John Ratcliffe will head up the Central Intelligence Agency in the Trump Administration, the president-elect announced Tuesday. Ratcliffe is a former Texas congressman and former Director of National Intelligence.
“When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People,” Trump said in a statement.
Ratcliffe is a co-chair of the Center for American Security at the America First Institute. He was the sixth director of National Intelligence under President Donald Trump and was the principal intelligence advisor to President Trump.
Ratcliffe successfully deployed covert and clandestine intelligence assets to remove numerous designated terrorist leaders from the around the world and shift the U.S. intelligence community priorities to better position the U.S. for success in the great power competition with China. He designated space as a priority intelligence domain by adding the U.S. Space Force as a member of the intelligence community.
In recognition of his national security achievements, President Trump awarded Ratcliffe the National Security Medal, the nation’s highest honor for distinguished achievement in the field of intelligence and national security.
Ratcliffe served in Congress for over five years as the U.S. representative for the 4th Congressional District of Texas, was a leading policymaker on national security issues as a member of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees and was Cybersecurity chairman on the Homeland Security Committee. He lives in Heath, Texas, where he was mayor for eight years.
Pete Hegseth was nominated to run the Department of Defense.
“I am honored to announce that I have nominated Pete Hegseth to serve in my Cabinet as The Secretary of Defense. Pete has spent his entire life as a Warrior for the Troops, and for the Country. Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First,” Trump said. Hegseth has been cohosting Fox & Friends Weekend at Fox News, and has been a regular contributor since 2014.
Donald Trump also named former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as the incoming ambassador to Israel.
Other appointments induce William Joseph McGinley, who will serve as White House counsel and help Trump advance his America First agenda and will right against the weaponization of law enforcement. McGinley served in the first Trump Administration as White House Cabinet Secretary.
Earlier in the day, he announced that Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida will be national security adviser. Rep. Elise Stefanik will be the ambassador to the United Nations and South Dakota Gov. Kristie Noem will lead the Department of Homeland Security.
Tom Homan is the president-elect’s new border czar.
Are these the guys he is calling his warrior board? The guys that supposedly can fire a 4 star general at will? Reminds me more every day of Hitler. Like when he fired Ramal of all people when he told Adolf he was wrong.
Why do you pretend like you know much of anything about Adolf Hitler? Hitler died almost EIGHTY years ago in a country that you have likely never visited. Did you see a movie? I think you might be trying to talk about Erwin Rommel, but that is uncertain. Criticize Trump all you want, that’s fair. But trying to pull Adolf Hitler into the discussion is childish.
Yes, the famous tank commander. When he went against Hitler, he was allowed to die from self inflicted lead poisoning. History repeats itself. To know it is to know the future.
Yet it was ok when Obama fired off all of the non woke generals? Like when he fired the General who wanted to send in support teams to Benghazi?
Some deserved it. One was compromised.
Ratcliffe is a very strong appointment and should be able to contain and clean up the Deep Staters at the CIA. When all the layers are pulled back, I suspect the CIA contains a bunch of folks playing domestic politics. Lots of CIA people are entitled Ivy League snakes from the Northeast. I admit to having little solid evidence but there have been multiple events in recent years that “have all the classic hallmarks of Deep State disinformation”. The main one is planting disinformation in foreign media with the intent that it will be picked up by the US media. By law, the CIA is prohibited from operating inside the US, but I suspect the boys and girls at CIA have multiple ways around this limitation. Ratcliffe, as the former Director of National Intelligence, knows the terrain and the games.
…..and likely know his limitations.
Since 2011, when Obama issued an Executive Order allowing the CIA to use propaganda on the American public, the intelligence agencies have been fervently & overtly brainwashing our domestic population through our Mainstream Media. Of course, using Project Mockingbird (now declassified) the CIA had been doing this covertly since the 70’s.
Thank you for the background. I am going to take a look at the things you mention.
If Trump appoints a sitting Senator or Congressperson, they can thereafter be fired. Perhaps all intended appointments do not include that in the considerations. But they could…
Good people all, Mr. President – but beware taking so many from Congress that we lose our majority. If the dems gain control, the first thing they will do is impeach you.
In Florida and other states, it is the Governor who appoints a temporary replacement. DeSantis could appoint himself, or rather, step down as Gov, then the new Governor, his lt. Governor appoints him to the Senate. Historically, this has never work out long term. Plus, DeSantis has gone out of his way to distance himself from Trump…..just in case. He still wants to run in 4 years.
A Governor does not appoint a Representative. When they are taken from the House you loose the slim majority that they do have and with a Special election the Democrats could very well flip the House and then Trump won’t get anything done especially the cutting of the budget which the House controls.
I mentioned Senate.
Homan is a great pick. He’s as tough as he looks. My son was an ICE officer and he said the ICE and Border Patrol people are very happy with Homan as boss. They will finally be able to do their job.
It’s important to note that since Thune won the senate leadership position over Trumps buddies, he now controls the agenda. This could be interesting.
Obviously you don’t read anything. He can be replaced by JD Vance if he does not tow the Maga agenda. Go look it up in the constitution, it happend in 1805.
No, he can’t. Go back and reread your copy of the constitution. In Florida, a Governor selects a replacement senator if one dies, quits or other.
You may want to have one of the nurses read the constitution of the United States. Why do you keep quoting the constitution of Florida, that’s not the law of the land. Off your meds again?
So, we’re replacing a former four-star general as Defense Secretary with… the weekend co-host of Fox and Friends?
Lol
Yes we are.
Also a 20 year army vet, Princeton graduate who has a masters from Harvard. I am gonna say he is quite qualified. Unlike your guys hero Tim Walz Pete has actually been to Iraq and Afghanistan
Okay, so no one commented on Hegseth for DOD. As a retired former member of the military, I believe he is not a good choice. This is a huge job that requires experience and “cahones” to address our military’s needs and wants. Sorry, can’t support this, for what it is worth!
Pete Hegseth is a great choice! How many of the complainers on this site here have actually read any of his books? He is very knowledgeable about the military and has the pulse of its service members.
The first thing he’ll do is bulldoze through the career generals and bureaucrats that bloat the Pentagon and all the service academies, who have so eagerly and shamefully embraced the leftwing DEI agenda. Where was the introspection after the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle? Which Pentagon employees were fired? The only ones who lost their jobs were those who dared speak out about it.
He will also work with Vivek and Elon to redesign the bureaucracy as well as the appropriation systems.
I bet the service ranks are ecstatic.
The toughest problem he’ll face is time – the need to get this all established during Trump’s four years.