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From Fox News: John Ratcliffe, who served as President-elect Trump’s principal intelligence advisor during his first presidential term, will serve as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency when Trump moves back into the White House.
Ratcliffe is one of several appointees announced in the past week who will fill key positions during Trump’s second term.
“From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public,” Trump said in a statement. “When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People.”
Trump honored Ratcliffe in 2020 with the National Security Medal, the highest honor for distinguished achievement in the field of intelligence and national security.
Ratcliffe, from Texas, served as Trump’s director of national intelligence from 2020 to 2021.
Prior to that, he served in U.S. Congress from 2015 to 2020.
Ratcliffe also served as Mayor of Heath, Texas, from 2004 to 2012 and acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas from May 2007 to April 2008.
NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of @JohnRatcliffe as Director of the CIA. pic.twitter.com/RDjvlhyohl
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 12, 2024
.@JohnRatcliffe was one of the few who stood up and told the truth about the Russian Laptop Hoax.
Will he release the Epstein, JFK, & Diddy files? pic.twitter.com/1ts0efJFMk
— Bob’s News (@dyversityhire) November 12, 2024
🚨 BREAKING: Trump announces his new CIA DIRECTOR – John Ratcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence.
“From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBI’s abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always… pic.twitter.com/VvZJhE6hMH
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 12, 2024
John Ratcliffe named Trump‘s CIA Director pic.twitter.com/RDmzfAmlyi
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) November 12, 2024
BREAKING: Trump picks former intel director John Ratcliffe to head the CIAhttps://t.co/KJyRYlS87R
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 12, 2024
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