https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-green-lights-dni-pulte-004537837.html
Yahoo! News
Fox News
Trump green lights new DNI Pulte to 'start the process' on mass intelligence firings
Robert McGreevy Fri, June 5, 2026 at 5:45 PM PDT 3 min read
President Donald Trump says he wants incoming Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Bill Pulte to "start the process" of firing intelligence community officials, he told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday.
Trump on Tuesday tapped Pulte to take over for the current DNI Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned in May after her husband was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Pulte, who will take over in the interim when Gabbard's resignation becomes official on June 30, has apparently been tasked with reducing the number of employees at the 18 intelligence agencies over which the DNI presides.
"I'd like to see it smaller. I think there are a lot of people in there that shouldn't be there," Trump told the Wall Street Journal, referring to the intelligence community.
Trump Names Bill Pulte Acting Director Of National Intelligence
The selection of Pulte, who currently serves as Trump's Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has reportedly irked a swath of lawmakers, including former Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who publicly criticized the move.
"We don't need a weaponized DNI. We need professionals there," Thune said.
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Truth (2015)
Quotes
Mary Mapes: Do you know what it would take to fake these memos?
Dick Hibey: Mary...
Mary Mapes: No, this is important. It would require the forger to have an in-depth knowledge of the 1971 Air Force manual, including rules and regulations and abbreviations. He would have to know Bush's official record front to back to make sure none of these memos conflicted with it. He would have to know all of the players in the Texas Air National Guard at the time, not just their names, but their attitudes, their opinions including how they related to one another. He would have to know that Colonel Killian kept personal memos like this for himself in the first place. He would have to know how Killian felt at the time particularly about his superiors and then First Lieutenant Bush. He would have to know or learn all of this in order to fool us as you assume he did. Now... Do you really think that a man who takes this kind of time and precision, then goes and types these up on Microsoft Word?
[Small pause]
Mary Mapes: Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories, because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream. They question your politics, your objectivity, hell, your basic humanity. And they hope to God the truth gets lost in the scrum. And when it is finally over and they have kicked and shouted so loud, we can't even remember what the point was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_of_Donald_Trump_and_Jeffrey_Epstein
Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein
From Wikipedia [retrieved by me, Kerry Burgess, for the first time on 06/05/2026]
Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, developed a social and professional relationship with financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
An anonymous affidavit by "Tiffany Doe" said that Epstein had paid her directly from 1991 to 2000 "to attract adolescent women" to parties at his mansion (Herbert N. Straus House). In the summer of 1994, she lured a minor who expressed interest in modeling. In her affidavit, she said that both "Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old. I personally witnessed four sexual encounters" between Trump and the 13-year-old. In one of the alleged incidents, a 12-year-old girl was simultaneously victimized, and in another, Trump continued assaulting the 13-year-old "despite her pleas to stop". She said that Epstein likewise attempted to rape the 13-year-old on two occasions that she witnessed or learned of. "Tiffany Doe" said she personally witnessed both Trump and Epstein threaten to kill the 13-year-old if she were to tell anyone what had happened and that Trump further warned the victim that he was "capable of having her whole family killed". She signed the affidavit in 2016.
https://www.courthousenews.com/tiffany-doe-affidavit/
Courthouse News Service
Tiffany Doe Affidavit
Declaration in Support of Protective Order in Epstein Case
06/18/2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulte
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulte
Bill Pulte
From Wikipedia
William John Pulte (born May 28, 1988)
Pulte's accusations against several Trump foes led to claims that he was abusing his authority and weaponizing his office for political purposes. In September 2025, six Democratic senators sent a letter to Pulte alleging that he had "abused" his position to seek retribution against Trump's foes.
Trump later told The Wall Street Journal that he wanted Pulte to fire employees at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and that he supported eliminating the agency.
On June 2, 2026, Trump named Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence.
According to Politico, Pulte's appointment elicited concern from some within the intelligence community. Conversely, his appointment was praised by some within the MAGA movement, including Steve Bannon, who told Politico that it was a "middle finger to the Senate" and a "fuck you to the Deep State".
https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/reagans-life-times/
Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute
RONALD REAGAN RUNS FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
November 13, 1979
Throughout the Carter administration, Ronald Reagan became increasingly concerned about things that were happening – and not happening – in Washington, D.C. Cuts in defense spending, distribution of wealth, national economic planning, faltering national security, rising unemployment, increased inflation and climbing interest rates were leading the nation into a serious recession. Worst of all, Americans were losing faith in themselves and in their country and were growing increasingly frustrated with excessive taxation and oppressive government regulations. With a public outcry for change, and confidence that Ronald Reagan would be the agent of that change, Reagan agreed to run for President of the United States and declared his intention in a speech at the New York Hilton Hotel on November 13, 1979.
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The Queen (2006)
Quotes
HM The Queen Mother: You will have to talk to Lord Chamberlain about all this.
HM Queen Elizabeth II: Oh, I have. And to Robert Fellowes, and it seems they both agree with Mr. Blair.
HM The Queen Mother: I see.
HM Queen Elizabeth II: Something's happened. There's been a change, some shift in values. When you no longer understand your people, Mummy, maybe it is time to hand it over to the next generation.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 9:12 PM Pacific-timezone USA Friday 06/05/2026
