Obama warns Trump not to spread details of security briefings
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WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama confirmed on Thursday that Donald Trump will get national security briefings ahead of the November election, but he warned the Republican candidate, whom he has called "unfit" for office, that information from the meetings must be kept secret.
"We are going to go by the law, which is that, in both tradition and the law, that if somebody is the nominee ... they need to get a security briefing so that if they were to win, they are not starting from scratch in terms of being prepared," Obama said.
"What I will say is that they have been told these are classified briefings," he added, in response to a question about whether he was concerned about Trump obtaining the classified information. "And if they want to be president, they got to start acting like president, and that means being able to receive these briefings and not spread them around."
