Miranda Devine: Tulsi Gabbard keeps her focus on revealing Deep State’s dirty secrets — even as they try to take her down
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Miranda Devine: Tulsi Gabbard keeps her focus on revealing Deep State’s dirty secrets — even as they try to take her down
Anonymously sourced hit pieces have hammered Tulsi Gabbard the past few months in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New Republic, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, you name it.
They are part of a relentless campaign to undermine President Trump’s director of national intelligence because she is almost single-handedly revealing the dirty secrets of the Deep State.
Rumors swirl around Washington that the president is displeased with her and she will soon follow Pam Bondi out the door.
But that doesn’t appear to be the case.
The commander in chief is unwavering in his support for her when reporters ask, including during an impromptu press conference on Air Force One last week.
“Sure,” he said when asked if he still has “confidence” in Gabbard after the incendiary resignation of one of her top aides, Joe Kent, over his opposition to the Iran war.
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“She’s a little bit different in her thought process than me, but that doesn’t make somebody not available to serve,” said Trump.
He was even more effusive last summer on my podcast Pod Force One, after Gabbard held a bombshell press conference announcing she had sent criminal referrals to the DOJ and FBI implicating former President Barack Obama in the “seditious conspiracy” of the Russia-collusion hoax.
“Tulsi’s done a great job,” said Trump.
“You know there were some people that really wanted Tulsi — they thought she was going to do a fantastic job . . . She’s tough and she’s smart and she went . . . deep into the files and she found it . . . Look, this was an attempted coup . . . A lot of people would not have found [the classified documents showing Obama’s role].
“They wouldn’t have found it to be........
