Posted on 06/05/2026 11:23:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
Acting DNI Bill Pulte is preparing to fire a "large number" of Deep State Intel Community members.
According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump has urged Bill Pulte to "start the process" of firing intel officials.
President Trump said he wants to reduce the size of the federal intel agencies.
The Wall Street Journal reported:
President Trump said he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, to begin the process of firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Friday, Trump said he has privately told Pulte that he believes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, which oversees 18 federal intelligence agencies and units, is “unnecessary and/or too big.”
“I’d like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn’t be there,” Trump said, pointing to holdovers from the Biden and Obama administrations. Asked whether he is calling on Pulte to fire people, Trump said he wants him to “start the process,” adding that his eventual nominee to serve in the role permanently should continue that work.
Trump stunned many of his own advisers when he said earlier this week that he was appointing Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as his intelligence chief. The move was met with skepticism from some Republicans on Capitol Hill, who raised concerns about Pulte’s lack of national-security experience.
President Trump this week announced he appointed Pulte to serve as the Acting Director of National Intelligence.
Bill Pulte is currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Seriously!?
“conspiracy to use government assets to further their own political views“
In many cases, it’s worse than what you say.
Treason is real.
Without the inside dope, he can't get a DC jerb on JerKoff Street, will have to go home and be Grampcillor of UNC-Dickberg. SCHADENFREUDE!
The deep state suffers from low IQ. This affects everything.
The CIA has already perpetrated many terrorist acts on the homeland.
Let’s see what happens from here.
You can’t get the low IQ out of communism.
You speak of the deep state.
“Moonbatting” is not allowed during daylight hours EDT.
Why do we even need ODNI?
Seems wasteful.
It only seems wasteful to members of the deep state.
Good. Get rid of the traitors.
His grandfather is the builder. He started a private equity firm.
He sat on the PulteGroup board for 4 years.
It almost certainly does not agree, simply because it has a different assessment consistent with disagreeing with much if not all of what Trump does.
That fact alone does not negate my assessment of Trump's viewpoint. But thank you for your comment.
Yeah.
We can name it “Brennanism”.
Pul;te is in place because he does have loyalty to Trump/MAGA and he is in place because he has a track record of going after corruption.
Then you misread the statement you just accurately quoted from my original post.
See particularly, "selected individuals". Contextually, the individuals were those whose employment might be terminated. Loyalty to Trump is not in question.
All in all, I am pleased we cleared that up.
“Your comments smell like communism in disguise.“
Hah hah!
So if someone disagrees with someone you support, it’s communism??!!
Hah!
You do realize that communists are the ones in favor of putting their cronies in positions they aren’t qualified for.
Conservatives believe in being competent .
Obama and Biden put political hacks in positions of influence
“If a team is building a new airplane, I kind of want them to know what they are doing.”
Are you actually serious??
The intelligence agencies are not technical mechanical machines; they are reservoirs of ideological anti-American idiots.
“ they are reservoirs of ideological anti-American idiots.”
Some of them are yes.
But we need the function of what they do in our government .
Yes clean them up.
Find competent and patriotic people with deep experience in the field to clean it up.
How does a house builder know what to keep and what to get rid of?
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