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Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief

SUMMARY

President Donald Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should fire Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Trump expressed frustration that Gabbard shielded her former deputy Joe Kent. Kent resigned days earlier after publicly arguing that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States, directly undercutting Trump’s stated rationale for launching the war.

The president was particularly angered that Gabbard appeared reluctant to defend the administration’s position during her testimony at the worldwide threats hearing on Capitol Hill last month.

Trump gave Gabbard a mixed public endorsement on Sunday aboard Air Force One.


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