Trump slams the assessment of Dni Tulsi Gabbard Iran with Stern Rebuke: “She is wrong”
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President Donald Trump told journalists on Friday that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was “false” in his assessment that Iran is not about to build a nuclear weapon.
Trump’s comments came after leaving Air Force One on his way to his bedbed, New Jersey, Golf Club, when he moved away from answering a few questions from journalists.
“She is wrong,” said Trump after he was questioned about Gabbard’s assessment that Iran is not near the construction of a nuclear weapon. “My intelligence community is wrong.”
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Tulsi Gabbard and her husband Abraham Williams at the Oval Office in February 2025. (Photo of Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)
Trump’s remarks were preceded by a question of a journalist asking the president, who publicly opposed the war in Iraq about 20 years ago, which made this situation with different Iran – having not been found on the weapons of mass destruction after the George W. Bush administration invaded Iraq.
“There were no weapons of mass destruction. I never thought there were. It was somewhat pre -nuclear. You know, it was – there was a nuclear age, but nothing like it,” said Trump. “And it seemed that I was right on the material they have already gathered (in Iran). It is a huge amount of equipment. And I think in a few weeks, or certainly in a few months, (Iran was going) to have a nuclear weapon. We cannot let it happen.”
In March, Dni Gabbard declared during an opening declaration to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the intelligence community “continues to assess that Iran does not build a nuclear weapon and that the supreme chief Khamenei did not authorize the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
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This week, according to The Guardian, vice-president of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Warner, D-VA., Said that Gabbard’s evaluation was “reconfirmed” by current intelligence.
President Donald Trump and the director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard found themselves on the opposing sides of a crucial question: does Iran have the capacity to build a nuclear weapon? (Getty Images)
Meanwhile, last week, Gabbard published a cryptic video of three and a half minutes over X last week, warning the risks of a potential nuclear war, and exploding “hot” to bring the world closer “closer to the edge of nuclear annihilation than ever”.
President Donald Trump said on board the Air Force One earlier this week that he doesn’t care what Gabbard says: “I think they were very close to having one”, when he supported the divergent opinions of the pair.
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Following Trump’s comments, Gabbard went to social networks and castigated the media for having “intentionally” brought his testimony from March to the “Hors Context” Senate Intelligence Committee.
“The dishonest media intentionally emerge my testimony from their context and broadcast the false news as a means of making the division,” said Gabbard in an article on X, accompanied by a video clip from his testimony from March to the Congress.
“America has intelligence that Iran is to the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within months, if they decide to finalize the Assembly. President Trump has been clear that this cannot happen, and I agree.”
