TRUMP: “Before asking Vice President Vance to speak about these efforts, I want to express our tremendous gratitude to our outgoing Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who’s a terrific person, actually.”
[Room erupts into a long applause]
“She’s come up with some findings that were pretty good.”
“And Tulsi has worked tirelessly to restore trust and focus on the intelligence and with the intelligence community.”
“They all respected her! They listened to her. She gave us leads that were pretty much...people thought they were dead and they weren’t dead. They were right there.”
“And she was able to expose a lot of things that we used at the FBI with Kash and with Todd and with JD and everybody else.”
President Trump delivers one of the most heartfelt moments ever to take place in the White House Cabinet Room when he thanked outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard for her service.
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The entire room ERUPTED into applause as Trump took nearly two minutes to praise her work.
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