Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On Trump Weakening Our National Security By Installing Bill Pulte As Acting DNI

Washington, D.C. - Today, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke on the Senate floor blasting Donald Trump for appointing shameless grifter Bill Pulte as Acting DNI, a move which led to the purging of intelligence experts at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

There are reports that Tulsi Gabbard was receiving instructions from a so-called guru and repeating them word for word. That ought to concern all of us if it's true.

No one knows who this guru really is, what his connections are, and where the instructions came from. Maybe it was completely innocent, or maybe not - but we need answers.

In appointing Bill Pulte to serve as Acting DNI after Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's replacing a guru with a grifter.

Bill Pulte doesn't have an ounce of national security experience or an ounce of integrity, and he's already started to purge the intelligence experts who have that integrity.

God only knows what Pulte plans to do next. Will Pulte interfere in our elections? Expose intelligence sources? Abuse Americans' private data? Go after Trump's political enemies like he's done so many times before?

With his insistence on installing Pulte, Trump has embarrassed his own party, weakened our national security, and endangered the American people - all to serve his personal political interests.

When it comes to protecting America's national security, we need an adult in the room, and Pulte's removing them left and right.

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