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Trump says Pulte won’t be the ‘permanent’ director of national intelligence 71%
6/4/2026, 4:38:34 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 26 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 22.2% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 777 faulty-reasoning hits from 302 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 63.3% and a BS Rank of 71% (6,503 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 70.30% of the video peer group.
Mr. President, you announced just a few days ago that you're naming Bill Polti as the acting director of national intelligence.
There's been a little bit of a pushback from some Senate Republicans.
Why do you think, Mr. President, he's the best person for the job?
>> Well, he's very smart.
He's a person who's got high integrity.
He's done a phenomenal job at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
Uh, you know, you probably have a trillion dollars in value there.
When he took over, it was much less.
And And he built it up a lot.
Did a great job.
And it's an acting position.
It's not a permanent He's not going to be permanent because, you know, I don't think he'd want to be permanent.
But he's a very smart guy.
And he may find out some things about the rigged elections, etc., etc.
I think he'd like to do it.
I'd like to I think he wants to do it very much.
Got a lot of energy.
Uh, but he'll be very good.
Uh, again, it's not a permanent position.
We're looking at We're interviewing people right now.
But it's uh somebody just to take it over for a little while.
>> Does he have the necessary, in your view, Mr. President, the necessary national security experience to take on that role?
>> Well, I do.
And I think he does, actually, because he's smart. Because a lot of national security I look I would.
I wasn't greatly experienced in national security. And I think I've done a really great job with it.
A lot of people would say that.
I've ended eight wars.
And uh soon to be a ninth.
I hope that works out, too, you know.
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