{"id":152803,"date":"2026-06-11T19:34:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152803"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:34:46","slug":"trump-taps-wall-street-top-cop-jay-clayton-as-spy-chief-after-pulte-backlashunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152803","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Wall Street top cop Jay Clayton as spy chief after Pulte backlashUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said he is nominating Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence, following controversy over his selection of housing regulator Bill Pulte to serve in the role on an acting basis.<br \/>\nClayton has been serving as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump\u2019s first term.<br \/>\n\u201cI encourage the United States Senate to confirm Jay as soon as possible,\u201d Trump said on social media.<br \/>\nTrump stunned&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3356813\/trump-taps-wall-street-top-cop-jay-clayton-spy-chief-after-pulte-backlash?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump said he is nominating Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence, following controversy over&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152803"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}