[image deleted]Just to get your bottom up to speed, on 8.2.19 President Donald Trump announced that Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, his pick to become the next director of national intelligence, won’t seek the nomination after all.
It’s a stunning reversal. The president announced his selection on Sunday — just five days ago — when he also noted that America’s current top spy, Daniel Coats, was resigning. But Ratcliffe has had a tough week, with report after report showing that he exaggerated his qualifications and background.
As a result, it seems both Trump and Ratcliffe chose to pull the plug on the nomination, though the president blames the media for forcing his hand.
Ratcliffe has frequently boasted about overseeing the arrest of 300 illegal immigrants in one day at a poultry plant in 2008, a brag he even lists on his website. But the Washington Post on Thursday found that he played at best a “supporting role” in an operation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement that also involved five US attorneys’ offices in five states.
“Only 45 workers were charged by prosecutors in Ratcliffe’s office, court documents show,” the Post reported. “Six of those cases were dismissed, two of them because the suspects turned out to be American citizens.”
“Two people involved in the planning or execution of the enforcement effort said they could not recall Ratcliffe playing a central role,” the report continued.
Bottom line, your man Radcliffe is a LIAR just like Traitor Trump. https://www.vox.com/2019/8/2/20752023/john-ratcliffe-withdraws-intelligence-director-trump
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