Trump’s DNI pick grilled about election security, voter fraud
Senators pressed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton about his stance on the 2020 election and previous statements about voter fraud. Other issues took a back seat.
Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, on Wednesday sought to allay concerns about his independence, while offering muddled answers on who won the 2020 election and past statements about voter fraud.
Pressed at his confirmation hearing by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, resisted taking firm stands on election security matters that have divided Capitol Hill and could offend Trump, including whether Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential race.
“I am bitterly disappointed. We've tried umpteen different ways to give you the ability to just acknowledge that Joe Biden was the president,” Mark Warner (VA), the panel’s top Democrat, said near the end of the roughly two-hour session.
Source: https://therecord.media/jay-clayton-odni-nominee-senate-confirmation-hearing
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