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5 things you need to know about John Ratcliffe, Trump's 'hawk' at the head of the CIA

2024-11-13 23:11:26Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
5 things you need to know about John Ratcliffe, Trump's 'hawk' at
John Ratcliffe

A spy at the head of the most powerful and famous spy agency in the world. In his cast of institutional appointments for the next presidency, Donald Trump has chosen the "hawk" John Ratcliffe to lead the CIA.

Director of national intelligence in the final months of the tycoon's first term, the nearly 60-year-old former Texas congressman led the US government's spy agencies during the Covid pandemic.

One of his primary responsibilities was also to identify and thwart foreign attempts to interfere in American politics.

A choice definitely more traditional than others, announced by the president-elect, such as that of the TV presenter, Pete Hegseth as the head of the Pentagon.

Against Iran

As the number one intelligence officer, in 2020 Ratcliffe attended an unusual late-night press conference a few weeks before the presidential election that would bring Biden victory.

Along with other officials, the Trump "hawk" accused Iran of being responsible for a barrage of e-mails aimed at intimidating voters in the United States.

A detail that confirms what the new American stance will be toward Tehran, whose regime will need to be weakened to prevent its nuclear buildup and weaken its ability to support Israel's Shiite enemies.

Against China

Before becoming a Donald loyalist, the Texas Republican had been an "ordinary" member of Congress since 2014.

He later carved a niche for himself as an ardent defender of Trump during the former president's first impeachment proceedings.

He also repeatedly raised the alarm about China, calling the People's Republic the main threat to the interests of the United States and the rest of the free world.

That view puts him in good company with other Trump administration officials, including National Security Adviser-elect Michael Waltz, who has called for the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of China's involvement in the spread of the coronavirus and the ethnic cleansing of the Uighur minority.

"The intelligence is clear: Beijing aims to dominate the United States and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically," Ratcliffe wrote in a December 2020 Wall Street Journal article.

Ratcliffe's fight against impeachment of Trump

"This is the most crooked, the fastest, the weakest impeachment that our country has ever seen," Ratcliffe said after the Democratic-controlled House voted to impeach Trump in connection with a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. with the investigation against Hunter Biden.

Ratcliffe tried to dig into the affairs of Joe Biden's son, Hunter, winning the billionaire's praise for his ability to stand up to the apparatus, mainly the Secret Service and the FBI.

When former special counsel Robert Mueller appeared before the House Judiciary Committee to testify about Russian interference in the 2016 election, Ratcliffe was one of the most vocal Republican investigators. He forcibly interrogated the prosecutor in order to destroy the prosecution system.

A Trump loyalist

In 2019, Trump proposed the name of John Ratcliffe to "Dni" (Director of National Intelligence) for the first time, instead of Dan Coats.

But Democrats openly dismissed the Republican as an "unquestionable partisan" and Republicans were quiet in promoting his nomination.

At the time, some media questioned Ratcliffe's qualifications, alleging that the congressman had falsified his experience as a federal prosecutor in Texas. He was nominated again the following February and confirmed in May 2020 by a sharply divided Senate.

Fate written in the name

It looks like a game, but in America these things are taken more seriously than they deserve. John Ratcliffe is named precisely – first and last name – as an important English explorer and politician who contributed to the prosperity of the British colonies on American soil between the 16th and 17th centuries.

Before becoming governor of Virginia, John Ratcliffe (1549-1609) was commander of the mythological Discovery, the English sailing ship that founded Jamestown and transported thousands of settlers to the New World.

Perhaps many have not realized it, but they have already come across the name of John Ratcliffe in the role of the governor of Virginia: in the Disney animated film "Pocahontas", he is the bad guy who prevents the love between the native and the sailor of the writer John Smith.

In historical reality, Ratcliffe drew the ire of many colonists for the way he handled trade with the natives and for his behavior regarding food shortages during the summer of 1608.

And this is where John Smith came into play, whom he really asked to arrange the details in the work and trading expeditions with the Native Americans.

By January 1608, only forty colonists remained alive. The survivors lost faith in the governor, who nevertheless returned to office the following year. Invited to a meeting with the Powhatan Indian tribe, Ratcliffe and his men were ambushed.


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