Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was called a ‘Hindu Zionist’ on social media after President Donald Trump again rebuked her in public for the second time for misleading the country about Iran’s nuclear power. Trump said he does not care what Tulsi Gabbard thinks about Iran’s nuclear power, and then yesterday, he said Tulsi Gabbard was wrong in saying that Iran was not building a nuke. Donald Trump is miffed with Gabbard, her messaging, her video against “elite warmongers” and reportedly excluded her from all crucial meetings regarding Iran and Israel. Tulsi Gabbard clarified that she and Trump are on the same page regarding Israel-Iran and said her testimony had been taken out of context by the “dishonest media” creating a wedge between her and the president. “America has intelligence that Iran is at the point that it can produce a nuclear weapon within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize the assembly. President Trump has been clear that can’t happen, and I agree,” Tulsi Gabbard said.
Full text of what Tulsi Gabbard said in her March testimony on Iran
“Iran continues to seek to expand its influence in the Middle East, despite the degradation to its proxies and defenses during the Gaza conflict. Iran has developed and maintains ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs, including systems capable of striking US targets and allies in the region. They’ve shown a willingness to use these weapons, including during a 2020 attack on US forces in Iraq and in attacks against Israel in April and October 2024. Iran’s cyber operations and capabilities also present a serious threat to U.S. networks and data. The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme leader Khomeini has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003. We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program. In the past year, we’ve seen an erosion of a decades long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decision-making apparatus. Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons. Iran will likely continue efforts to counter Israel and press for U.S. military withdrawal from the region by aiding, arming, and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like-minded terrorists, actors, which it refers to as its “Axis of Resistance.” Although weakened, this collection of actors still presents a wide range of threats including to Israel’s population, US forces deployed in Iraq and Syria, as well as U.S. and international military and commercial shipping and transit,” Tulsi Gabbard said.
Tulsi Gabbard’s religion under attack
MAGA attacked Tulsi Gabbard and her Hindu religion. “She presented herself as Anti-War. But she’s controlled by the Israeli and Indian lobby. Now, she is trying to take the U.S to war,” one wrote. Many called her Indian-origin, though Gabbard has no connection to India; she just practises Hinduism as her religion. “Tulsi Gabbard is a Hindu Zionist. Trump and Tulsi both serve Israel. Tulsi rejected her signed testimony stating Iran didn’t have nukes,” one wrote.
