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President Donald Trump spoke very highly this week about the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who will be leaving the administration on June 30 to care for her husband, Abraham, amid a bone cancer diagnosis.
“I want to express our tremendous gratitude to our outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who’s a terrific person, actually,” the president said on Tuesday.
This drew a loud round of applause from the assembled Cabinet members
“Tulsi’s worked tirelessly to restore trust and focus on the intelligence, and with the intelligence community, they all respected her, they listened to her, she gave us leads…she was able to expose a lot of things,” the president continued.
President Trump additionally praised Gabbard for reforming the Office of DNI and “cutting the staff by 40 percent, and she prevented countless terrorists and cartel members from entering the United States.”
Another item the president highlighted was Gabbard’s work on exposing the details of the “Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax” that was prominent during President Trump’s first term.
“Probably the greatest hoax in the history of our country,” President Trump remarked.
“And she declassified numerous historic documents of special public interest, including related to the JFK and RFK assassinations, which everybody wanted to see, and we’re now releasing a lot of things having to do with space,” the president continued, referring to the tranches of UFO and UAP files newly declassified by the Department of War.
Gabbard announced her resignation last week, noting that her time serving as the director of national intelligence had been a “profound honor,” but said she must offer her resignation due to a recent bone cancer diagnosis that her husband received.
“At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,” she wrote in her resignation letter. “Abraham has been my rock throughout our eleven years of marriage – standing steadfast throughout my deployments to East Africa on a Joint Special Operations mission, multiple political campaigns, and now my service in this role.”
In closing his remarks on Tuesday, the president wished Gabbard and her husband well.
“Tulsi, we’re praying for you and for your husband. Her husband’s not feeling great, but he’s going to feel great soon,” President Trump said. “You’re going to get him better, and he’s a wonderful guy.”
