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Rhiannon12866

(259,032 posts)
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:30 PM 10 hrs ago

Who is likely to replace Gabbard as DNI? Panel breaks down the significance of the position - MS NOW Reports



Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as Director of National Intelligence due to her husband's battle with bone cancer. Trump announced on Truth Social that Aaron Lukas will serve as Acting DNI.

MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, Staff Writer at The Atlantic Tom Nichols and Chief Washington Correspondent at the MeidasTouch Scott MacFarlane join to discuss. - Aired on 05/22/2026.

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Who is likely to replace Gabbard as DNI? Panel breaks down the significance of the position - MS NOW Reports (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 10 hrs ago OP
Michael Flynn probably. LuvLoogie 10 hrs ago #1
Maybe Marco Rubio will add it to his portfolio. Ocelot II 10 hrs ago #2
Is Clarabell the Clown available? surfered 9 hrs ago #3
A spokesman for the reclusive Clarabell says that Clarabell does "not want his image sullied by ANY association ... marble falls 9 hrs ago #5
Perfect 😁 surfered 8 hrs ago #6
Graham. marble falls 9 hrs ago #4
Mata Hari lostincalifornia 8 hrs ago #7
Standing by my Flynn prediction from this afternoon displacedvermoter 7 hrs ago #8

Ocelot II

(131,267 posts)
2. Maybe Marco Rubio will add it to his portfolio.
Fri May 22, 2026, 09:34 PM
10 hrs ago

If not, surely Trump will find the most incompetent, unqualified bozo he hasn't already hired. His replacements are always worse than the first ones.

marble falls

(72,560 posts)
5. A spokesman for the reclusive Clarabell says that Clarabell does "not want his image sullied by ANY association ...
Fri May 22, 2026, 10:14 PM
9 hrs ago

... implied or associated with any or in any part of the entire Trump family."

displacedvermoter

(5,016 posts)
8. Standing by my Flynn prediction from this afternoon
Fri May 22, 2026, 11:58 PM
7 hrs ago

Spirochete One has talked about bringing back Flynn in some capacity for a while, and the traitorous former general has now been pardoned and indemnified and he's ready to pick up where Tulsi left off in selling us down the river.

Flynn could also, in an even scarier scenario, take NSA duties over from Rubio, who wears several of these security duty hats, none fitting him any better than his new Florsheims.

Or, a really bad idea that could happen, Kegsbreath is outed for drinking again, and so he gets canned, and Flynn takes over the Pentagon months, or days, before the November elections.

One of these three things I fear I see in the cards...

Anyone see similarities between Flynn and Aaron Burr, by the way?

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