Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is taking heat—and changing her tune—after President Donald Trump publicly slammed her intelligence assessment on Iran’s nuclear ambitions. The latest twist comes as the White House faces mounting pressure over whether the U.S. will support Israeli military action against Tehran.
A Stunning Reversal in Washington
Just months ago, Gabbard assured the Senate Intelligence Committee there was no evidence Iran was building a nuclear weapon. “Iran has enriched uranium, but we have no intelligence confirming weaponization,” Gabbard testified under oath on March 25.
But that was before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a dramatic airstrike on Iran, citing a “secret plan” to create a nuclear bomb—a claim immediately embraced by President Trump.
Suddenly, Gabbard’s testimony was in the crosshairs.
“I don’t care what [Gabbard] said,” Trump snapped to reporters aboard Air Force One earlier this week. “I think they were very close to having one.”
He doubled down Wednesday: “Iran is a few weeks away from turning their uranium into a weapon. That’s what our allies are saying.”
Pressure from the Top
By Friday, the message from the White House was clear: Fall in line, or face the president’s wrath.
Gabbard quickly shifted gears, taking to social media to blame the press for “spreading fake news” about her original comments.
“The dishonest media is intentionally taking my testimony out of context and spreading fake news as a way to manufacture division,” she wrote to her more than 600,000 followers. “America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly. President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree.”
Her post included a clipped video of her March testimony, which has since gone viral—racking up nearly nine million views as critics and allies alike debate what she really said.
World on Edge as Trump Weighs War
The stakes couldn’t be higher. The world is watching as Trump, under pressure from Netanyahu and GOP hardliners, signals he could support direct U.S. military action against Iran. Such a move, warned international observers, could ignite a catastrophic regional war.
“Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is meeting with European leaders in Geneva as we speak,” said one senior diplomat familiar with the negotiations. “Everyone is desperate to avoid escalation, but Washington’s rhetoric isn’t helping.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday that President Trump would “make his decision within the next two weeks” as to whether the U.S. will intervene militarily, stating, “There is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future.”
For now, the world is left waiting—and wondering whether Tulsi Gabbard’s sudden reversal is just the latest casualty in the White House’s ongoing civil war over facts, foreign policy, and the future of American leadership.
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The clip the FAKE NEWS was using of Gabbard was MONTHS OLD, she and Trump look at things differently now…
Fake news needs to be fined every time they do these things to republicans because we all know how they coverup for democrats. Time to tell truth or pay for every lie they tell. Seems they know Americans are watching them lie and like Pelosi don’t care that we know it’s a bold face lie. Make them at a huge fine and public apology first time. Second time double fine and fine who told the lie and publicly apologize also. Third time strip their license. This needs to stop. I am appalled anyone buys Tappers book after he covered it up in first place and slammed republicans who called it out years ago. No one should be able to profit over coverups and lies. Turn over his profit to debt of the US. All things like fines over lies and profits after lying and cover need to go on the national debt period. Time for accountability for the last 10 years don’t you think. Another suggestion about all those who want to threaten our President or anyone else publicly along with calling people names like mentally ill pay up also. Seems to many with money can call me names without accountability. How fast will that national debt come down?