{"id":9204,"date":"2025-06-20T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/trump-says-intelligence-director-tulsi-gabbard-is-wrong-about-irans-nuclear-program\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:14:26","slug":"trump-says-intelligence-director-tulsi-gabbard-is-wrong-about-irans-nuclear-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/20\/trump-says-intelligence-director-tulsi-gabbard-is-wrong-about-irans-nuclear-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard is “wrong” about Iran’s nuclear program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington<\/em> \u2014 President Trump on Friday said his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was “wrong” when she testified in March that Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon, marking the second time in a week the president has dismissed the assessment of the intelligence director he selected.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House this week said Iran has everything it needs to build a nuclear weapon and needs only the green light from Iran’s supreme leader, with the ability to ready a nuclear weapon within weeks. Mr. Trump said Iran was “very close to having” a nuclear weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March, Gabbard testified on Capitol Hill that the U.S. “continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” Gabbard later insisted she and the president are on the same page.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump dismissed his intelligence community’s public assessment of Iran on Friday, and Gabbard specifically, as the White House says the president will decide whether to join Israel in its strikes<\/a><\/span> on Iran within two weeks<\/a><\/span>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

When the president arrived in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday, a reporter asked him: “What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community had said they have no evidence that they are at this point.”<\/p>\n

“Well then, my intelligence community is wrong,” Mr. Trump responded. “Who in the intelligence community said that?”<\/p>\n

“Your director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,” the reporter answered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She’s wrong,” Mr. Trump said, moving on to the next question.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The president previously dismissed Gabbard’s testimony earlier this week, on his way back from a G7 summit in Canada. A reporter noted that Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence community said Iran wasn’t building a nuclear weapon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t care what she said,” the president told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I think they were very close to having one.”<\/p>\n

Vice President JD Vance\u00a0wrote on X<\/a> on Tuesday that “Tulsi’s testimony was in March, and a lot has changed since then.”<\/p>\n

The president has been briefed on the risks and the benefits of bombing\u00a0Fordo<\/a><\/span>, Iran’s most secure nuclear site, multiple sources told CBS News this week.\u00a0His mindset<\/a><\/span> is that disabling it is necessary because of the risk of weapons being produced in a relatively short period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the president will make a decision on whether to join Israel’s strikes within two weeks and allow the diplomatic path<\/a><\/span> to play out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Based on the fact that there is a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” the president said in a statement read by Leavitt at the White House press briefing. The Iranian foreign minister met with a group of European diplomats in Geneva on Friday.<\/p>\n

Asked Friday if a strike could be possible before the two-week deadline is up, the president said: “I’m giving them a period of time. We’ll see what that period of time is. I’m giving them a period of time. But two weeks would be the maximum.”<\/p>\n

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