{"id":255375,"date":"2026-06-04T16:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255375\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:46:33","slug":"new-york-times-drops-blistering-headline-on-trumps-new-appointee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/255375\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Drops Blistering Headline On Trump&#8217;s New Appointee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times editorial board issued a blistering rebuke of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s decision to appoint Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, replacing former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard who quit as DNI last month.<\/p>\n<p>Pulte, currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, \u201cis blatantly unqualified to oversee the nation\u2019s spies\u201d and has \u201cno known background in national security,\u201d wrote the board, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-pulte-dni_n_6a1ee092e4b08a03cfbc7bff\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"joining widespread criticism\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a212a85e4b0ba317306c7bf\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6a1ee092e4b08a03cfbc7bff\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joining widespread criticism<\/a> of the president\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n<p>His \u201cone evident qualification is his eagerness to advance the president\u2019s political revenge campaign,\u201d it added, pointing to Pulte\u2019s use of his current position to attack the president\u2019s perceived enemies and imitate his \u201cchildish style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is chilling to think about how he might use his power as the director of national intelligence, a job that will give him access to sensitive secrets about Americans and foreigners alike,\u201d the editorial said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis appointment is a threat to the effective functioning of the intelligence community, national security and the rule of law,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times editorial board issued a blistering rebuke of Donald Trump\u2019s decision to appoint Bill Pulte&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99494,153,9,11,10,980],"class_list":["post-255375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bill-pulte","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}