Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence (DNI), refused to say Tuesday whether he agreed with the Intelligence Community’s (IC) assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to help the president.
Both the IC and the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections to favor Trump. The House Intelligence Committee’s Republican majority concluded in 2018 that Russia interfered in the elections, but did not conclude this was to favor Trump, an analysis Democratic members of the committee disagreed with.
When asked about his thoughts on these conclusions by Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) during his nomination hearing, Ratcliffe would not commit to one side.
Ratcliffe said that while he had “no reason to dispute” the Senate panel’s findings, he also would not dispute the House Intelligence Committee’s conclusions, a panel on which Ratcliffe serves.
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#BREAKING: Intelligence chief nominee Ratcliffe refuses to say whether or not Russian election interference favored Trump https://t.co/2JaJQUqodX pic.twitter.com/uWYgfeR8cu
— The Hill (@thehill) May 5, 2020
John Ratcliffe, like Trump, has attacked our intelligence community and called the men & women who work there the “deep state.” He’s not qualified. He’s a total Trump toadie. This is like putting @DevinNunes in charge of our intelligence. https://t.co/tjtTAgRwPv
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) May 5, 2020
Radcliffe is a Trumpist hack lacking significant #natsec experience who has no business being DNI. This isn't complicated.
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 5, 2020
If there were Senators on the committee who understand what is really at stake, they would ask Ratcliffe one question:
You have promoted the QAnon conspiracy. Do you believe that a cabal of democratic cannibal-pedophiles are conspiring to end America? Please explain.
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) May 5, 2020
No competent Administration would even consider someone like Ratcliffe for such an important position. He has no experience, is a partisan extremist, has difficulty with the truth, consorts with fringe conspiracy theorists, & never run a large organization. Otherwise… https://t.co/7EvzuRdkw7
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) May 5, 2020
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