The Trump government manages internal different opinion about deliberations about whether or not to launch a strike against Iran, where many supporters were broken as a campaign blade to not involve the US in new conflicts in the middle -east.
This week Trump ignored the testimony by his director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, which Iran had not wanted to build nuclear weapon from March this year.
“She is wrong,” Trump said and added, “My intelligence community is wrong.”
In a striking sight, Gabbard said on Friday that her testimony of March had been “” from the context “taken by the media and claimed that there was no difference between her opinion and Trump.
“The unfair media are deliberately removing my testimony from the context and spreading fake news as a way to produce division,” she said in a post on X.
“America has intelligence that Iran is about to produce a nuclear weapon within a few weeks to months, if they decide to complete the meeting. President Trump has been clear that cannot happen, and I agree.”
Gabbard was largely nominated in her position because of her skepticism of the American intelligence community and her role in the involvement of the US in a series of “wars forever” in the middle, especially the war in Iraq.
Her transition from Democrat to Trump supporter is an indication for the broad coalition that the president has united under his first movement of his America – and the potential for a schism as the US grows closer to launching an attack on Iran.
Steve Bannon, an influential adviser who was critical of the potential for an American war, was seen this week with Trump in the White House, after a series of podcast episodes in which he and other popular Maga experts criticized what they saw in preparations for a preventive American strike against Iran.
Bannon came to the lunch armed with talk points that the Iran strike would be a bad idea and the massive bombs of 30,000 pound bunker-buster that can focus on the Iranian uranium enrichment facility in Fordow cannot destroy the target.
The Guardian reported earlier that Trump was not entirely convinced that the bombs would destroy the target and has kept the authorization of strikes because he is also waiting for the possibility that the threat of the US’s involvement would lead to conversations.
Others close to the administration have been pushed back vigorously to support a strike on Iran.
Republican congress members including Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton have been taken against the isolationist wing of Trump’s support; The radio presenter Mark Levin personally spoke with Trump to support a stronger support for Israel; And other top members of the administration – including State Secretary Marco Rubio – are around Iran Hawks.
Others, such as vice-president JD Vance, are public anti-interventionists, but have limited their criticism of potential strikes to have Trump take the space to make a decision.
But Bannon is supposed to have a major influence on Trump’s decision -making about the war. According to the American media, he warned the president that he should not trust Israeli intelligence that the Iranian government was looking for a nuclear weapon.
Others in the Maga wing of Trump’s support have tried to rebuild the ties after they sharply criticized the positioning of the president on Israeli strikes against Iran. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News -Gastheer, had called Trump earlier this week to apologize after destroying those who advised Trump to launch strikes against Iran as “WIJLONGERS”.
“Tucker is a nice guy,” Trump said from the Oval Office on Wednesday. “He recently called and apologized because he thought he said things that were a bit too strong, and I appreciated that.”
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