Trump says intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard is “wrong” about Iran’s nuclear program

Washington – President Trump said on Friday that his national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard was “false” when she declared in March that Iran did not build a nuclear weapon, marking the second time in a week, the president rejected the evaluation of the intelligence director he selected.

The White House this week said that Iran had everything he needed to build a nuclear weapon and only needs the green light from the supreme chief of Iran, with the ability to prepare a nuclear weapon in a few weeks. Trump said Iran was “very close to having” a nuclear weapon.

In March, Gabbard declared on Capitol Hill that the United States “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.” Gabbard then insisted that she and the president were on the same wavelength.

Trump rejected the public assessment of his intelligence community on Friday, and Gabbard in particular, because the White House said that the president will decide to join Israel in his strikes is Iran within two weeks.

Friday, the president arrived in Bedminster, New Jersey, a journalist asked him: “What intelligence do I have that Iran built a nuclear weapon? Your intelligence community said that they had no evidence that they were at this stage.”

“Well, my intelligence community is wrong,” said Trump. “Who in the intelligence community said that?”

“Your national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard,” replied the journalist.

“She is wrong,” Trump said, going to the following question.

The president had previously rejected Gabbard’s testimony earlier this week, returning from a G7 summit in Canada. A journalist noted that Gabbard said in March that the intelligence community said Iran did not build a nuclear weapon.

“I don’t care what she said,” the president told journalists on the Air Force One. “I think they were very close to having one.”

Vice-president JD Vance Written on x Tuesday, “Tulsi’s testimony was in March, and many things have changed since”.

The president was informed of the risks and advantages of the bombing FordIran’s safest nuclear site told CBS News CBS News. His state of mind Is deactivation necessary due to the risk of weapons products within a relatively short time.

The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists on Thursday that the president would decide to join the opportunity to join the strikes of Israel in the two weeks and to authorize the diplomatic path To play.

“Based on the fact that there is substantial chances of negotiations which can take place or not with Iran in the near future, I will decide or not in the next two weeks,” the president said in a statement read by Leavitt during the White House press briefing. On Friday, the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs met a group of European diplomats in Geneva.

Asked on Friday if a strike could be possible before the deadline of two weeks, the president said: “I give them a period of time. We will see what this period is. I give them a certain time. But two weeks would be the maximum.”