Tulsi Gabbard, President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is leaving a job where she was ignored and sidelined by her boss. Now, many of us have been in that position and were forced to put up with it, but Gabbard is a woman of accomplishment and even a veteran who served her country admirably.
What I remember most about her was her classic takedown of Kamala Harris during the 2020 presidential primary debates while she was still a Democrat. What a thrill to see that phoney-balogney Harris squirm.
In this case, Gabbard had the temerity, or courage depending on your viewpoint, to disagree with Sir Donald on Iran’s development of nuclear weapons capability. Before Trump began his onslaught on what was once Persia this past February, Gabbard said Iran was not actively developing a bomb following the June 2025 Midnight Hammer strike on its nuclear facilities.
“As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated,” Gabbard wrote in prepared testimony to be delivered to Congress. “There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement.”
Learning of her opinion, Trump quipped that Gabbard was “a little bit different in her thought process than me.” As a reward for her thinking differently, Trump assigned her to investigate voter fraud in Georgia. What that has to do with national intelligence gathering, only Trump knows.
Gabbard will stay through June 30. The reason for her resignation, she stated, was that her husband was battling cancer.
PICTURED: DNI Gabbard testifying before Congress.
