President Donald Trump reportedly left out Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard out of a key meeting to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran earlier this month, according to a new report.
Concretely, Fox News' Peter Doocy detailed on Tuesday that Gabbard was not invited to the meetings that took place at Camp David on June 8 and were attended by high-ranking officials and top military brass."
"We can report via a US official that DNI Tulsi Gabbard was not invited to last week's camp David retreat where President Trump convened senior national security officials to discuss the Middle East. She had a scheduling conflict with National Guard orders, but was never invited in the first place," Doocy reported, according to a social media post by Fox News' Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin.
The report comes shortly after Trump dismissed an earlier claim from Gabbard, who in March had said the intelligence community believed Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
Speaking to reporters aboard the Air Force One as he returned to the U.S. from the G-7 summit in Canada, Trump was asked about the statement from Gabbard, who made the claim in her opening statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2023," Gabbard said back then. "We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program."
Trump, however, dismissed the claim. "I don't care what she said, I think they were very close to having them," he told reporters.
In another contact with reporters, Trump also rejected a claim by French President Emmanuel Macron about him returning from the G-7 to negotiate a ceasefire.
"We're looking at something better than a ceasefire," Trump added. Asked what would be better, he said "a real end." "Not a ceasefire, an end."
Trump appeared to suggest U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran war, speaking in plural when discussing air dominance over the latter.
"We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn't compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured "stuff." Nobody does it better than the good ol' USA," Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social.
Trump went on to say that the U.S. knows "exactly where the so-called "Supreme Leader" is hiding," "He is an easy target, but is safe there - We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now," Trump added, calling for an unconditional surrender from Tehran.
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