Trump likes aides to tell him what he wants to hear. Will his pick for intelligence chief do likewise?
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's choice of a Republican congressman with little national security experience to serve as his top intelligence adviser is another step in his slow-motion purge of administration officials who offer facts that challenge his worldview.
Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, a former small town mayor and U.S. attorney who appears to have overstated his role in terrorism prosecutions, would replace Dan Coats, who spent more than two decades in Congress and served as ambassador to Germany before becoming the director of national intelligence.
Trump told reporters that Ratcliffe, who fiercely defended him during last week's congressional hearings with former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, would curb an intelligence community that the president has feuded with ever
