{"id":269961,"date":"2026-06-17T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269961\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:03:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:03:22","slug":"clayton-nomination-as-dni-is-placed-on-hold-until-mcdonald-can-be-confirmed-as-manhattan-u-s-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269961\/","title":{"rendered":"Clayton Nomination as DNI Is Placed on Hold Until McDonald Can Be Confirmed as Manhattan U.S. Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/news\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Government<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 text-sm text-neutral-80\">In a Truth Social post hours before Clayton was expected to appear before the Senate, Trump said the nomination was on pause, because &#8220;I may not be able to get the extraordinary Sullivan &amp; Cromwell Partner, Jamie, approved, and I don\u2019t want to take Jay Clayton away from the great job he is doing until Jamie is in place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2 minute read June 17, 2026 at 09:09 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsGovernment In a Truth Social post hours before Clayton was expected to appear before the Senate, Trump said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-269961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269961","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=269961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}