Trump says intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard’s nuclear program “mistake” against Iran
Washington – President Trump said Friday that his National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was “error” when he testified in March that Iran did not build nuclear weapons, the second time in a week that the president has dismissed an assessment of his chosen intelligence director.
The White House said this week that Iran has everything it takes to build nuclear weapons and only needs the green light of Iran’s supreme leader and is able to prepare nuclear weapons within weeks. Mr Trump said Iran is “very close to” nuclear weapons.
In March, Gabbard testified on Capitol Hill that the United States “continues to assess that Iran has not established nuclear weapons and that supreme leader Khamenei has not authorized him to suspend nuclear weapons programs in 2003.” Gabbard later insisted that she was on the same page as the president.
Mr. Trump dismissed public assessments of Iran on Friday, while Gabad, in particular the White House, as the White House said, the president will decide whether to join Israel strike In Iran Within two weeks.
When the president arrived in Bedminster, New Jersey on Friday, a reporter asked him: “What intelligence do you have, Iran is building nuclear weapons?
Mr. Trump replied: “Then, my intelligence community is wrong.” “Who says that in the intelligence community?”
The reporter replied: “Your National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.”
Mr. Trump said: “She was wrong.”
The president had previously returned from Canada’s G7 summit earlier this week to dismissing Gabbard’s testimony earlier this week. A reporter pointed out that Gabbard testified in March that the intelligence delegate said Iran had not established nuclear weapons.
“I don’t care what she said,” the president told reporters on Air Force One. “I think they are very close to having one.”
In an article on X, Gabbard accused the media of “taking my testimony out of context.”
“The United States has the wisdom to believe that Iran is about to decide to produce nuclear weapons within weeks to months, if they decide to finalize parliament,” Gabbard wrote.
“Talsey’s testimony was in March and a lot has changed since then,” Vice President JD Vance wrote on X on Tuesday.
The President has been briefly covered about the risks and benefits of bombing FuduoSeveral sources told CBS News this week. His mentality It is because of the risk of producing weapons in a relatively short period of time and therefore is necessary.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Thursday that the president will decide whether to join Israel’s strike within two weeks and allow it Diplomatic road Work.
“Based on the fact that negotiations with Iran may be highly likely to be in the near future, I will decide whether to proceed in the next two weeks,” the president said in a statement at a White House press conference. Iranian Foreign Minister met with a group of European diplomats in Geneva on Friday.
Asked if there was a strike on Friday before the two-week deadline, the president said: “I gave them a while. We’ll see the time of that period. I gave them a while. But two weeks are the biggest.”
