Acting DNI Bill Pulte arrives at office, requests plane and top clearance
Pulte shows up to his Acting DNI job a day early, surprising outgoing DNI. Wants to fire 100s. Also asks if he has TS clearance, for a security detail, for the PDB at his house, and -- repeatedly -- if he has access to a gov't plane so he can travel between his homes. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...
Rachel P-M195If you have to ask if you have TS clearance…you don’t have it.
Diedrich Bader122He clearly has no idea wtf he’s doing but he’s going to immediately fire people
choo choo choose anger42The Viziers all just want their little retinue and their little perks and their little kingdom. They all just want to be a little Trump, ruling like God over someone, something, anything. It’s one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
indigopoodle.bsky.social33These very un-serious people are going to get us killed.
Sundog Millionaire32You have to earn the Kash package William.
Ian Miles Schlong28Homes?! Someone should make sure this guy didn’t do any mortgage fraud
BorderCountess26I feel like if you have to ask if you have Top Secret clearance, you don't.
DragonHawk195917Any use of a government plane for personal business is required to be compensated. But only at a rate equivalent to flying coach. Which in no way equates to the actual cost to the government. Yes, I actually looked into it recently.
henry sholar16hoping pulte's every move will be leaked and documented. this shitty little nazi will be held to account. the task now is to monkeywrench him as much as possible.
Deb ❌👑10So all of this sucks. Along with the fact that he's absolutely and totally unqualified for the job, it's one that requires top secret clearance and he doesn't know if he has it? He shouldn't even be allowed in the building.
DB McWeeberton9"a Trump loyalist with no intelligence experience" has more than one meaning here
Pyperkub8Which of those 2 homes did he commit mortgage fraud with?
I’m the Bombardier8"Pulte asked staff if he could bring the President’s Daily Brief to his house, raising alarm bells among intelligence officials, according to one of the sources. That briefing is a highly classified set of intelligence on key national security matters of the day."
Lester Diamond8So his marching orders are to be such a nightmare that Senators fall over themselves to vote for Trump toadie Jay Clayton’s appointment. Got it.
nycgeo6“CNN previously reported that before Pulte was announced to lead the US intelligence community, he did not have a security clearance granting him access to highly-classified information — meaning he lacked what has long been considered a basic prerequisite for the job.”
Nana Jopa6To state the obvious; maybe when you’re taking on an incredibly important role like acting director of national Intelligence (at a time when Trump is distancing from every ally we have) you could maybe learn what the job is before you start dismantling the department and asking for perks.
NonViolet5None of these people understand the difference between serving in the federal government and being a corporate executive with all kinds of expensive and undeserved perks.
jaycmartin35.bsky.social5How Pulte imagines he acquires security clearance.
johnnyrocktail.bsky.social5He's only 38? I thought he was closer to 60
Doug4We are less secure with this clown as dni.
dan411.bsky.social3Another grifter in leadership position? Who'd a thunk it?
Mark Ramos 🏳️🌈3These motherfuckers have no desire (nor capability) to serve, only to grift. Also, the rules and protocols are not for them, and the oath is just a poem. I say put ‘em all in a rocket and fire it into the fucking sun.
aandt.bsky.social3Typical Trump pick- selfish, greedy and unqualified.
Kat💙3Nice to know these people are acting like posh executives with their corporate privileges with our tax dollars.
Steve Schmidt3I am afraid that this guy is just another in a long line of dickheads that this administration has brought into government.
Bellamy J. Heap3Laser focused on the most important security issues the US is facing today on Day -1 I see. China and Russia must be quaking in their boots right now.
Snarky McSnarkerson3We need to start treating traitors as traitors. Make an example out of them.
fenraven3Maybe he should consider the government just rehired thousands of former employees before firing anyone. It cost the taxpayers MILLIONS, and we're sick and tired of seeing our money being wasted.
Rob Honeycutt3Dude, pay for your own trips between your homes. No reason taxpayers should bear that burden.
Drunken Hausfrau3Fired intelligence people: please leak info to help us take down this criminal regime!
jim-in-co.bsky.social3Typical of Trump's choices. Only interested in how the job benefits them, not the importance or gravity of tasks at hand. Total opposite of rank-and-file government employees.
AwntieWithaW2I’m so tired of these assholes
billbre.bsky.social2It take years to train and season any person who is in national intelligence. So firing hundreds will hurt our already weak DNI.
Paul Snead2This is seriously bad news. This guy should be nowhere near our nation intelligence network.
Mike Hutchinson2Physically incapable of sticking to a plan lol
Craig M.2Guessing that his biggest fan is named Vlad.
Annette & Vizsla Tucker2What can my government do for me?
Adam CA2More incompetence breaking our norms.
Gonna be extremely cool watching Bill Pulte go to prison under the next admin
Schnorkles O'Bork22The bench of loyalists seems to be getting a might thin
BigTVFan6I admire your certainty but respectfully asking what makes you so, since no one seems to have been held accountable for the first time including R congress reps who participated in 1/6.
Zirkle 黄智猴3Thanks for "telegraphing" your intentions by trying to start a day early... I hope the IC uses that 24 hours as wisely as possible.
Mike Battaglia2In addition to having another unqualified leader in this administration I had to actually look up his age. I didn’t think there was any way this guy is 38
Winglander2Trump already has the pardon written
Raymond Guiteras2Someone needs to sabotage the autopen on Jan 19 2029 and hope it takes more than a day to fix
Jared Kushner was America's lead nuclear negotiator with Iran. Bill Pulte is heading up America's spy agencies. Are real estate nepo babies without security clearances having a moment?
Joe Unseen6Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff negotiated the Iran deal and President Trump signed it with an auto pen. Here is why this is all JD Vance’s fault.
Atom Corolla3Bruh! Our President is the ultimate real estate nepo baby!
robertholzer.bsky.social2Kushner and Pulte screw up the right way. by Ezra Klein
Something is wrong with Trump’s obsession with making Bill Pulte Acting DNI when he could have had Jay Clayton confirmed this week. My take is on Substack. Join us: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
Joe6"Something is wrong with Trump..." pretty much summarizes it.
Jerry4Pulte will have free reign to do massive damage as Trump wants. Things Clayton wouldn’t do. All part of the diabolical plan. Pulte may cancel elections for national security.
Gorgonlin3Trump wants revenge for Russia, Russia, Russia and Pulte will do something like out half the spies...
