In another surprise, the president-elect named Tulsi Gabbard, who has long been accused of peddling Russian disinformation, as director of national intelligence.
: A far-right Republican who was investigated for sex crimes and was also responsible for a leadership coup that paralysed the US Congress for weeks has been nominated by Donald Trump to be America’s new attorney-general.
While Gaetz did not end up being charged, McCarthy believes the case was partly the reason the Florida congressman moved to oust him – although Gaetz denies this.Credit:“Because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17-year-old; an ethics complaint that started before I ever became Speaker. And that’s illegal, and I’m not going to get in the middle.
In another unexpected nomination, he also named former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard to serve as his director of national intelligence, putting a sceptic of support for Ukraine in charge of co-ordinating America’s spy agencies. She has long been accused of peddling Russian disinformation, including a debunked theory about the US operating biolabs in Ukraine, and has been embroiled in several controversies.
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