More bizarre antics resurface about Trump's controversial pick for spy chief: report

More bizarre antics resurface about Trump's controversial pick for spy chief: report
FILE PHOTO: Bill Pulte, nominated to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, testifies during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025. REUTERS/Annabelle Gordon/File Photo

Trump's pick to temporarily take over as the country's top spy chief had a bizarre past, according to reports that dug up his old antics.

Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte used to host an event where people were slapped with sex toys, according to reporting by The Daily Beast. He was also accused of influencing Trump's posting of a Christ-like image of himself earlier this year, The Beast added.

Pulte, who's also the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, appeared at an event with internet influencer PP from "ThePPShow" and was awarded a novelty trophy saying "Bill Pulte F—" on one side and "Only the Young" on the other side, according to The Daily Beast, which noted it was in part a reference to a Taylor Swift song.

In a resurfaced video of the event, Pulte blurted out “I like only the young,” before exclaiming that the trophy “looks pretty bad—” as it was handed to him. He then dropped it after getting “too excited,” he said in the video.

He was pressured off the board of Pulte Homes, his grandfather's company, because of his self-promotion, the New York Times reported.

Pulte, who used to hold shares of Bed Bath & Beyond, wore bulletproof vests, saying he was afraid that anti-Bed Bath & Beyond forces might try to kill him, the Beast reported. He tried to claim the company wasn't really bankrupt and could still be saved in 2023, but the company went bankrupt anyway that year, The Bulwark reported.

The FHFA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence didn't respond to The Daily Beast's request for comments.

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President Donald Trump has reached a "moment of demarcation" that signals the end of his presidency is near, according to one of the president's biographers.

Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, noted during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump has had a "rough couple of weeks" as his losses continue to pile up. Wolff pointed to issues such as Congress curtailing his war powers in Iran, and his seeming inability to escape the Jeffrey Epstein saga.

"I've more and more understood this and appreciated this, and I think it's an important moment. It's a moment of demarcation," Wolff said. "It's a 'two things can be true at the same time' moment. Trump is going to continue to be mendacious and dangerous and damaging to all kinds of things, but at the same time, very clearly, as clearly as can possibly be, this Trump enterprise is coming apart. And I think we're right at the center."

"And it all sort of brings this together in his falling poll numbers, the fact that he is in trouble on all of the foundational policies of his administration — that he could fix the economy," Wolff said. "Immigration was his issue, the issue that was fueling him instead of the issue that is causing him now so many problems, so many problems with his base, the health care issues also causing him problems. It's one problem after another after another that he cannot surmount."


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President Donald Trump stunned a political analyst on Thursday during a "pathetic moment" in the Oval Office.

Trump held a press conference in the Oval Office on Thursday, where he announced a new $700 billion initiative to boost coal production using the Defense Production Act. One reporter asked Trump about communism during the press conference, a topic that Trump seemed excited to discuss because he had just written a Truth Social post about it, according to David Pakman, host of the liberal political commentary show "The David Pakman Show."

"You had some stern words for communism on your Truth Social ..." the reporter began.

"I just wrote that. Did you like it? Did you think it was well written?" Trump giddily replied. "You want to read it? Do you have it? It's on Truth Social."

Trump then launched into an aside about how he's given bigger speeches than Martin Luther King Jr.

Pakman was taken aback by the affair, and shared his reaction in a new YouTube video.

"It's all completely untrue," Pakman said. "And who cares about the truth at the end of the day? Minor details."

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is now accused of making threats against a reporter who broke the story that he is under investigation at the Justice Department for insider trading.

The allegation is that Santos publicly announced he would attend President Donald Trump's most recent State of the Union Address, then placed a large bet on the gambling platform Kalshi that he would not show up, and ultimately did not show up. Kalshi froze Santos's accounts after detecting suspicious trades and referred the matter to the DOJ and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which the Trump administration uses as the regulator of choice for so-called "prediction markets."

According to NPR's Bobby Allyn, while researching the story, he reached out to Santos via email for comment and received a response from a blocked number, after which things turned aggressive.

"My lawyers have been calling the Department of Justice all day, and they can't find any investigation," Santos told him.

He then refused to consent to the call being recorded, and warned Allyn that, "this story is going to get you a gun in your face" — which Allyn interpreted as a threat on his life.

Santos, who was elected to Congress in 2022, almost immediately became a lightning rod for controversy after it emerged he had fabricated his entire campaign biography, from his ethnic background to where he went to school. He then came under federal investigation for campaign finance irregularities and fraudulent use of his campaign donors' credit cards, among other financial crimes.

He was expelled from the House in a landslide bipartisan vote in late 2023.

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