Trump reportedly angered by intelligence chief’s social media warning against ‘warmongers’ placing the world ‘on the brink of nuclear annihilation’

As he weighs joining Israel’s war against Iran, Donald Trump reportedly finds himself at odds with his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, with one White House official saying that he has “just been kind of down on her in general” of late.

Trump was recently incensed, according to Politico, by Gabbard’s decision to post a three-minute video on X in the early hours of June 10 in which she warned that “political elite and warmongers” are “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers,” placing the world “on the brink of nuclear annihilation.”

Trump is said to have been angered by the video, accusing Gabbard of going “off-message” and rebuking her for it in person.

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Pretty sure Gabbard is in Putin’s pocket. Putin doesn’t want Israel to attack Iran.

    The people that have Trump’s ear are accelerationists and Dominionists. They want Israel at war with Iran and probably others.

    Trump is still a Putin toady but Putin doesn’t have the people in place to whisper into Trump’s ear. He’s under the spell of the Thiels and Voights.

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      19 hours ago

      What makes you think the IC is in Putin’s pocket? Is it because they’ve assessed that Iran hasn’t been building nuclear weapons for the past 22 years? Does that mean the IAEA is also in Putin’s pocket?

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        18 hours ago

        Read up on her and her family’s history. She’s had ties to Putin going way back.

        Either she’s impartial or doing Putin’s bidding. If you know anything about her, impartiality is not her thing. Her history with Russia strongly suggests the latter.