump wasn't orally briefed on Russia bounty intel has thrust Sanner into an uncomfortably public position. NSA O'Brien claimed last week that Sanner was the person who decided not to mention that intelligence to Trump. politico.com/news/2020/07/0…
