{"id":44837,"date":"2026-06-08T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44837"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:30:00","slug":"how-bad-is-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/06\/08\/how-bad-is-he\/","title":{"rendered":"How Bad Is He?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President is often – always, perhaps – influenced by visuals, and Director of Federal Housing Finance Agency<\/strong> Bill Pulte, now appointed acting national intelligence director while having no applicable experience, certainly has a certain intensity which may impress those who think, well, central casting matters<\/em> in government hiring. But let’s have Rep Himes (D-CT) have a say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

That’s \u2013 that’s not the way this works, right? The president needs to sober up and realize that this appointment is arguably, in the \u2013 in the \u2013 you know, you know, basket of awful appointments he has made, this is probably the worst and most dangerous.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ouch, but it’s worrisome when a man who campaigned for the President’s attention through accusations of mortgage fraud<\/a> against political adversaries of the President. We want competent, knowledgeable administrators in positions like DNI<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, not power-hungry hitmen who specialize in … their looks.<\/p>\n

The Democats are refusing to back renewal of the controversial FISA<\/strong><\/a> program while Pulte is acting DNI<\/strong><\/em>. This will cause a stir and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The President is often – always, perhaps – influenced by visuals, and Director of Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte, now appointed acting national intelligence director while having no applicable experience, certainly has a certain intensity which may impress those who think, well, central casting matters in government hiring. But \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44838,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44837\/revisions\/44838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}