Midnight Hammer strikes: Tulsi Gabbard frozen out of Situation Room as Trump snubs her over Iran statements
Tulsi Gabbard
was not in any of the
Situation Room
photos, which makes people wonder if there is tension between the president and his director of
national intelligence
.
Why was Tulsi Gabbard absent from the Situation Room?
After she warned about nuclear tensions and contradicted Trump's stance, she was reportedly pushed out and was excluded from the Situation Room images of the
Midnight Hammer strikes
.
The president said that Gabbard was using the situation for political gain, which pushed her to the side.
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The president has repeatedly criticized Gabbard on the issue of Iran this past week, making her absence from the Situation Room photo release unlikely to be a coincidence, as per a report by The Independent.
As reported by the New York Times, Gabbard has been having issues with Trump since the beginning of the month.
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Earlier in June, Tulsi Gabbard shared a video on social media about her visit to Hiroshima, Japan, and a warning against war in a time when nuclear weapons pose a threat to world peace.
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In the video, she states, "As we stand here today, closer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever before."
"Political elites and warmongers are carelessly fomenting fear and tension between nuclear powers," Gabbard warns in the next clip.
According to reports,
Donald Trump
took issue with her remarks. Trump interpreted Gabbard's video as evidence that she was only using her time in his White House as a stepping stone, according to people who spoke to the Times.
Did Donald Trump snub Tulsi Gabbard over her Iran remarks?
After Donald Trump was compelled to address testimony Gabbard provided in March stating that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons through its refinement efforts, his disagreements with Gabbard, who CBS reports was one of the officials in the Situation Room on Saturday, became more apparent.
President Trump told reporters, "She's wrong," on Friday following his arrival in New Jersey.
Trump made it apparent in his remarks on Friday that any action the United States took would be done so under the guise of preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Hegseth informed reporters that Trump had acted after reviewing the alleged intelligence he had received regarding Iran's nuclear aspirations.
According to Hegseth, Trump has considered all of this information and concluded that the Iranian nuclear program poses a threat.
What will this mean for Tulsi Gabbard's role going forward?
Tulsi Gabbard used ambiguous "intelligence" to justify her reversal of her March testimony and her support for Trump's Iran policy on Friday, the same day Trump publicly criticized her.
She said that in order to create division, the "dishonest media" was purposefully misrepresenting her testimony and disseminating false information. The U.S. intelligence, she added, "can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly."
FAQs
Why was Tulsi Gabbard left out of the Situation Room photographs?
Probably due to tensions with Trump after she contradicted him on Iran's nuclear threat.
What caused the split between Tulsi Gabbard and Donald Trump?
Tulsi Gabbard warned about nuclear tensions and downplayed Iran's weapons threat, which Trump saw as undermining his agenda.
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