Trump chooses former intelligence chief John Ratcliffe as CIA director

President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that John Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman and director of national intelligence, would return to the executive branch as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

“From exposing fake Russian collusion as a Clinton campaign operation to exposing the FBI’s abuse of civil rights in the FISA court, John Ratcliffe has always been a fighter for truth and honesty with the American public.

When 51 intelligence officials lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, who told the truth to the American people,” Trump, 78, said in a statement.

Ratcliffe, 59, represented the Dallas suburb for more than five years before Trump appointed him to lead America’s intelligence community in May 2020.

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