Tulsi Gabbard is rumored to be in Donald Trump‘s ‘line of fire’ as she has been sidelined ahead of a much-anticipated intelligence briefing to Congress to detail Trump’s recent strikes on Iran‘s nuclear facilities.

Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, was forced to make a dramatic U-turn last week after the president said she was ‘wrong’ when she testified Tehran was not close to getting a nuclear weapon.

Now, the spy chief will be absent on Thursday as Trump officials offer Congress evidence of how successful the strikes were. Trump has angrily insisted CNN and The New York Times were wrong in saying they had minimal effect.

Gabbard was originally supposed to join members of Trump’s inner circle – CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth – in the briefing.

A person familiar with Gabbard’s schedule told the Associated Press said she was originally going to attend but no longer.

‘The media is turning this into something it’s not,’ a senior Trump administration official told The Washington Post, adding that Ratcliffe will represent the intelligence community. 

However, Trump biographer Michael Wolff said that Trump now sees Gabbard as a ‘stooge’ who will take the blame for the leaks.

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