Trump spent years screaming about weaponized intelligence agencies and promised to install qualified professionals, not political appointees. Instead he’s handing the nation’s top intelligence job to Bill Pulte, a housing finance heir with zero intelligence experience whose main qualification is using his government position to prosecute Trump’s enemies. Same swamp, new paint job. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/trump-bill-pulte-director-national-intelligence
The man who built his brand attacking government secrecy and praising WikiLeaks now wants gag orders on every federal employee—with criminal penalties for talking to journalists. He praised leaks when they helped him, but suddenly wants Soviet-style information control to prevent Americans from exposing wrongdoing. This is authoritarianism wrapped in the language of accountability. Source:…