July 6,2026, x.com/FloppingAces
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They really thought they could just wait him out again.
For years, the intelligence community’s strategy with Trump was simple: slow everything down, bury him in process, leak when necessary, and run out the clock. They knew he wouldn’t be there forever. All they had to do was survive him.
So when Bill Pulte showed up as acting DNI, they went back to the same playbook. They’d treat him like the last guy … a temporary inconvenience. Give him incomplete pictures, drag their feet on requests, hide behind “we’re just following process,” and wait for the political winds to shift again. They even laughed about it. “This isn’t a guy who is familiar with intelligence,” one of them sneered.
They genuinely believed the old rules still applied.
They were wrong.
Trump v. Slaughter didn’t just change a legal precedent … it removed the shield they’d been hiding behind for decades. Schedule F didn’t just reorganize some boxes on an org chart … it gave the executive branch the ability to actually remove people who refuse to do their jobs.
So instead of waiting Pulte out, dozens of them got termination notices in a single weekend.
This wasn’t the usual four-year game of bureaucratic attrition. This time, the people who spent years perfecting the art of slow-walking and passive resistance got removed before they could finish the job.
The old strategy is dead. You don’t get to wait out the President anymore. Not when the legal tools finally exist to stop you.
They tried to play the long game.
They lost in record time.
