Bill Pulte won’t be running the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a long time, but President Donald Trump will use the acting DNI’s tenure to all but eliminate a federal agency he’s long privately despised, according to Trumpworld insiders.

Trump’s “entire political career” could be characterized as “taking on the deep state,” one former senior Trump White House aide told the Washington Examiner, “and with Pulte, you’re seeing the president take that matter into his own hands.”