Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 06/20/2025 2:17:21 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump directly rebuked Tulsi Gabbard, his own director of national intelligence, during a Q&A with reporters on Friday afternoon amid reports that she’s an increasingly irrelevant figure within his administration.
After being asked by MSNBC’s Vaughn Hillyard about why he was considering a strike on Iran given his expressed opposition to the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, Trump stated that Iran had gathered “a tremendous amount of [nuclear] material.”
“What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community has said they have no evidence that they are at this point,” followed up Hillyard.
“Well, then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?” shot back Trump.
“Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,” observed the reporter.
“She’s wrong,” replied Trump matter-of-factly.
The commander-in-chief’s dismissal of Gabbard comes just a few days after Politico reported that Gabbard was on the outs.
From its story on Trump’s disillusionment with his intel chief:
At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers” — and that the world is “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”
Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according to three people familiar with the episode — two of them inside the administration and all granted anonymity to describe sensitive dynamics.
“I don’t think he dislikes Tulsi as a person … But certainly the video made him not super hot on her … and he doesn’t like it when people are off message,” one senior administration official told the outlet.
Vice President JD Vance, the leading isolationist voice inside the administration, sent an unprompted statement to Politico at the time that read: “Tulsi Gabbard is a veteran, a patriot, a loyal supporter of President Trump, and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024.”
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
That's merely shooting the messenger. It's not Politico or Mediaite or The Daily Worker or The New York Times or Miamirebel who is saying he has no confidence in her. It is President Trump himself.
In the geopolitics of today, perhaps the top job of the DNI is providing an accurate assessment of the nuclear threat from Iran. If the C-in-C has no confidence in the current DNI, now would be the time to replace her.
Go! Really, Tulsi, Go away!!!!
Open bickering amongst staffers is a definite NO NO.
That being said, whoever coming from Hawahoo was worth a damn?
Pass the Spam.
No matter what she erred talking without WH approval.
Mountain meet molehill, media spin.
Sadly predictable.
The description I heard of her video is childish.
his vitriol towards her, Rand Paul, Tucker Carlson, and so on is getting ridiculous
he needed a big tent to win. he seems to be forgetting this
Bullocks. Since when does the DNI need a Mother May I to speak?
Doesn’t President Trump and Tulsi Gabbard get their intelligence from the same source?
Her video that people want a nuclear holocaust because their families have fallout shelters.
Sounds like she watched the Fallout series. Which is excellent BTW.
But yeah I don’t think I’d like a destroyed world because I could live in a friggin basement.
Exactly.
There is a good possibility she is being lied to by her own agency. Do you really believe the anti Trumpers have been purged?
Good question!
All of you are so misinformed. The media is asking the question, A) ... B) Tulsi said that they didn't have intelligence of a nucellar bomb, but they were enriching much more than someone needing it for anything other. (Not exact quote, but it means the same thing. Look it up)
The media just took part of it and ran with it. President Trump, not hearing her comment, was relying only on what the media said. (that she said)— Lana (@Lana40) June 20, 2025
This seems silly. Presidents have gotten pissed at cabinet and staff for hundreds of years. This is an administration where the media will jump on every single occurrence.
When they veer away from their boss’s policy.
When did she speak without approval? She presented a report to the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on March 25, which Trump agreed with at the time, that Iran had not pursued nuclear weapons since 2003.
So what intel report did Trump get that she did not?
“President Trump, not hearing her comment...”
President Trump isn’t aware of public comments of his own DNI? ?
Rand is a jerk, always dissatisfied and never a solution. Tucker is a goofball who was never MAGA, just a guy in search of an audience after he got fired. Tulsi is more problematic. You can view her as a total opportunist, or, someone who gave up a lot to join the MAGA movement. Either way it is not a good look for either of them.
Pretty much my take on all of this.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.