President Trump: “My Intelligence Community Is Wrong”

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President Trump called out his intelligence community for the second time in a week.

Trump called out his intelligence community on Friday evening while taking questions from the press in New Jersey.

A reporter told Trump his own intelligence community has stated that there is no evidence Iran is building a nuclear weapon.

The reporter further noted that DNI Tulsi Gabbard, during a congressional hearing three months ago, testified Iran did not have any nuclear weapons.

However, Gabbard has clarified that the media has taken her comments out of context.

Take a look:

Trump responded to the reporter’s original question that his intelligence community is wrong, and so is Gabbard.

The New York Post had more details to report:

President Trump tore into the US intelligence community on Friday for having been “wrong” about how close Iran was to acquiring a nuclear weapon months ago, telling reporters that he now believes Tehran has a “tremendous amount” of enriched uranium that could build a bomb in just a few weeks.

Trump made the assessment after breaking from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s testimony before Congress in March that Iran was not building nuclear weapons.

“What intelligence do you have that Iran is building a weapon? Your intelligence community said they have no evidence that they are at this point,” the reporter asked Trump on the tarmac outside of Bedminster, New Jersey.

“Then my intelligence community is wrong,” the president said, asking who said that.

“She’s wrong,” he said of Gabbard.

The spy chief had also noted in her testimony that Iran’s uranium stockiples were at unprecedented levels for a non-nuclear state.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that “Iran has all that it needs to keep a nuclear weapon” and “all they need is a decision from the Supreme leader to do that.”

Watch Trump here:

This is the second time Trump has stated Gabbard is wrong.

Here’s what he said last week:

Despite President Trump’s remarks, Gabbard has stated that she and President Trump are on the same page.

Per Politico:

Gabbard insisted to reporters Tuesday that she and the president are “on the same page” on Iran, and a person close to Gabbard denied any tensions between her and the president. As recently as Tuesday, the two were meeting with other top officials in the Situation Room at the White House, and the administration even changed the time of the briefing to accommodate her schedule to ensure she could attend, the person said.

The Gabbard ally added that she is fully on board with what Trump is trying to do with Iran, and said she has never let her personal views color the advice she provides to the president — nor has she tried to sway Trump to her own point of view.

Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said the president “has full confidence in his entire exceptional national security team” and insisted that “efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work.”

Vice President JD Vance’s team also reached out unprompted Tuesday night to defend Gabbard in a statement, arguing that she is “an essential member” of the team.



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