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BumRushDaShow

(160,667 posts)
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:10 PM Jun 2025

'She's Wrong': Trump Directly Rebukes Tulsi Gabbard Amid Reports She's on the Outs

Source: MEDIAite

Jun 20th, 2025, 4:11 pm


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.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/shes-wrong-trump-directly-rebukes-tulsi-gabbard-amid-reports-shes-on-the-outs/





(looks like she'll be headed for the exits assuming Pootie throws her under the bus for not being "red sparrow" enough)
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BoRaGard

(7,586 posts)
1. Which republicon is lying?
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:21 PM
Jun 2025

Or could it be both? That's likely, of course.

But my hunch is that Tulsi is actually spewing what the intelligence reports say,
and that Krasnov is pissed because it doesn't match his desired gambit.

With such a substantive track record of abject lies, Krasnov gets the fugly finger
this time for this particular set of G.O.P. lies.

Qutzupalotl

(15,511 posts)
2. I have a hunch that since Russia is an ally of Iran,
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:34 PM
Jun 2025

and Tulsi is Putin's pawn, she was motivated to get the intel statement out before the war drums started. I'm still not sure about Iran's nuclear weapon development status.

I don't know why Trump is more allied with Netanyahu than Putin now. I can only speculate that Bibi's kompromat is somehow worse.

slightlv

(6,614 posts)
5. Bibi has greased trumps palms better, one way or another,
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 07:23 PM
Jun 2025

than putin at this point, is my guess. And no matter how hard I try, I can't feel any pity for tulsi... even tho she is, like so many others, thrown under the bus automatically because she's female. But she's as stupid and as much a russian agent as Krasnov!

chowder66

(11,331 posts)
3. Trump trusts strongmen over anyone else. Netanyahu and Putin. Though it looks like maybe Netanyahu is replacing Putin
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 06:35 PM
Jun 2025

as Trump's newest bestie aka beastie.

slightlv

(6,614 posts)
4. Man, same type of situation as with bush and cheney.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 07:21 PM
Jun 2025

At least they had the intelligence to work the "intelligence." I still pity Colin Powell. They ruined that man... as well as cost the lives of how many of our intelligence assets in the field?!

BoRaGard

(7,586 posts)
8. The My Lai massacre ruined Powell long before Bush and Cheney went All-Republicon on him
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 06:40 AM
Jun 2025

He will live in infamy, like so many republicans who have
violated the Constitution and lied to the American people.

Snarkoleptic

(6,191 posts)
6. Donold is conflicted as his pal Putin gets loads of Shahed drones and drone tech from Iran.
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 08:38 PM
Jun 2025

He's struggling to find a path to subservience to both Bibi and Vlad.
The intel/kompromat those guys must have on him must be damning.

JohnnyRingo

(20,171 posts)
7. Let's see... Who's next at Fox News to join the team?
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 02:33 AM
Jun 2025

She's gone.
He loves attractive women, so Laura Ingraham is out. haha

Ray Bruns

(5,621 posts)
11. She's already changed her tune and is now saying that Iran was a few weeks from building a bomb,
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 05:27 PM
Jun 2025
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