President Donald Trump has urged his new intelligence chief, Bill Pulte, who has no prior national security experience, to begin purging the department.

Bill Pulte has no intelligence experience. But he has proved he’ll target the president’s foes.

The reported standoff occurred during a private dinner last September, when Bessent was said to have told Bill Pulte, who is the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director, that he would punch him...