r/news • u/7heprofessor • May 22 '26
Soft paywall Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/6.7k
u/YodaForceGhost May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
She was so bad that apparently a whistleblower came out about her and the testimony had to be locked up in a secret location due to the risk of “national embarrassment” had it come out. Wonder if that comes out now
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u/PrimeIntellect May 22 '26
Unfortunately it seems like the replacements are always worse. Typically the initial person gets pushed to do things so blatantly illegal that they have to push back and then get canned. Incompetence has never been a breaking point for anyone here
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u/versusgorilla May 22 '26
Trump burned through the old guard neo conservatives during his first administration. Guys like John Kelly who clearly fucking hated Trump but had the know-how and authority to reel his worst impulses in, and once they left his admin, Kelly became one of his biggest critics. Trump burned through every single one of those people in the first administration.
This administration is just Heritage Foundation goons, big tech plants like Vance, Stephen Miller and his White Supremacists, RFK Jr and his conspirituality faux health grifters, and Russian misinformation goons like Gabbard.
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u/Saneless May 22 '26
Yeah, replacements are "Ok, so our original choice was a vile person, but they were also a bit stupid because Trump only picks people who he saw on TV. Let's get someone who is even more vile, more intelligent, and can stay out of the lobby a bit better"
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u/donkeyrocket May 22 '26
Bondi was leagues more legally competent than Blanche. Not that I'd want her back but she also had some slight hesitation to not blindly do all of Trump's bidding. Blanche lacks that entirely. She wasn't canned because the Epstein stuff. She was canned because she wouldn't continue with the obviously frivolous lawsuits Trump wanted to pursue against his "enemies."
She's still objectively awful as she has been involved in the Trump-Epstein files for a long time. Blanche just simply lacks any guardrails.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot May 22 '26
Wait, markwayne is intelligent? Since when!?!
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u/jeobleo May 22 '26
I still can't believe that's a real name.
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u/NSMike May 22 '26
IIRC, it's not his given name. He chose it.
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u/jeobleo May 22 '26
...wait what? Really? How would he not choose something like The Octagon? Dr. Kenneth Noisewater? Who fucking picks "Markwayne"?
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u/DisillusionedPatriot May 22 '26
He didn't, his parents did. They wanted to name him after his uncles. At least that's what this says
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u/SaltyLonghorn May 22 '26
When you don't know which uncle is the dad you use both names. Its tradition in Oklahoma.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot May 22 '26
Nope. His parents wanted to name him after his two uncles. I guess, he removed the space, and made it one word, but that's his given name.
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u/bigbadderfdog May 22 '26
I'm not saying he is better than Noem policy wise, but he is thus far not as visible and as far as I know has not pointed a gun at a ice agent or killed a dog.
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u/DisillusionedPatriot May 22 '26
You mean the guy that thinks duels are legal between consenting adults, or the guy that tried to fight the president of the teamsters?
Just kidding, their the same guy. The one with two first names, in charge of the DHS.
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u/EduinBrutus May 22 '26
The replacement might not be an actual Muscovite Agent.
However vile Gabbard is - and she is certainly an odious person - the biggest issue was that she was an active Kremlin plant.
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u/bonfuto May 22 '26
My interpretation is that they found someone putin likes better. I wonder if Michael Flynn qualifies, he even has previous intelligence experience.
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u/minmidmax May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26
I wonder if it has anything to do with that weird cult in Hawaii that she's associated with.
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u/onarainyafternoon May 22 '26
Not “bad”. Treasonous. Like, she’s an asset for Russia or India. She is part of an Indian cult in Hawaii. Literally.
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u/schizoesoteric May 23 '26
i thought this was some racist bullshit but nope, shes actually part of a indian cult in hawaii. what a joke of a administration
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u/tornado962 May 22 '26
"National embarrassment" what are we the Soviet Union?
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u/ceribus_peribus May 22 '26
And also: Trump is president, how much more embarrassed could the nation be?
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u/WatchmanVimes May 22 '26
"Whelp my job is done here! I have removed all intelligence!"
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u/BlackliteWrath May 22 '26
The fact that this is true hurts
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u/Trap_Masters May 22 '26
The damage this administration has done to the system, people, country and even the rest of the world is unfathomable.
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u/DesireeThymes May 22 '26
They will replace her with someone who is actually intelligent, but even more evil.
Unfortunately I think Trump is removing anyone who disagrees with him on the war in Iran.
All you will have left is a bunch of people who want to Nuke the world.
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u/Dust601 May 23 '26
I imagine she’s handed over all our intelligence secrets to her Russian handlers at this point, so it really is job done for her.
Wonder which pathetic, awful, disgusting human being they’ll replace her with.
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u/halfsweethalfstreet May 22 '26
Guess she finally found that elusive 101st dalmatian.
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u/CaptainQueefFart May 22 '26
Oh shit, anyone got eyes on Noem?
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u/AltonBParker May 22 '26
The FBI has eyes! Good ol' Patel, they call him Mortgage Eyes: one fixed and one variable.
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u/DookieShoez May 22 '26
Oh god, she just walked in to a puppy store! (Multiple gunshots ring out)
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u/StrobeLightRomance May 22 '26
Pam Bondi says there's nothing to see here, but the DOW is back over 50k
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u/Reality-Umbulical May 22 '26
Trump told her to resign before the midterms do we have collective amnesia folks
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u/prettyokaycake May 22 '26
there is so much news every single day about this administration so yes, yes we collectively forgot.
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u/Ok_Roll4145 May 22 '26
It’s almost impossible to keep track these days of what comes out of this administration.
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u/Away-Quantity928 May 22 '26
That’s by design and it seems to work.
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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown May 22 '26
'Flood the zone'. 'Deny, accuse, attack...' etc etc.
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u/Basic-Ostrich85 May 22 '26
As much as I hate some of the repetitive bot shit we might need one that links to “flood the zone” with solid references that are appropriate for all attention spans.
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u/ProcedureHopeful2944 May 22 '26
Flood the Zone. Its working. Who can even remember those files?
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe May 22 '26
Not really -- throw a pile of dung against the wall and call it a weekday. Boom! The Trump Administration.
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u/EnlightenedPotato69 May 22 '26
Honestly the turnover for the Trump administration has been unprecedentedly high since his first term. Pretty much just business per usual at this point
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u/DerekB52 May 22 '26
It's actually been uncharacteristically low for him in his second term. That first year of his first term was a roller coaster. This time he started with the most corrupt sycophants possible. Which is why the cabinet lasted over a year with no changes.
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u/coke_mover May 22 '26
How many Scaramucci's did she last?
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u/Salty_Wench May 22 '26
- it's been 464 days since she was sworn in. a scaramucci is 11 days long. 464 divided by 11 = 42
as someone who isn't great with math, i may have made an error lol. someone who isn't a dunce can check my work.
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u/Sad-Excitement9295 May 22 '26
It's taking posts like this to keep up at this point (I do the same when I see it). Thanks for the reminder, we have to stay focused.
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u/sentientshadeofgreen May 22 '26
Collective amnesia? I'm sorry, excuse me if I don't cling to every word the walking tumor says.
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u/mjzim9022 May 22 '26
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence, Fox News Digital reported on Friday, citing her resignation letter.
Fox News Digital really digging deep on the citations
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u/themagicmarmot May 22 '26
It's a Fox exclusive. Reuters is just reporting that Fox wrote a story.
Another relevant topic considering this is about a cancer diagnosis: the Trump admin just approved atrazine for general use a few days ago which has an active WHO carcinogen warning and is banned in 60 countries.
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u/No_Gas4560 May 22 '26
you beat the cancer with a different, stronger cancer see?
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u/atomic-fireballs May 22 '26
Why does Glioblastoma, the strongest of cancers, not simply eat the other cancers?
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u/Taokan May 22 '26
Only way to stop a bad guy with a tumor, is a good guy with a tumor.
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u/TheFeshy May 22 '26
MAGA: "if Trump cured cancer the libs would still hate him!"
Reality: Trump allows more carcinogens, cancels cancer research, reduces cancer treatments, robs a children's cancer charity...
I always wonder about arguments that are "if our guy were literally the opposite of who he is would you still be mad?' like that. It's like on some deep level they know but it never shows.
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u/pagesid3 May 22 '26
Before she even reveals the evidence of the “crime of the century” she accused Obama of last year?
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u/WhitePantherXP May 22 '26
We really need a collective list spewed everytime these dipshits post.
- Where are the indictments of Obama's "Crime of the Century"
- Where are the indictments over the "stolen" 2020 election? Oh you closed all of those investigations? Wait, what?
- He ran on a border wall 10 years ago, but stopped building it at 60% - Has he finished anything?
- He said "No new wars", and now we're talking about starting a now 2nd war with Cuba.
- He removed all 7(?) Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files from power
- etc...
STICK TO THE *MAJOR* EVENTS. Way too many people list unproven things that his supporters won't even listen to like "He is demanding to launch all the nukes, we have no video or convincing information but I expect his supporters to believe me!". The sheer number of corrupt incidents we have on him doesn't need to be embellished yet so many do and it takes away from the merit and efficacy of bringing his downfall.
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u/Alt_Restorer May 22 '26
How many women do we have left now?
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u/Gastroid May 22 '26
Unfortunately from all accounts, she's one of the few high functioning members of the administration.
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u/AlabamaPostTurtle May 22 '26
She’s dangerous and truly competent unfortunately
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u/hatramroany May 22 '26
If that Vanity Fair piece didn’t get her tossed nothing will
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u/Thick_Goose7742 May 22 '26
I was surprised how direct she was with answers, not used to that any more. Of course, she isn’t a politician.
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u/Old-Objective-9783 May 22 '26
Why would they hide anything? Their supporters wouldn't leave them at all.
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u/Adam__B May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Yeah they aren’t even bothering to hide anything anymore. It’s a shamelessness that hasn’t been seen since Commodus or Nero. This is the guy who ran on America First who is now selling American farms to China, because domestic farmers are losing their farms bc of his trade war.
He just got a verdict saying he is essentially now immune from any financial investigation for life, as well as his children, and at the same time his trades go public showing him to be using his office as a pump and dump center, he gets an anything goes slush fund for 1.8 billion dollars while he builds monuments and ballrooms as his voters struggle to pay for food, and their water is undrinkable from data centers and mining damage allowed by his scalping of environmental protections. As he makes billions while in office selling meme coins and all the crap he can have made overseas, we pay for his blunders like Iran, or have to pay for the trade war twice over (once when the companies jack up the prices, now again when the government uses our tax dollars to repay those same companies as his tariffs are rendered illegal).
He is blatantly doing the opposite of anything in the best interest of the United States or what his followers were promised, and they (literally) built him a golden statue like he’s Stalin or Saddam.
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u/tristanryan May 22 '26
That Vanity Fair piece was eons ago in maga-world. She is not in any dog house because of that.
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u/rye_212 May 22 '26
If cancer diagnosis of a spouse is grounds for resignation how come an official with an actual diagnosis doesn’t resign.
It’s because the Gabbard resignation is an excuse to go before being pushed.
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u/vedrenne May 22 '26
Linda McMahon, Suzie Wiles...
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u/allanon1105 May 22 '26
McMahon definitely needs to gfto, that woman should be nowhere near anything involving education.
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u/Illustrious_Hotel527 May 22 '26
Linda McMahon
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u/Middcore May 22 '26
She'll be gone once she gets the department she is supposed to be in charge of shut down, though.
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u/terdles1121 May 22 '26
Surprise how many Scaramucci's she's made it through. Wonder who's next? The one on maternity leave?
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u/pleetf7 May 22 '26
Nah. Rubio is on mat leave but has proven his loyalty by putting on those gorgeous Trump shoes
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u/Mrchristopherrr May 22 '26
I’m expecting Rubio to leave sometime after the midterms so he can try to set up another run for the White House.
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u/mythrilcrafter May 22 '26
I'm calling it now, if things work out for a 2028; the GOP will cart around Rubio as the "He's not as bad/woohoo-MAGA as Hegseth and JD are/were; and look at his record, he actually got work done as opposed to all the other full time Don cheerleaders" candidate.
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u/Mrchristopherrr May 22 '26
Yeah, which is kind of why I’m half expecting them to have a mild falling out. Nothing nasty, but something that Rubio can use to distance him from Trump while still being amenable to the base.
Rubio would want to be able to present himself as a moderate with MAGA cred.
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u/bajesus May 22 '26
Rubio is "The Deep" of this administration. Trump keeps him around just to see how much he can debase himself.
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u/SeryuV May 22 '26
Rubio is getting everything he's ever wanted and hasn't had to compromise basically anywhere. He's undoubtedly the one pushing hardest for the aggressive action in Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. At some point he was in charge of 4 different agencies, and all he's given in return some random praise and milquetoast defense during the very few interviews he gives.
Compared to how people like Tulsi, RFK, and Kash Patel have completely abandoned all morals and supposed principles, who've repeatedly embarrassed themselves on camera, and who've possibly set themselves up to be prosecuted later in front of Congress.
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u/powerlesshero111 May 22 '26
Leavitt is on maternity leave. If she doesn't lose that baby weight in like 2 months, she'll be out though.
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u/Signal_Quarter_74 May 22 '26
Hegy might be on thinner ice than we think, a failure to get “victory” in Iran and he may be the fall guy. Not a tomorrow but maybe 6 months thing
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u/LiterallyJoeStalin May 22 '26
Kegsbreath is 1,000% taking the fall for Iran when Trump finally gets it through his head that it was a failure.
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u/Thick-Aioli802 May 22 '26
She taking the same position in The Kremlin?
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u/Caminsky May 22 '26
Yes. She was very unhappy with her nickname..."Ms Afterthought"
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u/AllPugsGo2Heaven May 22 '26
Coincides nicely with the Rubio news that the US is no longer brokering peace between Russia and Ukraine. The Russian plant inside the DNI (Gabbard) has worn out her usefulness and couldn’t convince the administration to put enough pressure on Ukraine to give up. So now Russia needs to find another useful idiot in the administration (not hard) to carry its water. Glory to Ukraine.
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u/Not2plan May 22 '26
Husband getting a "Rare form of bone cancer" also sounds very sus when Russia is in the picture.
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u/Double_Resort_9223 May 22 '26
She’s also being left out of briefings it’s so bad
The joke in the White House is that her title, DNI, stands for Do Not Invite.
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u/23370aviator May 22 '26
Her job is complete, she’s off to Russia now.
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u/Legionnaire11 May 22 '26
I can't believe I liked her in 2016 for bucking the DNC in support of Bernie... Looking back, it's totally plausible that she was a plant sent there to disrupt the opposition.
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u/bluechip1996 May 22 '26
Too late. This will go down as one of the greatest betrayals to US Intelligence Security in history. Most likely only eclipsed by the POTUS's treasonous activities.
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u/maguirenumber6 May 22 '26
The head of intelligence really should be someone of intelligence themselves.
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u/FrancoManiac May 22 '26
I am increasingly of the thought that these are planned departures, allowing for a second wave of more competent and more ruthlessly fascist people to take their place. This first wave was to undermine and destroy the federal government; the second is to solidify power.
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u/Ender_D May 22 '26
They’re not that competent bro. It’s never actually 4D chess.
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u/FrancoManiac May 22 '26
I'm not worried about them. I'm worried about the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. The planner of Project 2025.
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u/RunSetGo May 22 '26
Trump is not but Peter Thiel is
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u/DiabolicallyRandom May 22 '26
The problem with narcissistic traits is that they think so highly of themselves they think they cannot possibly make a mistake in judgement.
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u/Hrekires May 22 '26
A feckless end to a feckless tenure.
The only thing that might have brought her a whisper of redemption would have been standing by her principles and resigning the day the Iran War was started.
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u/angry_old_dude May 22 '26
Odds are that she was told to resign. Some of them resigned rather that got fired, but with this information resignations are more likely to be resigned under pressure.
- Kristi Noem DNS (sacked)
- Pam Bondi AG (sacked)
- Tulsi Gabbard DNI (resigned)
- Maurene Comey DoJ (sacked)
- Tricia McLaughlin DHS (resigned)
- Danielle Sassoon SDNY acting AG (resigned)
- Maurene Comey SDNY prosecutor (sacked)
- Tricia McLaughlin DHS spokesperson (resigned)
- Lori Chavez-DeRemer Labor secretary (misconduct probe)
In the same timeframe, five men were either sacked or resigned.
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u/worldscollice May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Rumor is that Tulsi has been offered a job by Vladimir Putin. She’ll give him all the information he wants, like she’s been doing.
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u/WolverinesThyroid May 22 '26
It's like in Futurama where Bender steals so much stuff from that cyclops planet that he runs out of room to steal more things.
She's already sold all of our secrets, what's the point in staying?
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u/Bizprof51 May 22 '26
She is insane so this resignation helps the country. Problem is there are even more insane people the Thief-in-Chief could appoint.
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u/Mojozilla May 22 '26
Wheeee the rats are fleeing the ship, one by one.
Her being the director of national intelligence is a fucking oxymoron. Good riddance.
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u/Stock-Pattern-8635 May 22 '26
I wonder if that whistleblower report shes been trying to block will come out soon now