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