The tides are turning against this Trump Cabinet member…
Michael Wolff, the Trump biographer who has long studied the president, revealed on The Daily Beast Podcast this week that the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is getting increasingly close to being fired.
Over the weekend, the U.S. launched an attack on three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran. Despite Trump’s declared victory, however, early intelligence assessments suggest that the strikes did not destroy the facilities at all.
“It’s always important in the Trump script, the fallback is always who to blame, who to blame,” Wolff told The Daily Beast’s Joanna Coles. “Just have to have someone to blame. Tulsi is in the line of fire.”
To Trump, he added, she is a “stooge” at this point.
Reports of the still-existent nuclear sites are at odds with Trump’s repeated claims that the strikes “completely and totally obliterated” the facilities.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN: “This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong and was classified as ‘top secret’ but was still leaked to CNN by an anonymous, low-level loser in the intelligence community.”
But now that the assessment is available for the public to judge for themselves, Wolff said that Trump is in search of someone to throw under the bus.
“There is an investigation that is going on,“ said Wolff. ”They will try to find someone to blame. Within the White House, within the West Wing, what they are saying as of this morning, who this is being pinned on, is Tulsi.”
White House staff have confirmed that the leak is already being investigated.
“President Trump’s Peace through Strength foreign policy is a tried-and-true approach that keeps America safe and deters global threats,” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung told the Daily Beast in a statement. “Efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work. President Trump has full confidence in his entire exceptional national security team. DNI Gabbard is an important member of the President’s team and her work continues to serve him and this country well.”
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Gabbard was awkwardly snubbed by President Donald Trump this week after he dismissed her Congressional testimony that countered the administration’s justification for bombing Iran.
“The intelligence community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” she said in March.
But this month, Trump publicly slammed Gabbard when her comments resurfaced.
“I don’t care what she said,” Trump said of Gabbard’s comments. “I think they were very close to having them.”
Trump later doubled down, telling reporters that Gabbard was “wrong” about the issue.
Gabbard bowed down to Trump’s assertions, quickly posting on X that the “dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division.”
Then Gabbard must go! You’re Fired!
Must be Bad to get axed really
You know, it’s good (no, necessary) to have people around who can bring you down to Earth sometimes and make you think a little about your opinion. Trump shouldn’t want the Republican world to go around rubber-stamping everything he does. Nobody questioned Stalin, or they quickly disappeared. Everyone went along with Hitler, or else! Japan’s finest committed suicide for the emperor. See what happened to that bunch. Sometimes, other opinions should be revered. I have changed opinions many times when I was able to listen to a good argument from someone else that made a lot of sense to me. Many times, I didn’t think there was any other opinions but mine (wishful thinking). You don’t need people to do your thinking for you, but an extra head or two if vital when you want to be sure of yourself. To replace Tulsi would be a huge mistake and allow voters to picture a lock-step attitude.