{"id":155300,"date":"2026-07-29T03:05:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155300"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:05:47","slug":"us-senate-confirms-clayton-as-trumps-new-spy-chiefunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155300","title":{"rendered":"US Senate confirms Clayton as Trump\u2019s new spy chiefUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe US Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Donald Trump\u2019s top intelligence official Tuesday, putting a permanent chief in charge of the country\u2019s spy agencies as the president revives unsupported election fraud claims ahead of the midterms.<br \/>\nSenators voted 51-47 to confirm Clayton\u2019s appointment, with all Democrats in the upper chamber voting against it.<br \/>\n\u201cJay is outstanding in every way, and will do a spectacular job as Director!\u201d Trump said in a post on Truth Social shortly after the vote.<br \/>\nThe former&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3362197\/us-senate-confirms-clayton-trumps-new-spy-chief?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 PostThe US Senate confirmed Jay Clayton as Donald Trump\u2019s top intelligence official Tuesday, putting a permanent chief in charge of the&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\/155300"}],"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=155300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}