President Donald Trump and his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are “on the same page” related to assessments of how close the Iranian regime was to obtaining a nuclear weapon, a senior Trump administration official insisted to Just the News, as Trump argued on Tuesday that the Iranians were “very close” to obtaining atomic weaponry.
Trump told reporters on Air Force One yesterday that he believed the Iranians had been “very close” to getting a nuclear weapon prior to the Israeli air strikes which began hammering Iranian nuclear facilities and the Israeli targeting of Iranian nuclear scientists starting late last week.
When a reporter contended that Gabbard had testified in March that the U.S. intelligence community was not building a nuclear weapon, Trump replied in the early hours of Tuesday morning that “I don’t care what she said, I think they were very close to having one.”
Confusion about what “close” means
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) — which oversees the U.S. intelligence community’s many agencies and which is led by Gabbard — released its Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) report in March which stated in part that “we continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that [Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini] Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003, though pressure has probably built on him to do so.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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