Derek Thompson

Hello and welcome to the Bullard Podcast.

I'm your host, Tim Miller.

There is so much political news on this Tuesday.

We've got primaries tonight in Iowa, a big Senate primary, California, governor and mayor's primary, also New Jersey, Montana, and New Mexico.

Right as we started taping as well, Donald Trump...

appointed his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bill Pulte, to serve as director of national intelligence.

That's right.

Bill Pulte, the hack grifter that used to, like...

He'd be like the rich guy that gives away 500 bucks to people on Twitter if they follow him.

The same guy who was digging into the mortgages of every opponent to Donald Trump, you know, who went after Tish James and others based on their mortgages.

He is now going to be the...

DNI.

He has no intelligence experience, no experience at all.

I think it is pretty obvious why Donald Trump is putting somebody who has shown complete unapologetic shamelessness and going after his foes in a position will have access to a lot of material that will allow him to go after his foes.

It's extremely alarming.

So we'll get to Pulte, we'll get to the primaries and a bunch of other stuff on

on The Next Level, which will be out here later on Tuesday.

So make sure you're subscribed to The Next Level feed.

But on this show, we'll bring back a longtime tech culture and political writer at The Atlantic.

He's got his own sub stack now.