Former GOP operative Tim Miller took a moment on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" to lay into President Donald Trump's move to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard with his controversial housing finance administrator Bill Pulte — a man often called Trump's "attack dog," and, Miller pointed out, has absolutely no qualifications to coordinate national intelligence.
"I'm going to startwith you because there'snothing for an intelligenceperson to say about this person," said anchor Nicolle Wallace. "This is a political hack ... what happensnext?"
Miller agreed, saying that he is likely the most unqualified Cabinet-level nominee in the history of the United States, even including Pete Hegseth, who at least served in the military before being tapped for Secretary of Defense. "Bill Pulte has no experience bythis at all. Calling him apolitical hack is even, youknow, kind of too kind to him."
"It's mean to us political hacks!" chimed in Wallace, to general laughter around the panel.
Worse, Miller continued, "he was a corrupt grifter" whose main experience before Trump appointed him to head up housing finance was pushing "meme stocks" and "crypto rug pulls."
Then, he said, at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, "The main thinghe did was use his access to mortgage documents. He alsomade himself the head ofFreddie and Fannie to go afterTrump's political foes. I mean,that's like the extent of hispolitical work actually, goingafter political foes withdubious attacks based on theway that they filed theirmortgage documents." That, he said, is the extent of his experience in government operations.
And that's probably by design, Miller added.
"Idon't think that he's in thisjob to actually do the job ofthe Director of NationalIntelligence," said Miller, speculating that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other high-ranking officials will do that job for him. Rather, "I think he's in there to do thedirty work, to do the sole jobof now using his expandedaccess to the information aboutAmericans to try to go afterDonald Trump's political foes.I think that will be basicallyhis only duty there."