{"id":699320,"date":"2026-06-12T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699320\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:56:08","slug":"trump-nominates-u-s-attorney-jay-clayton-as-dni-after-pushback-over-bill-pulte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699320\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump nominates U.S. attorney Jay Clayton as DNI after pushback over Bill Pulte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JY6HZGFJSJDK3BOKQ5FLWXX6HI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to serve as the next director of national intelligence. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2UTDHX4Q65HYBGL6EBQA3KEOAA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cFew people anywhere in the Legal Community are respected at the level of Jay,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cI encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-699320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}