The US Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Donald Trump\u2019s top intelligence official Tuesday, putting a permanent chief in charge of the country\u2019s spy agencies as the president revives unsupported election fraud claims ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n
Senators voted 51-47 to confirm Clayton\u2019s appointment, with all Democrats in the upper chamber voting against it.<\/p>\n
\u201cJay is outstanding in every way, and will do a spectacular job as Director!\u201d Trump said in a post on Truth Social shortly after the vote.<\/p>\n
The former securities regulator and federal prosecutor succeeds Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned last month, and inherits an 18-agency intelligence community shaken by leadership turnover and staff cuts.<\/p>\n
His appointment comes amid concern that Trump is drawing national security agencies into his effort to relitigate the 2020 election and cast doubt on the integrity of the coming vote.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, Trump used a televised White House address to release declassified intelligence he claimed showed Chinese interference while again falsely asserting that the 2020 election was stolen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Donald Trump\u2019s top intelligence official Tuesday, putting a permanent chief in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[291435,64443,23,65872,2356,46961,15284,4515,12,5649,18485,3319,101625,3,2186,720,20701,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-790617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-2020-election","tag-adam-schiff","tag-america","tag-bill-pulte","tag-california","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-cnn","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-jay-clayton","tag-joe-biden","tag-mark-warner","tag-news","tag-republicans","tag-senate","tag-tulsi-gabbard","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\/790617","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=790617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}