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Introduction – June 20, 2025

Tulsi Gabbard was one of the few in the Trump administration who had anything sensible to say on Iran and that put her at odds with the rest of Trump’s ‘advisors’.

As Trump’s National Intelligence Director, Gabbard was privy to all the most sensitive information pertaining to national security. According Gabbard Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program and did not plan to restart the program it abandoned in 2003.

That is why she’s been sidelined on the Iran issue, even though she is head of U.S. National Intelligence.

That means that those who make-up Trump’s inner circle, those who guide and advise him are committed to war with Iran. They just need a pretext and Gabbard would have denied them that pretext.

To make matters worse, these warmongers don’t just want a limited strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Heavily influenced by the Zionist Lobby, we believe that they want nothing less than full-on regime change in Iran.

Gabbard would have constituted an obstacle to such a course of action and that’s why she has been sidelined

Trump may prevaricate and appear uncommitted on the issue but behind the scenes his closest advisors are urging him to strike while the iron is hot. That means taking advantage of present state of Iran’s air defenses, which Israel claims to have damaged or degraded during its June 13 strikes.

The trouble is that Iran’s military has made a remarkable speedy recovery after being caught momentarily off-guard on June 13.

So if and when Trump orders extensive strikes on Iran, as we believe he will, then the U.S. military could be in for some nasty surprises. Ed.

Tulsi Gabbard sidelined in Trump administration discussions on Israel and Iran

By Dan De Luce, Matt Dixon, Garrett Haake, Carol E. Lee and Courtney Kube – NBC News June 19, 2025

National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, an outspoken critic of past U.S. military interventions abroad, appears to have fallen out of favor with President Donald Trump as he weighs military action against Iran, according to multiple senior administration officials with knowledge of the matter.

Gabbard allies insist that, while there is some White House tension, some of the public blowback is overstated, and none interviewed by NBC News expect her to leave the administration as a result of the president’s Iran policy, even if that includes direct U.S. involvement.

Gabbard’s politically perilous position burst into the open this week when Trump brushed her back over her testimony to Congress in March. At that time, she said the U.S. intelligence community did not believe Iran was building a nuclear weapon — a comment at odds with Trump’s recent public statement about the threat posed by Iran’s potential nuclear program.

“I don’t care what she said. I think they were very close to having one,” Trump told reporters Tuesday on Air Force One.

A person with knowledge of the matter said the U.S. intelligence community’s view has not changed since Gabbard’s testimony in March.

But the idea that a president would openly refute his director of national intelligence immediately spurred questions about whether she is now iced out of decision-making on the issue.

It also reflects a rift that is playing out publicly in Trump’s MAGA coalition, with some supporters advocating standing by Israel in whatever military action it takes against Iran and others saying intervention would go against the “America First” philosophy. Trump’s criticism of U.S. involvement in past conflicts — and his campaign promise to be a “peacemaker” in his second term — brought in unusual bedfellows, such as Gabbard, who had been a Democratic congresswoman.


Multiple senior administration officials said Gabbard has been sidelined in internal administration discussions about the conflict between Israel and Iran. Even two of her allies who spoke to NBC News acknowledged that her standing took a hit when she posted a video on June 10 after a trip to Hiroshima, Japan. The video, which featured the simulated destruction of American cities and Gabbard warning about the dangers of nuclear war, annoyed the White House team, the officials said.

 

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