Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran’s nuclear program earlier this year.

The country was not building a nuclear weapon, the national intelligence director told lawmakers, and its supreme leader had not reauthorized the dormant program even though it had enriched uranium to higher levels.

But Donald Trump dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies during an overnight flight back to Washington as he cut short his trip to the Group of Seven summit to focus on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.

“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

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    He’s an idiot who has never been able to distinguish between his fantasies and reality

    He’s spent a lifetime making shit up, and never being held to account for it

    He’s a child, and what’s worse, he has dementia.

    He also lies as easily as he breathes. Truth means nothing to him. He sees being honest as a weakness

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    yeeeah… shrug, Trump ignores them all. And why shouldn’t he? They didn’t prevent him from happening, what’s the point of the CIA, NSA etc when they either knew about him & putin, and let hit happen, or, they didn’t know, even though it’s been obvious since the 80s?

    Nice job Intel community, you shot us all in the face.

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      him & putin

      obvious since the 80s

      I can see a major problem with that timeline, but I suppose wild conspiracy theories don’t have to make sense

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      The alternative is believing Israel’s government…

      And they’re an openly genocidal far right government made up of violent religious extremists…

      Like, America is bad right now

      But Israel has been on some straight up Nazi shit for a while now, because both Biden and Trump let Israel do whatever

      Saying Iran isn’t building nukes is the most pushback Israel has gotten since Obama was in office

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        So what? Just because she pushed back she’s now trustworthy? For fucks sake, screw your head on straight.

        Also why are you even intent on defending Iran, an openly genocidal far right government made up of religious extremists? There’s no good guys in this fight.

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          You don’t have to trust her.

          But if she says the sun will come up tomorrow, it doesn’t mean we need to plan to live the rest of our days in fucking darkness man…

          Like. You understand that right? Someone can be a habitual liar, but that doesn’t mean the opposite of everything they say is true.

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            I understand that, but it seems habitual liars are not lying only when it fits the narrative.

            There’s plenty of evidence that points to Iran building a nuke. They are not the good guys, so excuse me for being unconcerned about their literal dictatorship getting blown to hell.

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              They are not the good guys

              Please stop getting your politics from marvel movies

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          Iran is authoritarian and brutal but this is the first I’m hearing of genocidal.

          Got any examples I can look up?