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Trump Abruptly Drops John Ratcliffe As DNI Nominee Amid Political Headwinds
By: Philip Ewing | NPR
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The president’s Republican allies in the Senate never appeared to warm up to the Texas congressman and press reports suggested he’d overstated his terrorism-fighting qualifications.