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Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard The director of national intelligence has rankled Trump with her statements about nuclear war, and the president has suggested she’s off message.
Politico ^ | June 17, 2025 | Rachael Bade, Amy Mackinnon, Felicia Schwartz and John Sakellariadis

Posted on 06/17/2025 9:08:58 PM PDT by Miami Rebel

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Internal dissent is fine, but to pontificate publicly about peace when the C-in-C is contemplating waging war is an insane overreach.

"...as we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before, political elite warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.”

She wasn't talking about Iranian or Israeli or Ukrainian or Russian warmongers. She was talking about other advisors to the President.

If she finds our policy indefensible, she should take the principled course that William Jennings Bryan did in 1917, when he resigned as Secretary of State when Woodrow Wilson dragged us into war.

1 posted on 06/17/2025 9:08:58 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

maga is imploding? 🥺


2 posted on 06/17/2025 9:17:10 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Miami Rebel

It took four people (Rachael Bade, Amy Mackinnon, Felicia Schwartz and John Sakellariadis) to write the article. Why?


3 posted on 06/17/2025 9:19:33 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. Onw!as a cylindrical object)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

It took 4 parrots to write this article.

Wonder why?


4 posted on 06/17/2025 9:20:13 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: Miami Rebel

She was talking about the Deep State.


5 posted on 06/17/2025 9:20:16 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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To: Miami Rebel
Israel and American intel may be different and Gabbard may have been pointing that out.

That said, at some point we were going to have to deal with Iran. It's a bad idea for the Mullahs to have nukes.

I think the media is trying to stir the pot. Nothing new.

6 posted on 06/17/2025 9:20:56 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: BrexitBen

The first 3 stenographers’ fax machines fried?


7 posted on 06/17/2025 9:23:57 PM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Israel and American intel may be different...”

You have no idea what “differences” she was pointing out and neither does anyone else because she didn’t enumerate any. We don’t know if there are any and, if there are, the DNI should not share any with the public.

She made a political speech. THAT IS NOT HER JOB. On top of which, the President explicitly stated he doesn’t care what she says.

For all the damage control, she is finished.


8 posted on 06/17/2025 9:27:39 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel
the usual suspects trying to so dissension again..Bolton etc need to STFU
9 posted on 06/17/2025 9:28:20 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Miami Rebel
That's it!

Trump needs to fire Tulsi,replace with the walrus, and from now on run it by politico and a copy to miami rebel for dissemination.

10 posted on 06/17/2025 9:28:38 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Miami Rebel

Hire a Bernie Babe.
..get a Bernie Babe.


11 posted on 06/17/2025 9:28:53 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Miami Rebel
She made a political speech. THAT IS NOT HER JOB.

Need more sources to confirm.

12 posted on 06/17/2025 9:29:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: CatHerd

“She was talking about the Deep State.”

I don’t care if she was talking about the 1972 Dolphins.

HER JOB DOES NOT INCLUDE PUBLIC PRONOUNCEMENTS except when directed by the President or in testifying to Congress.

The President has very clearly stated his determination to bring Teheran to its knees, by force if necessary. “Force if necessary” = War.

Now more than ever it is utterly inappropriate to be tossing about a term which Massie and Carlson and the Democrats are weaponizing against President Trump.


13 posted on 06/17/2025 9:31:58 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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Sorry- this is a long, overly written and poorly constructed narrative from the a@2holes at Politico- a RAG of a publication of completely owned derp state wannabees and hirelings.

There is NO division between Trump and Gabbard. The start of this crap was complete misquoting, done again in this posting, to which Gabbards reply re: March statement— was to say “it would help if the media would write what my statement actually was, instead of making up non existent sentences and positions. The President and I are on the same page.

FRiend, the CinC is NOT contemplating war— far from it. He is engineering policy and support for Israel’s needed actions. He is helping as a good ally. We are NOT- despite all the efforts of Bolton (the real warmonger) and that IDIOT Mike Pence to drag us into a theater war WHILE Trump is trying to negotiated the peace in the perpetual existing graft/grift war in Ukraine. This is the real threat to ALL of the trough eating useless dingleberrys who have profited for years off the Ukraine corrupt skim and money down a rat hole— making money off the skim with lots of mouths open (McConnell, Graham, and a host of Demonrat morons who continue to Zeep away and react to the grifted funds uncovered by DOGE, shut down and to be clawed back into general revenue by recission).

Honestly— William Jenning Bryan in 1917 bears no resemblance whatsoever to this situation. Israel is able to handle its own anti-Iran policies with the existing good support and zero involvement of US forces except aiding in the “eyes in the sky” and intel support. Absolutely silly comparison also as Trump is not, and never would be a Woodrow Wilson clown democrat. Never.


14 posted on 06/17/2025 9:33:11 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: markman46

It wasn’t Bolton who said, “I don’t care what she said.”

Your issue is with the President, not John Bolton.


15 posted on 06/17/2025 9:33:54 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

This is false.


16 posted on 06/17/2025 9:35:47 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Miami Rebel; All

Yeah, strange that a cabinet level official is posting a 3 minute end-of-the-world video w/o running it past her boss first.

Reminds me of the DNC’s “Daisy Girl”/”Peace, Little Girl,” anti-Goldwater vote for Johnson ad/commercial:

https://youtu.be/riDypP1KfOU?si=z1l3QRmbcd1ENCIc

(Tulsi Gabbard’s video here): https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1932368919039459348


17 posted on 06/17/2025 9:37:03 PM PDT by Drago
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To: BrexitBen

everything’s been feeling off ever since the Trump v. Musk feud.


18 posted on 06/17/2025 9:39:24 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Miami Rebel

““She shouldn’t be in that job,” Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, who had his own falling out with Trump, said Tuesday.”

Well that settles it. If Politico and Bolton oppose her, she must be bad. lol


19 posted on 06/17/2025 9:41:19 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: Miami Rebel

It might be an accurate story, but if it’s from Politico (or any MSM yellow journalism sheet), I’d treat it as probable B.S.
Intended to foster dissent, and spread FUD in the ranks.


20 posted on 06/17/2025 9:41:24 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved)
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