President-elect Trump has started receiving intelligence briefings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Trump pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing, with his lawyers saying he had a right to possess the documents.
39% : The ODNI would not comment specifically as to whether Trump was now accepting the offer of the briefings.
39% : When he was elected in 2016, Trump presented the intelligence community with a difficult challenge as he had publicly castigated the work and the integrity of spy agencies.
30% : "We will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them," Trump said during the campaign.
22% : Trump has vowed to purge the intelligence agencies of perceived "corrupt" or anti-democratic elements.
20% : A Trump transition team representative was not able to confirm that Trump had begun receiving the briefings.
17% : Before the election, Trump had said he did not want to get the intelligence briefings to avoid any chance he would be accused of leaking information.

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