At a meeting of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, Gordon — who left the administration over the summer so that Trump could install an ally at the top of the U.S. intelligence apparatus — revealed that the president had little grasp of intelligence gathering when she began briefing him, CNN reported.
An official who has briefed presidents since Ronald Reagan was in office, Gordon said Trump was the first president with “no foundation or framework to understand what the limits of intelligence are, what the purpose of it was and the way that we discuss it.” It’s a jarring description of the top official in the federal government — even if it’s one we’ve come to accept as the status quo.