Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s strength and standing within the Trump administration is coming under question after the president twice publicly brushed off her testimony that Iran is not close to developing a nuclear weapon, and amid reports of tensions between the two.

President Trump nominated Gabbard as his intelligence director despite some doubts from both parties, and her anti-war stance fits in with the MAGA movement’s aversion to getting the U.S. sucked into foreign conflicts.

But the two are not longtime allies, and she increasingly appears to be on the outside looking in as Trump crafts his policy on the Israeli-Iran war.

“She was rewarded for sticking by Trump during the 2024 election and being a fierce advocate for him, particularly as it relates to military intervention,” one Trump ally said of Gabbard, explaining why Trump nominated her to the intelligence post.

A video Gabbard posted on social media last week following a visit to Hiroshima, the Japanese city where the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb near the end of World War II, has come under heavy attention in Trump World.

In the more than three minute video, which was posted to her personal account on social platform X, Gabbard details the devastating consequences of nuclear warfare and accuses “political elite and warmongers” of “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers.”

Some saw Gabbard as getting ahead of the White House’s messaging on Iran and Israel when it came to the video.

“It’s not a time for politics, but for pragmatism,” the Trump ally said, noting the decisions Trump has to make on whether to involve the U.S. directly in the war by bombing the Fordow nuclear facility. That facility is buried in an Iranian mountain, and only U.S. bombs and flights may be able to........

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