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According to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman<\/u>, the Iran war \u201cdebacle\u201d has \u201cclearly broken\u201d President Donald Trump, and as a result, the commander-in-chief has \u201cgiven up governing\u201d to focus exclusively on his true priorities: \u201crage and revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The latest evidence of this is tthat Trump has tapped Bill Pulte as the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a role that is vital to the country\u2019s national security apparatus. As Krugamn writes, \u201cThe word \u2018acting\u2019 is crucial. The statute<\/u> creating the position of DNI explicitly requires that the appointee \u2018shall have extensive national security expertise.\u2019\u201d Pulte has none. A home building baron and current head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, he has zero background in intelligence. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut pointing out that Pulte is unqualified for his new job doesn\u2019t convey the extent to which Trump is trolling America with this new appointment,\u201d says Krugman. \u201cFor Pulte isn\u2019t merely unqualified for a sensitive national security position. He\u2019s unqualified, intellectually and morally, for any government position. All he has are the qualifications that matter to Trump: he is a shameless lackey and willing hitman for Trump\u2019s vendettas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Part of what brought Pulte into Trump\u2019s orbit where the \u201cthousands of nasty political posts\u201d he spewed onto social media in recent years. His family\u2019s background in residential construction garnered him an appointment as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, but according to Krugman, \u201cHis real job has been weaponizing the agency as a tool against Trump\u2019s perceived enemies \u2014 weaponization that is being investigated by the Government Accountability Office as a potential misuse of authority<\/u>. Pulte confected false claims<\/u> of mortgage fraud to try to push out Lisa Cook, the only black woman on the Federal Reserve Board. He has leveled similar trumped-up charges against Letitia James, New York\u2019s Attorney General, and several Democratic politicians. And he pushed groundless fraud accusations against Jerome Powell, the former Federal Reserve chair, who stood in the way of Trump\u2019s attempt to politicize monetary policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Pulte has turned out to be a \u201cbumbling hatchet man\u201d whose efforts have been entirely ineffective is besides the point, says Krugman. \u201cFor Trump, willingness to engage in unethical behavior is all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even so, Krugman expresses surprise that Trump would select someone with such vanishing experience considering the fact that, at the very least, the president \u201csees wars only as ways to enrich himself and distract from his domestic woes,\u201d and to that end, one would think he\u2019d want accurate intelligence. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut Trump appears to have given up on governing,\u201d asserts Krugman, \u201ceven governing aimed at consolidating his own power and legacy. He wants to punish everyone he imagines has wronged him but has lost all interest in making the government work, even for nefarious purposes. So he don\u2019t need no intelligence, just someone who will indulge his rage. And that will be Pulte\u2019s job.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Krugman warns that the Republican Party and its megadonors are still working hard to corrupt American democracy, dismantle the country\u2019s scientific community, and consolidate power for billionaires, he concludes that \u201cTrump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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