A fake news smear published last week in Bloomberg is claiming that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard was deliberately kept out of the loop during the plotting of Nicolas Maduro’s ouster as Venezuelan President, with administration officials joking that DNI stood for “Do Not Invite,” implying she is not trustworthy due to her steadfast opposition to the “forever war” policies of previous administrations.
This claim was vehemently denied by the Trump administration, and Gabbard released an X post showing that she was 100 percent behind President Trump’s successful removal of Maduro. “President Trump promised the American people he would secure our borders, confront narcoterrorism, dangerous drug cartels, and drug traffickers. Kudos to our servicemen and women and intelligence operators for their flawless execution of President Trump’s order to deliver on his promise thru Operation Absolute Resolve,” Gabbard wrote on her official DNI account on Jan. 6.
This is not the first time that the fake news and other malignant actors have attempted to undermine Gabbard’s influence within the Trump administration on behalf of the military-industrial complex. In Sept. 2025, Gabbard was blamed by the New York Times and Axios for no criminal charges being filed against CIA Director John Brennan because Gabbard wisely removed security clearances for disgraced deep state hacks – an absurd notion that is laughable on its face. RINO U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is also leading a disgraceful effort to strip the DNI of its authority, giving unrestrained power to CIA and NSA bureaucrats free of Gabbard’s oversight.
Gabbard’s influence within the Trump administration is particularly crucial because no appointee has been more dedicated to bringing justice to deep state criminals than she. In July 2025, Gabbard ordered the release of a damning tranche of documents showing how the Russia-gate coup against President Trump was ordered from the highest echelons of the Obama regime.
The documents declassified by the DNI’s office showed that the faulty intelligence community (IC) assessment framing President Trump as a Russian asset was ordered during a Dec. 2016 meeting of the National Security Council at the direct request of President Obama. The effort was waged despite the IC’s determination that Russia was “probably not trying … to influence the election by using cyber means” and after post-election talking points were developed for DNI James Clapper stating that “foreign adversaries did not use cyberattacks on election infrastructure to alter the US Presidential election outcome.”
Gabbard’s disclosures were among the most consequential of any that have been released during President Trump’s second term, but they have yet to amount to serious consequences for those who were implicated. No Obama or Clinton associates have been charged for any Russiagate-related offenses at the present moment despite the abundance of overwhelming evidence. Neoconservatives are hoping MAGA’s focus on deep state criminality subsides as they circle like sharks hoping to use President Trump’s success in Venezuela as an excuse to retreat back to a Bush-era foreign policy of nation-building and excessive militarism abroad.
‘Former’ Never Trumper Ben Shapiro said during his recent podcast that the Venezuelan operation has helped America recover from “Iraq syndrome,” meaning that it has erased the failures of Iraq from the public consciousness, and attempted to redefine President Trump’s foreign policy agenda from simply putting America first to the more convoluted and expansionist rationale of ensuring that “America’s interests are paramount” which “includes a lot of things—from freedom of the seas to the strength of American allies in contentious regions.” Gabbard is the administration official who has been the most eloquent and outspoken advocate for a sane, rational foreign policy that puts America first. She has the credibility and the vision to effectuate the Donroe Doctrine in a manner that ensures peace through strength while avoiding the interventionist pitfalls of prior administrations. It is crucial that her opponents in the fake news, neocon right and military-industrial complex are unsuccessful in their devious efforts to neutralize her. Gabbard is a fundamental component to guarantee that the MAGA agenda is a success that lasts for generations to come.
