Bill Pulte, the Federal Housing Guy, with Blind aliegence to Donald Trump was announced to resounding condemnation a week ago….
Under the onslaught ?
Trump turned to another choice….
The Second choice, which the Senate was hung-ho for was to be Jay Clayton….
Clayton, The US Attorney for New York was seen as someone who would NOT be a Trump ‘puppet’
But they one can guess someone got Donald all bothered and he thought of this…..
Keep a guy who has NO experience and only ONE aim with sitting on top of the United States Intelligence Community …
To go after those The President seeks revenge against….
Oh?
Donald will back off….
He wants a National Voter ID law and is using the lapse of US Intelligence FISA law as leverage against his OWN parties Senators…….
The Director of National Intelligence is NOT a active spy outfit ….
It collects intel for a range of agencies and is supposed mange thing on a high level FOR the President…
This IS another brutal attack on the power of the US Senate , which is supposted to exercise oversight and even some policy as it related to the nation’s spy’s….
Not have a Trump hingman collecting Domestic intelligence to give to the Trump Justice Dept. to go after people….
Donald J. Trump & Co. make NOP pretence against using the America Govt. for mean and sometimes unlawful actions that only the judges, courts and grand juries have stood up against….
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Former officials and lawmakers have said they are worried Mr. Pulte could declassify information that increases foreign propaganda, feeds false narratives about past or future elections, and exposes sources or methods of intelligence collection.
Tulsi Gabbard, the current director of national intelligence, has won praise from Mr. Trump for focusing on election matters, including the examination of Russian interference in the 2016election and Mr. Trump’s unfounded claims of fraud in the 2020 vote.
But Ms. Gabbard had limits to how far she was willing to go with her election claims and declassifications, current and former officials said. Lawmakers and former officials said Mr. Pulte may have few restraints.
Mr. Pulte, who under the law can serve a maximum of 210 days in the post, has not said much about his priorities. But his record shows that he has a keen sense of what is important to Mr. Trump and an equally strong desire to please him. As a result, officials are bracing for the office to be even more involved in the midterm elections….
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Just a week ago, Mr. Trump announced that he would nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, to be the next director. Mr. Clayton, who was scheduled to have a hearing before the Senate on Wednesday, received his own tour of the Virginia campus, which is known as Liberty Crossing.
But on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said he was delaying Mr. Clayton’s nomination. The president demanded that Congress pass a contentious voter identification law before he pushed Mr. Clayton forward.
With the delay, Mr. Pulte again seems set to take over on Friday, when Ms. Gabbard is slated to step down.
The actions whipsawed members of the intelligence community, who found themselves once more facing at least a short period with Mr. Pulte as the acting director…..
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Both Republicans and Democrats have said that Mr. Pulte is unqualified for the post. That is in part because he lacks any national security experience. But more broadly, there is bipartisan concern about his record since he joined Mr. Trump’s second administration.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, said his concerns with Mr. Pulte centered on “the national security risk of showing our nation’s top secrets to an individual who’s shown no respect for law or privacy.”
Mr. Trump, Mr. Warner said, was rewarding Mr. Pulte for his record of “weaponizing mortgage information.”
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Exactly what Mr. Pulte may do on the election front is even less clear, but Mr. Trump has teased that Mr. Pulte’s appointment could mean that the public learns about “rigged elections.”
Raising election concerns was a key part of how Ms. Gabbard stayed in Mr. Trump’s good graces….
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Whatever Mr. Pulte’s first moves may be, his impending arrival is sitting poorly with Republicans. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina said that Mr. Trump’s decision to delay Mr. Clayton’s nomination was “another kink in the slinky that makes no sense.”
Mr. Tillis’ blunt assessment of Mr. Pulte: a “sycophant.”….
Note…
Those with long memories should NOT be surprised with Trump’s beating on the US Intelligence community….
The community NEVER took to Trump’s dancing and romancing with Russian Leader Putin back when he assumed office the first time….
Trump HAS been supportive of the Russian leader for over a decade to tune of sometimes saying he trusts Putin More that his American Intel people….