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Operation Midnight Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard has been on the outs with Trump ever since their clash over Iran. But through the conspiracy alchemy of Epstein and Russiagate, she’s seizing her chance to come in from the cold.

Tusi Gabbard
Ever since Gabbard undermined Trump’s case for bombing Iran—with testimony that the country “is not building a nuclear weapon,” and then a cryptic video warning about “political elite warmongers”—she’s been trying to crawl back in from the cold. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
July 24, 2025

Few have worked harder to get back into Donald Trump’s good graces than Tulsi Gabbard, his Director of National Intelligence. Gabbard, who occupies the point where the horseshoe of the political spectrum becomes a circle, has long been an enthusiastic champion of conspiracy theories. It is one reason that Trump appointed her to the role to begin with, much to the displeasure of the intelligence community she now leads.