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Republican lawmaker Ratcliffe withdrawing as intel chief nominee: Trump

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US President Donald Trump said Friday that Congressman John Ratcliffe, his nominee to be the next Director of National Intelligence, was withdrawing from consideration.

Trump said Ratcliffe, a Republican lawmaker from Texas, was pulling his name out because he was "being treated very unfairly by the LameStream Media."

Trump said he would announce a new nominee shortly to replace Dan Coats as head of the 17 agencies that make up the US intelligence community.

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First Published: Aug 03 2019 | 12:10 AM IST

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