Trump Abruptly Drops John Ratcliffe As DNI Nominee Amid Political Headwinds
The president's Republican allies in the Senate never appeared to warm up to the Texas congressman, and news reports suggested he had overstated his terrorism-fighting qualifications.
Updated at 4:32 p.m. ET
President Trump abruptly dropped his intention to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, to serve as director of national intelligence on Friday.
Coolness from Senate Republicans and reports in the press about past overstatements regarding Ratcliffe's record appear to have prompted the White House to calculate that it was wiser to cut bait now than try to press ahead against those headwinds.
that Ratcliffe had been treated "unfairly" in media
