Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump

Source: The Atlantic

Tulsi Gabbard Chooses Loyalty to Trump

Isaac Stanley-Becker
Thu, June 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM EDT 15 min read

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Tulsi Gabbard believed she had found her people. The Trump White House would be a place where “America First” isolationism ruled. No one would make the hurtful suggestion that her talking points sounded suspiciously like Kremlin talking points. And her decision to meet with Syria’s now-deposed dictator as he bombed his own cities would not be unfairly judged. Her mission as director of national intelligence was straightforward, she told associates: to clean up America’s spy agencies so they wouldn’t be able to misuse intelligence in pursuit of war.

But scarcely six months in the job, the onetime Democratic representative and presidential candidate is confronting the limits of her sway with Donald Trump as he celebrates his decision to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, muses about regime change in Tehran, and posts footage on social media of B-2 bombers to the tune of the parody song “Bomb Iran,” which includes the lyrics “Time to turn Iran into a parking lot.”

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Gabbard has so alienated Trump that she may be endangering the existence of her office altogether, which the president has mused about scrapping. “She touched the third rail—she testified that the intelligence community doesn’t assess that Iran is sprinting toward a bomb,” a former U.S. official who worked closely with Gabbard told us. “It’s hard to overstate how many people she angered by doing that, and the amount of work required to get back into their good graces.”

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