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Former President Donald Trump has selected John Ratcliffe to be director of the CIA in his new administration, reported RealClearPolitics’ Philip Melanchthon Wegmann on Tuesday evening. Ratcliffe, a controversial loyalist, previously served as Director of National Intelligence in the original Trump administration. In the announcement, Trump specifically fingered Ratcliffe toeing the GOP line on the Hunter Biden laptop story as the reason he got the job. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. “When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’…