With Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard departing the administration, President Donald Trump needed to find a new acting DNI to replace her. Now that he has named Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte to the role, we can reasonably reverse-engineer the 11 must-have qualifications Trump must have had for the job, and as you can see below, Pulte checks every box.
Pulte definitely meets this requirement, having never done anything in any field that even remotely resembles working with U.S. intelligence, national security, foreign policy, or anything else a DNI works on.
The 38-year-old real estate scion, whose grandfather was home-construction magnate and PulteGroup founder William Pulte, started his own private equity fund in his early 20s, then moved into the family business and eventually became a prolific tweeter and Trump pal and donor. After returning to the White House, Trump nominated the Mar-a-Lago member as the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Pulte then purged staff and appointed himself chair of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Here are the credentials Trump highlighted in his announcement:
William has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the Markets, and over 10 Trillion Dollars at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago.
