'Horrifying': Pulte's choice for top spy aide stokes fears of Trump vote tampering

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Source: MS NOW News

Jun. 27, 2026, 5:22 PM EDT


Bill Pulte, the acting director of national intelligence, has stirred fear by choosing as his chief of staff a GOP election lawyer who oversaw a poll watching program that included Jack Posobiec and other conservative conspiracy theorists. The lawyer, Christina Norton, also appears to have no experience working in the intelligence community.

“It is horrfiying,” a former senior U.S. intelligence official told MS NOW Saturday. “Not only does Norton have absolutely no background, experience or expertise in national security or intelligence, but her principal qualifications appear to be loyalty to Pulte and an embrace of absurd election-interference conspiracies.”

Pulte’s choice of Norton is also likely to increase concerns among Democrats that President Donald Trump intends to use the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to interfere in the midterm elections. Pulte, a loyalist with no intelligence experience, has used his current position as head of federal mortgage agencies to refer political rivals of the president for federal criminal prosecution. The New York Times first reported Norton’s appointment.

The former senior intelligence official, who requested anonymity due to concerns of retaliation, told MS NOW the choice also “signals as clearly as could be that Pulte has been put at ODNI to misuse the awesome power of the U.S. intelligence community to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections.”

Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/pulte-odni-spy-chief-trump-election-midterms

[Skittles]

1. only bootlickers need apply

and the efforts are going into overdrive now because they know they will be slaughtered in November unless they cheat / steal

[KS Toronado]

2. Cheeto Pedo cheats at everything, upcoming election will be no different.

Do we as a party have enough obstacles in place to counter his efforts?

[Karasu]

3. How are people not EXPECTING the most unqualified nutjobs possible by this point?

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. It's time

They start fearing us. It needs to be made abundantly clear that a vast majority of Americans will not tolerate fascists stealing our elections. Enough hand wringing. Start acting.

[red dog 1]

10. We could start acting by taking to the streets en masse

Link to tweet

[Joinfortmill]

5. We're in a goddamn mess here.

[Deep State Witch]

6. My Former Co-workers

Can't say much about the atmosphere in the IC, but the word "shitshow" has come up multiple times.

[yardwork]

7. Vote for every Democrat on your ballot this fall.

Vote for every Democrat on your ballot this November, even if you don't agree with everything about them.

[SamuelAdams]

8. Don't any Republicans care this puts us at danger?

They either feel confident no state actors or terrorists want to do us harm, or are now happy to have us attacked.

[Karasu]

11. They couldn't give less of a fuck. It's all about power for them.

[yellow dahlia]

9. This is a dangerous situation.

Our intelligence network can be misused in many ways.

AND the idea of these sycophantic nut jobs having access to such sensitive info - danger, danger, danger Will Robinson.