Trump: Pulte Won't Get DNI Job Permanently

 

Following a revolt of MAGAt Senators, the deranged and vindictive Malignant Fascist declared that he wouldn't nominate his unfit hatchet man Bill Pulte to be permanent Director of National Intelligence.  However, Pulte will remain as acting DNI until a nominee for the position is confirmed by the Senate, with plenty of time to conduct the MF's retribution campaign in his acting position. From NBC News:

"President Donald Trump said Thursday that his newly appointed acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, will not take up the position permanently.

Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, two days after appointing Pulte to the acting role, a move that prompted pushback from members of his own party.

'It’s an acting position. It’s not permanent,' Trump said. 'I don’t think he’d want to be permanent.'

Republicans criticized Pulte’s appointment to lead the nation’s spy agencies, citing his lack of national security and intelligence experience. [snip]

Still, the president said that Pulte, a Trump loyalist who had used his position as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency to launch investigations into Trump’s perceived political foes, 'may find out some things about the rigged elections” while he serves as director of national intelligence.'" (our emphasis)

Former Senate majority leader and human - turtle hybrid, the cynical Sen. Mitch McConnell noted that the position requires a person with extensive national security experience, which Pulte lacks:

“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote.”

It's clear that the MF has no concern about someone with national security experience.  It's likely that the MF will drag out his "search" for a permanent DNI, while the fanatically loyal Pulte remains acting and picks up the "rigged elections" canard that his disgraced predecessor Tulsi "Kremlin's Girl" Gabbard pursued in places like the Fulton Co., Georgia, board of elections.  The Federal Vacancies Reform Act allows an acting political appointee to serve in a position requiring Senate approval for up to 210 days.