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TULSI GABBARD

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   May 23, 2026 - 12:34 pm at 12:34 pm

   Tulsi Gabbard is out at DNI for the worst conceivable reason. The Wall Street Journal paid her the unintentional compliment of smearing her in its headline, which means she was effective: “Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard’s Resignation Caps a Tumultuous Tenure.” Hey WSJ dummies— Tulsi wasn’t hired to keep the peace; she was hired to kick the tables over.

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   In a short but graceful resignation letter, Tulsi Gabbard explained that her husband, Abraham, was diagnosed with “rare bone cancer,” and she is prioritizing her ailing husband over a thankless and demanding DNI job. That’s it. But corporate media, drunk on its low trust levels and never missing a chance to enhance a tragedy, saddled up a possé to hang her in the headlines.

   Before I continue: We pray for Tulsi, her husband, and his family, and for miraculous healing as they navigate the wreckage of a mysterious and inexplicable pandemic of rare cancers. Hopefully, Abraham has access to out-of-the-box thinking.

   President Trump praised her and wished the couple well. “Unfortunately, after having done a great job, Tulsi Gabbard will be leaving the Administration on June 30th,” the President began. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her.”

   Corporate media dove into the Charlie Kirk effect. Ghoulish trad-media reporters took the opportunity of Gabbard’s personal tragedy to deploy the standard resignation template: She was fired for crossing President Trump. They couldn’t bring themselves to simply report “DNI resigns to care for gravely ill spouse; President thanks her and says she did a great job.” Instead, they used the occasion of a cancer diagnosis as a news hook to recycle every grievance, rumor, and secondhand gripe they could dredge up from sources too timid to attach their names.

   As ever, they don’t have a single scrap of evidence. All the stories were sourced on cowardly anonymous gripers and gossipers: “several officials,” “people familiar,” “current and former intelligence officials,” etc., with no way for readers to test credibility, motives, or even whether the sources even exist as described.

   Meanwhile, the one person whose view of her performance actually matters —the President— goes on record in exactly the opposite tone you’d expect if he thought she’d failed him or had demanded her resignation. Trump isn’t shy; when he’s mad at someone, we hear about it in all caps.

   To be clear: this is a man who once live-tweeted his own Secretary of State’s firing before the Secretary of State even knew about it. Subtlety is not a known feature of the Trump communications suite.

   The media should be ashamed of themselves. We really don’t hate them nearly enough, and we still trust them too much.

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   ? If we do want to look for something operating behind the scenes, Tulsi’s resignation follows a now-familiar template: the change-agent handoff. Similar to how Pam Bondi resigned to make way for assistant AG Todd Blanche (Trump’s former personal lawyer who could have never been confirmed), President Trump announced that Aaron Lukas, Tulsi’s principal deputy, will become acting DNI.

   Lukas has been serving as principal deputy DNI since 2025. Unlike Tulsi, who lacked any prior intelligence background, he is a career intel hand, an ex?CIA chief of station, and the ODNI’s chief of staff during Trump’s first term. It is nearly certain that Lukas was the muscular arm and architect behind Tulsi’s reforms.

   In other words, since Tulsi came to ODNI, lacking experience but having broad objectives, to cut headcount, depoliticize, de-DEI, declassify, kill the censorship complex, the natural division of labor would have been: Tulsi set the direction, and Lukas designed and enforced the plans.

   So what I see —once again— is Tulsi Gabbard as the change agent. Gabbard was the visible disruptor, sent in to swing a wrecking ball at an intelligence bureaucracy that had spent years dabbling in censorship, narrative?policing, and political espionage. Fixing that, especially the firings, made everyone hate her.

   Lukas is the next?phase change agent: a 20?year CIA veteran and former ODNI chief of staff who already knows where every lever is, where the bodies are buried, and who can translate Gabbard’s broad mandate —cut the fat, de?weaponize, declassify— into durable structural changes from inside the machine, but without the Phase One baggage.

   Trump’s announcement that Tulsi’s own principal deputy will now serve as acting DNI hardly looks like any repudiation of her agenda. Instead, it seems precisely like the next phase of the same project, now led by a trusted insider who can finish the work she started. In short— the opposite of the media’s fake narrative.

   We thank Tulsi for her selfless service and wish her and her husband the very best

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2. Kewl2 says:

   May 23, 2026 - 12:46 pm at 12:46 pm

   Excellent review!

   “The media should be ashamed of themselves. We really don’t hate them nearly enough, and we still trust them too much.”

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   • pedro_deleon says:

     May 23, 2026 - 1:16 pm at 1:16 pm

     Sundance concurs, elaborates on Nunes speculation for DNI

     https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/05/22/president-trump-responds-to-dni-gabbard-departure-principal-deputy-director-of-national-intelligence-aaron-lukas-will-serve-as-acting-director-of-national-intelligence

     (PS Bannon was among those who said she’d been fired)

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