Days after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to Congress about threats to the U.S. amid a war with Iran, a report claimed President Donald Trump was ready to fire her over it, but his friend and adviser Roger Stone intervened.
According to the report in AxiosTrump was so angry with Tulsi Gabbard for not supporting the Iran war during her testimony. The report said the US president also “berated” the head of national intelligence in the private meeting and also questioned her loyalty, the report quoted a source as saying.
A few days ago, The Guardian reported that Trump had spoken to members of his cabinet and asked to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Trump was reportedly frustrated that Gabbard patronized one of his former staffers who resigned over America’s war in Iran.
“Roger made the deal. He saved Tulsi,” a source familiar with the development told Axios.
But she broke her silence on the Iran war, saying: “Donald Trump was overwhelmingly elected by the American people to be our president and commander-in-chief. As our commander-in-chief, he is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat and whether to take actions he deems necessary to protect the safety and security of our troops, the American people and our country.”
When Joe Kent resigned over the Iran war
In mid-March, Donald Trump’s top counterterrorism official, Joe Kent, resigned, revealing a rare disagreement within the administration over the Iran strikes.
When he resigned, Joe Kent also made some massive allegations against the federal government, becoming the first high-ranking official in the administration to resign over the conflict.
In his letter, Kent argued that America faces no threat from Iran.
Joe Kent said: “After much consideration, I have decided to resign my position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center effective today. I cannot in good conscience support a continued war on Iran. Iran posed no immediate threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war because of pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
He argued that Donald Trump “understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and drained the wealth and prosperity of our nation.”
“This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran was an imminent threat to the United States, and if you attacked now, there was a clear path to a quick victory. It was a lie, and it is the same tactic that the Israelis used to drag us into a disastrous war in Iraq that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women,” he said in his resignation letter again.
