Officials were often reluctant to hand over sensitive intelligence to Donald Trump over concerns about how he handled information, The New York Times reported.

The ex-president's habit of hanging on to some documents created anxiety among top officials who had grown hesitant to relay everything to him, the report said, because of his "penchant for blurting out secret information."

Citing former administration officials and those involved in briefing Trump during his time in office, The Times reported that his interest was mostly piqued by information on the private lives of other world leaders.

Trump's handling of classified information while in office is currently the subject of intense scrutiny in the wake of the August 8 search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate by the FBI. Agents in the search retrieved stashes of highly classified information they believe Trump wrongly took with him after leaving office. ...