Gabbard’s 2017 trip to Syria, where she met with authoritarian leader Bashar al-Assad, is expected to be a focus of questions from senators weighing her nomination to be director of national intelligence.

L ong before Donald Trump rewarded Tulsi Gabbard’s loyalty with a nomination to be the next director of national intelligence, before her friendliness with Tucker Carlson, and before her association with the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad,

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was seated on the dais at Trump’s inauguration Monday, signaling a budding alliance with the president. Massie, the Republican who co-sponsored the bill to repeal the ban, posted a photo he’d taken of Chew from the crowd on X. “Tick tock, the TikTok ban is about to end,” Massie wrote.

Kash Patel to run the FBI? He “probably has a big misstep that is hanging over his head, but ultimately, he is in relatively good shape,” the member said, referring to Patel’s past penchant for compiling enemies’ lists and openly discussing legal vengeance.

Some Republican senators are still hesitant about supporting Gabbard over past statements about Russia and a trip to Syria

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, will face her confirmation hearing for director of national intelligence on Jan. 30.

Gabbard dissented from the contrived consensus on Syria, actively resisting the false narratives of the permanent national security bureaucracy.

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Tulsi Gabbard made hundreds of thousands of dollars from Republican-friendly media and advocacy groups in 2024, according to a personal disclosure. While canvassing the country as a top MAGA surrogate,

Donald Trump’s pick to lead national intelligence isn’t dead in the water, but she’s floundering and no one can quite put their finger on why, according to new reports. Despite holding multiple rounds of meetings with Republican senators,

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

Trump remains supportive but has told people it’s time for her to step up, people close to the White House say.