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Rachel Leingang

Jay Clayton: Trump pick has long legal résumé but few intelligence credentials

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Jay Clayton before a Senate hearing in December 2019. Photograph: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images

Days before he was nominated as director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton discussed the potential of fraud in California’s elections, falsely saying the state’s laws left open the “opportunity for fraud”.

Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District and the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has a lengthy legal résumé in the private and public sector and a track record of unequivocal support for Donald Trump and his agenda.

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