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White House pressure and disputes over Iran and Venezuela pushed Gabbard out after she was sidelined from major national security decisions, sources said.
- On Friday, DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced she will resign effective June 30, citing her husband's recent cancer diagnosis.
- Throughout her 18-month tenure, Gabbard was routinely excluded from major foreign policy decisions involving Iran and Venezuela, reflecting tensions over her isolationist stance.
- In June 2025, President Donald Trump called her conclusions "wrong" after she testified that Iran was not pursuing a nuclear weapon, marking a sharp public rebuke.
- Trump praised Gabbard on Truth Social for doing an "incredible job," while announcing principal deputy director Aaron Lukas will serve as acting director.
- Her exit follows removals of three other high-level women in two months, ending a tenure defined by controversies over her amplification of Kremlin talking points.
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RT InternationalScott Ritter: The US administration lost a patriot and truth-teller in Tulsi Gabbard
As DNI, she brought candor and integrity to intelligence – but in a White House that prizes loyalty, truth became a liability Once the darling of the Democratic Party, Tulsi Gabbard had a hard-earned reputation as a no-nonsense proponent of fact-based truth which she assiduously incorporated into her eloquent defense of Constitutional due process and...
US President Donald Trump chose Tulsi Gabbard as his top intelligence official because of her non-interventionist and "America First" ideology, which distanced her from the Democratic Party and led her to…
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