President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to withhold his director of National Intelligence nominee — and keep a housing executive with no national security experience in that post indefinitely — unless senators agree to pass his voter ID bill and also confirm another of his personal lawyers to be a top federal prosecutor.
Trump told reporters at the Group of Seven summit in France that Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte, 38, could remain as acting DNI for “as long as it takes” for senators to confirm Sullivan and Cromwell law firm partner James McDonald as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
