Tulsi Gabbard, an Idiotic Symbol of our Republic's Collapse

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By David Shuster

There are dimwits, and there are damned dimwits. And then scaling the heights of stupidity so steep she inspires awe, there is Tulsi Gabbard.

A woman whose elevation to the post of Director of National Intelligence must have been the result of a lost bet or clerical error.

Ms. Gabbard’s title is growing more ironic with each passing hour, a disturbing parody in an administration already overflowing with incompetents. This “public servant,” in a feat of catastrophic idiocy, recently managed to out a covert CIA agent in Russia.

Not in a fever dream, or the confused fog of a drunken stumble, but with cold, calculated deliberation. Gabbard posted the agent’s name on social media, like a giddy teenager tagging party photos.

This is not mere malpractice. It is treason’s idiot cousin, gallivanting out in the open, waving an American flag dipped in lighter fluid.

As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Gabbard followed orders from President Dementia Don Trump and revoked the security clearances of 37 intelligence officials who had committed the cardinal sin of investigating Russian election interference.

In other words, intelligence officials who’d done their jobs.

And for this, Gabbard fired them and took away their clearances. Yet, in her zeal to conduct this purge, Gabbard failed to consult the CIA. She simply published the list on social media—with no vetting, no warning, and no regard for human lives or the national interest.

One of the names belonged to an undercover agent in Russia. Now exposed. Possibly hunted. Almost certainly compromised.

And with that name, every contact, informant, operation, and whisper in the agent’s Russia network is compromised too.

In any sane nation, this would be a scandal of epic proportions. (Democrats must make it so!).

There would be hearings, resignations, prosecutions, televised apologies, and retired generals thundering into studio microphones about honor and duty. But we are not such a nation. Not anymore. In Trump’s America, this was just called “Tuesday.”

Tulsi Gabbard is not merely incompetent. She is dangerous. She is the product of a political cult that views intelligence not as a tool for national defense but as a weapon to be used to boost the delusional whims of Dear Leader.

Under the Trump-Gabbard regime, the intelligence community’s priority right now is not China, not terrorism, not global stability — but Greenland.

Several news organizations—including onetime Republican and former Mike Pence national security advisor, Olivia Troye, who joined us to discuss this insanity on “Amped Up”—reported Trump administration agents were recently busted on the mineral rich island (territory of Denmark), engaged in influence operations.

Specifically, efforts to foment dissent. Never mind that polls have consistently found 85% of Greenland residents do not want to be part of the Unites States.

One might continually laugh at the Trump administration antics if the consequences weren’t so damn serious. This is not satire—it is self-destruction via unending stupidity.

Meanwhile, our NATO allies — remember them? — are turning their backs on the United States. Denmark has summoned our diplomats in protest.

And the Trump administration carnage goes well beyond Denmark.

Recently, multiple news organizations reported that Gabbard barred U.S. agencies (CIA, NSA, DOD, and others) from sharing intelligence on Russia-Ukraine negotiations with “Five Eyes” partners. “Five Eyes” refers to the post-World War 2 intelligence sharing alliance, comprising the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

For decades, the U.S. relied on this intelligence sharing alliance to prevent and defend against terror attacks. But Trump and Gabbard have now gutted this alliance in a move so breathtakingly asinine it could have been scripted by a KGB satirist.

Because, of course, protecting Russia—not America—appears to be the real mission priority here.

For years, countless lawmakers across the U.S. political spectrum accused Gabbard of acting as a Russian asset.

She parroted Kremlin talking points, undermined U.S. intelligence, and now, has quite literally, endangered the life of a covert officer embedded in Moscow. If the CIA had a retirement gift shop, Gabbard would be employee of the month—in Red Square.

And yet, Gabbard remains in office. Unfired. Unapologetic. Unfit.

The last time a covert CIA operative was outed by a White House insider—Valerie Plame by Scooter Libby in the George W. Bush era—there were special counsels, indictments, and convictions. Some of us remember.

We were there, including the trial at the D.C. federal courthouse. But under Trump? The Constitution is mere toilet paper and loyalty is measured not by truth but by Retweet, and total self-humiliation during North Korea-like cabinet meetings.

Tulsi Gabbard has disgraced her office, endangered national security, and made a mockery of American intelligence. She is a human wrecking ball in yoga pants, draped in the flag, with a hallucinating brain-like-substance full of conspiracy theories and a moral compass that points directly to Moscow.

She must go. Not tomorrow. Not after the midterms. Now.

The republic cannot afford another day of this insanity. The stakes are too high. The cost—already appalling—will only grow.

For the sake of every intelligence agent or operative in the field, every ally betrayed, and every American who still believes this nation can be something better than a punchline, Tulsi Gabbard must be removed.

Maybe the next Director of National Intelligence — if such a role still exists after this travesty — will not treat social media like a public execution ground.

Tulsi Gabbard is a treasonous moron. Enough already.

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David Shuster is an Emmy award winning broadcast journalist who is best known for his work at NBC News and as an anchor MSNBC. He is a contributor to Blue Amp Substack and co-host of our weekly show (Thursdays, 2pm et, on Substack), “Amped Up w/ Cliff Schecter.”