Pulte is Trump's pick for "acting head" of DNI. The "acting" status means he doesn't need Senate confirmation, which would be a struggle.
Qualifications no longer matter to Trump. Pulte has no military or intelligence experience. I'm sure he passed the loyalty test with flying colors, though. Trump must think he did a great job as his "mortgage fraud!" attack dog, although there have been no convictions.
Trump names William Pulte as acting DNI head
Under a GOA investigation for improper conduct in his current position.
Bessent wanted to fight him 😂
Might as well move to to DNI, a useless, powerless extra layer of bureaucracy.
Bessent wanted to fight him
Bessent is the only actual badass in the group. No chest thumping, no rooster strutting, just an ass beating behind the scenes.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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