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President Trump's decision to nominate Bill Pulte as director of national intelligence caught many of his closest advisors off guard and dealt a significant blow to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with whom the Federal Housing Finance Agency head has engaged in an ongoing power struggle.

According to reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Pulte, who leads the agency overseeing the country's mortgage market, personally approached Trump with an audacious proposal: ascending to the position of director of national intelligence following Tulsi Gabbard's departure.

The nomination appears rooted not in foreign policy expertise—Pulte has none—but in what Trump prizes most: unwavering loyalty, the Journal is reporting before adding that, in pitching himself to the president, Pulte promised to become an "unyielding advocate" for Trump's foreign policy agenda and signaled support for the administration's Iran war, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

The move represents a major victory for Pulte in his internal administration battles. The Federal Housing Finance Agency director has become a deeply polarizing figure, clashing repeatedly with Trump advisers who have grown frustrated with his aggressive approach and willingness to bypass the chain of command to access the president directly.

Trump has reportedly resisted efforts by administration officials to remove Pulte, telling confidants he values the FHFA chief's loyalty above all else.

Trump "first raised the idea of appointing Pulte as intelligence director to aides over the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter," the Journal is reporting before adding that the fact that president actually pulled the trigger on Pulte's nomination, "caught them by surprise."

As for Bessent, one of the president's closest allies in the Cabinet, he was reportedly kept out of the loop, the Journal is reporting.

President Donald Trump has not appeared at a single public event in eight days — and the White House isn't saying when that will change.

Trump's last confirmed live public appearance was May 27, when he presided over a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Since then, his schedule has been a wall of closed-press policy meetings, Executive Time, and private dinners. The only glimpse of the president came via a pre-taped Fox News interview with his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump — not a public event.

President Donald Trump has faced a rare wave of bi-partisan scrutiny over his pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard, and on Wednesday, a raunchy video resurfaced that may pose even more problems for the Trump nominee.

Recorded in 2023 in Florida at a mock-stock event, Bill Pulte – the current Federal Housing Finance Agency director and Trump’s pick to become DNI – is seen on video receiving a trophy with the inscription “Bill Pulte f----.”

A rare loss by a Republican who waltzed into Tuesday's primary with a high-profile endorsement from Donald Trump has raised concerns that a change is in the air for November’s general election.

According to a report from MS NOW, authored by Hunter Woodall and Alex Tabet, the fact that Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) lost the GOP primary for Iowa governor nomination to rival Zach Lann has Republicans “anxious” about what voters want, with the added threat that Lann’s Democratic opponent might be the next governor.

The Justice Department's No. 3 official briefly admitted on X that the agency was moving to revive a controversial fund to compensate Jan. 6 defendants — then deleted the post on Wednesday.

Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. responded to a post from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a terse three-word reply — "We're on it." — before quietly scrubbing it. Politico's Josh Gerstein flagged the deletion.

President Donald Trump was pressed in an interview published on Wednesday about the soaring inflation caused by his deeply unpopular war against Iran and its impact on Americans, a line of questioning the president responded to by blurting out a blatant falsehood – one that coincided with reports that directly contradicted his claim.

“In your first term, I think that was one of the hallmarks, that peoples' wages – especially working peoples' wages – were rising much faster than inflation,” said The New York Post’s Miranda Devine in a video interview recorded in the White House.

President Donald Trump admitted in an interview published Wednesday that he lobbed expletives at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an explosive phone call on Monday, citing his growing frustration with Israel’s refusal to halt its invasion and bombardment of Lebanon as the cause for his outburst.

Details of the supposed call were first reported on by Axios, which claimed Trump had called Netanyahu “f------ crazy,” and said that “everybody hates you” and “hates Israel.” Trump also reportedly told the prime minister that he’d “be in prison if it weren’t for me,” with Netanyahu having been indicted on corruption charges by the Israeli government, and for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.

Democratic lawmakers are ready and willing to blow up a bi-partisan deal with Republicans to force President Donald Trump to abandon a controversial priority, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday, a plan in which Democrats yield extraordinary “leverage.”

That priority is the nomination of controversial Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte, who, despite having no prior intelligence or national security experience, was tapped by Trump to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte’s nomination was met with immediate backlash from Democrats, many of whom point to his history of targeting Trump’s adversaries with accusations of mortgage fraud.

Noting the massive disparity in working days between the US Senate under Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and the GOP-controlled House laboring under embattled Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Politico is reporting that time is growing short to get legislation — any legislation — voted upon.

According to Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill and Calen Razor, Johnson’s inability to get all of the factions in his caucus on the same page has led to postponed votes, which has prompted GOP lawmakers to stay home and prepare for a bruising midterm.

President Donald Trump has been on a lot of late-night posting sprees lately, and one of his biographers thinks it shows the president is spiraling from stress and anxiety.

Michael Wolff, an author who has written four books about Trump, said during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joanna Coles of The Daily Beast, that Trump's late-night post-a-thon on Truth Social illustrates the version of Trump that he doesn't want the public to see. They show the president is capable of feeling the weight of the situation he finds himself in, even if he doesn't want others to know it.