Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to ​step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, ​Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June ⁠30, it said.

A source familiar with the matter said that ​Gabbard had been forced out by the White House.

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    You wanted Gabbard gone because she’s a woman.

    I wanted her gone because she’s a moron.

    We are not the same.

    I’ll take it, though.

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    The damage is already done.

    The intelligence community (and rest of government) must be so riddled with Russian assets that it would take decades, if ever, to root them all out.

    I still can’t believe that the US went from McCarthyism, Cold War, anti-USSR to electing a compromised President and obviously compromised DNI.

    And when will Joe Rogan interview her next? He was always championing her. Or did he flip flop again because he’s changed his mind and is dumber than the posts of a MMA ring?

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    I’d say good riddance but who knows what sort of creep they’ll put in there. That said, this lives in my brain whenever I hear her name, as does that they had to cover Caesar’s face so she wouldn’t leak his identity:

    In the summer of 2015, three Syrian girls who had narrowly survived an airstrike some weeks earlier stood before Tulsi Gabbard with horrific burns all over their bodies.

    Gabbard, then a US congresswoman on a visit to the Syria-Turkey border as part of her duties for the foreign affairs committee, had a question for them.

    “How do you know it was Bashar al-Assad or Russia that bombed you, and not Isis?’” she asked, according to Mouaz Moustafa, a Syrian activist who was translating her conversation with the girls.

    It was a revealing insight into Gabbard’s conspiratorial views of the conflict, and it shocked Moustafa to silence. He knew, as even the young children did, that Isis did not have jets to launch airstrikes. It was such an absurd question that he chose not to translate it because he didn’t want to upset the girls, the eldest of whom was 12.

    “From that point on, I’m sorry to say I was inaccurate in my translations of anything she said,” Moustafa told The Independent. “It was more like: How do I get these girls away from this devil?”

    The like one good idea she had is that she opposed war with Iran but her voice clearly lost out against the likes of Bibi and Lindsey Graham.

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      I don’t believe for a second that she opposed the war with Iran. That’s her message.

      If she really did feel strongly about it (and she should, because ending the “forever wars” was her #1 campaign issue back in 2016), then she would have resigned before the war was started.

      The lady is, and always has been, a total fraud.

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    • Ran a vicious disingenuous dirty Democratic primary as a self-proclaimed left-wing “dove” who wanted nothing more to “end the endless wars”.
    • Joined the cabinet of a fascist far-right Trump administration, only to preside over a racism domestic terrorism campaign in blue cities while starting a brand new forever war in Iran.

    I can’t exactly say I’m surprised and disappointed in Gabbard’s political legacy here–I always new she was a snake and a puppet designed to rile up low information voters on our side. But what truly disappoints me is just how many fucking people fell for it over and over again.

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      The same dumbfucks from the supposed left that kept repeating that Hillary was going to “start WWIII” seem to be almost the same sort of people that fall for anti-vax and “save the children” (qanon front group) and other such bullshit.

      I mean, it’s one thing to be suspect of useless wars and hawks that cause them, it’s another to keep bleating out the same key phrases and backing candidates that were almost certainly propped up by Putin.

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    And another person in Trump’s cabinet learns that even if you are 1000% loyal to Trump, he has loyalty to no one.

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    It’s of course lost on all the morons down there that the privilege of this scumbag is insane. Anyone else’s partner gets cancer and they have to fucking work harder. She gets to quit.

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    Any woman who would agree to work for a human shit-stain like Drumpf gets what she deserves. Like when Katelyn Jenner tried to run as a ^^rethuglican^^.