Trump Confirms Tulsi Gabbard’s Job Is Safe as DNI
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard’s job is safe, saying she “did a good job” during her speech to the House Intelligence Committee.
While answering questions from reporters, Trump was asked if Gabbard’s job was “still as safe as DNI.” The question comes as rumors surfaced that Gabbard would resign from the Trump administration, days after Joe Kent resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) because he opposed the war against Iran.
“I thought she did a good job yesterday,” Trump said.
Breitbart News’ Olivia Rondeau reported that on Wednesday, Gabbard spoke before the Senate Intelligence Committee where she “shared the intelligence community’s assessments of Operation Epic Fury, China” and drug cartels.
During the hearing, Gabbard explained how “the spread of radical Islamist ideologies “poses a fundamental threat to freedom and the fundamental principles that underpin Western civilization”:
While acknowledging that counterterrorism operations in the Middle East and North Africa and strict U.S. border control have degraded the ability of Muslim terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS to harm Americans, she said the spread of radical Islamist ideologies “poses a fundamental threat to freedom and the fundamental principles that underpin Western civilization” and that there are “increasing examples of this in various European countries.”
Regarding military enemies, Gabbard said: “The intelligence community believes that Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan have researched and developed a range of new, advanced or traditional missile launch systems, with nuclear and conventional payloads, that bring our homeland within range. »
On Thursday, Gabbard, alongside Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel, spoke before the House Intelligence Committee.
While Gabbard has spent recent days speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, conservative investigative journalist Laura Loomer asserted in a job on
“This comes after two days of testimony before Congress this week, during which she never once expressed support for President Trump or his decisions,” Loomer wrote. “Instead, she used her time during the hearings to assert President Trump’s right to make decisions as president of the United States, making clear that she did not support those decisions.”
