Vance supports Gabbard after Trump rejected his Iranian nuclear assessment

Vice-President JD Vance insists that the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is still an essential member of the “coalition” team of Trump after President Donald Trump said that he was “cared” of what she had previously told to the legislators of the nuclear threat of Iran.

“Dni Gabbard is a veteran, a patriot, a faithful supporter of President Trump and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024,” Vance said in a statement on Wednesday at Fox News Digital.

“She is an essential member of our team, and we are grateful for her tireless work to keep America away from foreign threats.”

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The director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard “is a veteran, a patriot, a faithful supporter of President Trump and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024,” said vice-president JD Vance in a statement to Fox News Digital. (AP)

Vance and Gabbard were both historically leaders of the non -interventionist camp making up the Trump administration. The two historically supported A doctrine of foreign policy which supports minimal interference with the affairs of other nations.

In comparison, other members of Trump’s office, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have historically supported military intervention in foreign conflicts.

Vance, however, has publicly supported Trump when the administration, however, plans the next steps to contact Iran. Vance said on Tuesday that even if those who care about foreign intervention are right to be concerned, Trump “gained some confidence on this issue”.

“And after seeing this closely and staff, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American army to achieve the objectives of the American people,” said Vance in a social article on Tuesday. “Whatever he does, that’s his goal.”

Vance’s Declaration of Vance to Gabbard comes after Trump seemed to reduce the statements of the Intelligence Committee of the Gabbard Senate, when she said that she thought Iran did not actively build a nuclear weapon.

Gabbard told legislators in March that the intelligence community assessed that Iran “did not build a nuclear weapon, and the supreme chief Khamenei did not authorize the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003,” she said.

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She added that “Iran’s enriched uranium stock is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons”.

“Iran will probably continue the efforts to counter-Israel And press for the American military withdrawal from the region by helping, stopping and helping to reconstruct his cowardly consortium of terrorist actors sharing the same ideas, which he calls his axis of resistance, “she said during the March audience.

Vice-president JD Vance speaks to the Gala of the New World Compass world in Washington on June 3, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein / The Associated Press)

In addition, Gabbard published a video on June 10 in which she said that the world was “on the verge of nuclear annihilation”. Politico reported The fact that Trump told the White House associates that Gabbard was out of line and thought that video was an attempt to prevent him from approving Israel attacking Iran.

Alexa Henning, deputy chief of staff of Gabbard, said in an article on X Tuesday that the history of politico was “Total Clickbait”.

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Trump told journalists on the Air Force on Monday that he thought Iran was “very close” to obtaining a nuclear weapon. When he was specifically asked for Gabbard’s testimony in March, Trump was held in his assessment of Iran’s nuclear capacities.

“I don’t care what she said,” said Trump. “I think they were very close to having one.”

President Donald Trump spoke with journalists before the installation of a flag pole on the southern lawn of the White House on June 18, 2025 in Washington. (Evan Vucci / The Associated Press)

However, an official of the office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement at Fox News Digital on Wednesday that Gabbard and the president were aligned with Iran.

“The simple fact that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon at the moment does not mean that they are not” very close “as President Trump said on Air Force One,” said the official. “The statements of Potus and Dni Gabbard are congruent.”

Gabbard was not invited to Camp David in Maryland to meet with other military officials and members of the cabinet in June. However, she was in the White House situation room on Tuesday when Trump had an eye on updates in the Middle East.

A White House official told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that Trump and Gabbard’s opinions and statements on the issue were consistent with each other, noting that Gabbard said in March that she thought Iran had the ability to build a nuclear weapon.

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Trump told journalists on Wednesday at the White House that he had not yet decided if he was engaging in the United States in strikes targeting Iran, but said that the next few days or “next week was going to be very big”.

“Yes, I can do it. I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran has a lot of problems, and they want to negotiate,” Trump told journalists on Wednesday. “And I said,” Why didn’t you negotiate with me before all this death and this destruction? Why didn’t you go? “I told people,” Why didn’t you negotiate with me two weeks ago? It’s very sad to look at that. “”

Emma Colton of Fox News contributed to this report.