President Trump was close to nominating Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) as director of national intelligence, Bloomberg reports.
“But that idea was scrapped when Trump learned of a 2016 video clip in which Stewart said ‘Donald Trump does not represent Republican ideals, he is our Mussolini.'”
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