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Dan Coats Expected to Step Down as Intelligence Chief
By Maggie Haberman, Julian E. Barnes and Peter Baker
July 28, 2019
WASHINGTON — Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is expected to step down in the coming days after spending his tenure at odds with President Trump over issues including Russia and Mr. Trump’s own attacks on the intelligence community, people familiar with the decision said on Sunday.
To replace him, the people said, the president was likely to tap Representative John Ratcliffe, a Texas Republican and staunch defender of Mr. Trump. As a member of the House Judiciary Committee, he sharply questioned Robert S. Mueller III, the former special counsel, at last week’s hearing. Still, it was not certain who the replacement would be, as Mr. Trump increasingly has a cabinet filled with “acting” appointees.
Mr. Coats has long been expected to depart of his own accord, an administration official said, but he ended up staying on longer so it would not seem as if he was forced out during a time of controversy with Mr. Trump. His precise departure date remained unclear on Sunday.
Mr. Trump’s frustration with Mr. Coats was reignited in recent months, during spring weekends spent at his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., according to people who spoke with him at the time.
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