Ben Shapiro: Bill Pulte's DNI appointment is “just dumb,” but “it's a throwaway position that has no actual real role in the American government”
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From the June 4, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): Some actually bad Trump. This Bill Pulte pick for DNI is just dumb. I'm sorry. It's silly. And what are we doing here? Why are you taking the guy from FHFA and putting him in charge of DNI? I understand it's a throwaway position that has no actual real role in the American government, but it's like, what? Come on, man. Representative Bill Keating, Democrat of Massachusetts, was asking Secretary Rubio about this. And Secretary Rubio was quite facile, very good on his feet. Secretary Rubio was like even I — you can see Rubio is like, I want no part of this. I am nope. Nope.