Tulsi Gabbard is OUT. The "brave antiwar truth-teller" just resigned as Trump's intelligence chief, but not before she torched every principle she ever claimed to have.
The official story is that Gabbard is stepping down, effective June 30, to care for her husband, who has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. That is a real and serious thing, and no one wishes illness on anyone's family.
But let's not pretend that's the whole picture.
Reports emerged back in April that the White House had been pushing Gabbard to step down before the midterms. Trump wanted her gone. The cancer announcement is the soft landing for a woman who was already being shown the door.
So let's actually look at the tenure she's leaving behind.
Gabbard came up as a Democrat from Hawaii. She was a vice chair of the DNC who resigned in 2016 to endorse Bernie Sanders. She built an entire political identity around opposing "regime-change wars" and the lies that start them.
Then she switched parties, endorsed Trump, and got confirmed as Director of National Intelligence in early 2025.
And what did the great antiwar crusader do with the top intelligence job in the country?
She helped justify Trump's decision to bomb Iran alongside Israel, claiming the regime posed an "imminent threat," a conclusion that conveniently reversed her own earlier intelligence assessments the moment her boss wanted a war.
Her own counterterrorism chief, Joe Kent, resigned in protest over the Iran conflict. The antiwar icon greenlit the exact kind of war she spent ten years claiming to despise.
Then there's the propaganda.
In July 2025, the entire executive board of the Congressional Black Caucus called for her resignation after she released documents accusing President Obama of "manufacturing" evidence against Trump.
They accused her of abusing her position to spread "a partisan narrative rooted in conspiracy and discredited claims" to shield Trump. The person sworn to safeguard the truth was caught laundering conspiracy theories instead.
This is the throughline of her entire career. Antiwar until war was useful. Anti-establishment until the establishment paid better. A truth-teller until the truth became inconvenient.
She didn't fall on principle. She refused to rule out a 2028 presidential run as recently as this year and got pushed out anyway, then wrapped her exit in a family tragedy.
Turns out the "brave truth-teller" was a brand, and the brand just got discontinued.
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