I mean, just today, another just totally jaw-dropping, gobsmacking, leave-you-speechless kind of news alert when it was announced that Donald Trump was announcing a flagrantly, almost impossibly unqualified candidate to replace Tulsi Gabbard as the director of national intelligence.

The man you see there is a guy named Bill Pulte,

who's spent the last year digging into the mortgage records of the president's critics

to hound them with malicious prosecutions, that guy, Trump's attack dog.

That guy, who, by the way, has zero intelligence or natural security experience whatsoever,

Trump wants to put him in charge of the entirety of the American intelligence apparatus,

all 11 agencies, all the spies, all the wiretaps, all the satellites, all the human,

into that guy, all of it.

So, Willie, when I first heard this, actually, I think I first read it on X.

I thought it was a joke.

I mean, the housing guy, you know, this is a preposterous appointment.

And, you know, the kind of what went through the ranks of the former officials like myself and even current ones as well,

as this is something that really should be looked at with some alarm.

I mean, a weaponized DNI, by the way, not my comment right there.

That's from Senate Majority Leader Thune.

It's something that should scare a lot of Americans.

This would be Tulsi Gabbard on steroids and then some.

You know, obviously this is a political hack.

He's made his name for himself and going after Trump's political enemies.

And the intelligence community and the intelligence chief, the DNI has a lot of power,

could do a lot of harm.

I'd know that it's about 210 days where he can stay in this position.

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