Insiders Reveal White House ‘Scrambled’ To Keep Trump From Endangering Intel Analysts In Election Speech

Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump

Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte was eager to use President Donald Trump‘s election fraud speech to the nation as a chance to name intelligence analysts accused of hiding “election interference” from the president — and got Trump “all spun up” before backing down.

Sources told Politico Pulte’s push to name names sent senior officials in the White House “scrambling.”

They urged Pulte to consider that naming intelligence analysts could put people in danger and prompt “conspiracy theorists to take the law into their own hands,” Politico reported Saturday.

The outlet further reported:

“Pulte got really scared by the whole thing and pulled back,” said one of the two senior officials. “He got POTUS all spun up and then was incredibly scared when he realized people could die with his reckless behavior.”

Simultaneously, several Trump officials urged the president to remain restrained and on script, a notoriously difficult task for the president, whose aides often learn what the president is going to say as he says it.

“They explained the way to be taken seriously is not to be crazy,” the senior official told POLITICO.

Trump boasted his speech would be “really, really big news” but the Thursday address was slammed as “dangerous”  and sparked massive backlash.

In the speech Trump claimed his administration had discovered “burn bags” from former President Barack Obama’s administration and demanded a criminal investigation into what the president described as a potential “cover-up.”

He pointed the finger at foreign powers such as China, claiming they’d attempted to interfere with American elections — but provided no evidence that a single vote had been changed as a result.

Even Trump’s own advisor admitted there was “zero evidence” of votes being changed.

Conservative John Solomon admitted to MS NOW’s Vaughn Hillyard after the speech, “All I can acknowledge is what the intelligence shows, right? I only know the intelligence community has zero evidence that someone, that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, ’22 or ’24.”

The White House and Pulte’s office did not immediately respond to Mediaite’s requests for comment, but a White House spokesman told Politico Congress should pass the SAVE Act, a bill which critics say would block millions from the voting booth.

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