Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is notably absent from the photos of Trump and his key national security officials in the Situation Room earlier today.
Gabbard, who claimed to lawmakers in March that “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon,” was directly contradicted by Trump in recent days.
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On Friday, the president said “my intelligence community is wrong” if they have no evidence Iran is pursuing nuclear arms.
When told that Gabbard had made that claim, Trump doubled down: “She’s wrong.”
