Tulsi Gabbard in 2020: To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u. Stand with me against Trump’s Iran War!
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in March 2025: The Intelligence Community continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.
And now in 2026, how does Tulsi Gabbard, who opposed the Iraq War, condemned US regime change wars, and sold “No War With Iran” t-shirts, respond when President Trump starts bombing Iran to prevent the use of nuclear weapons that her own department found to be nonexistent?
Let’s check the tape from her disastrous Senate hearing this week:
Congressman: Last year you testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Do you stand by statement?
Gabbard: Context matters—
Congressman: You either stand by it or not.
Gabbard: It’s a serious question—
Congressman: Was Iran weeks away from achieving a nuclear weapon?
Gabbard: It would be a disservice to the American people to answer with a mere yes or no.
Congressman: Were you lying or not?
Gabbard: I stand by the IC assessment.
So the once anti-war Tulsi Gabbard, the first guest ever on Useful Idiots back in the Rolling Stone days, refuses to stand up to the administration, officially becoming a key player in the USA WMD Hoax Part Two.
To her credit though, she didn’t outright lie and say Iran was close to having nuclear weapons. That honor goes to the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe.
Congressman: Was Iran developing a nuclear weapon prior to our military action last June and did Iran remain committed to developing a nuclear weapon in the lead-up to this conflict?
Ratcliffe: Yes.
Congressman: If left unchecked, do you think Iran would have the ability to develop missiles capable of reaching the United States?”
Ratcliffe: Yes.
We’ve got one who lies and another who contradicts those lies in a perfect microcosm of the disastrous discohesion of the Trump administration’s war-of-choice against Iran.
Also in this Friday Free-for-All: antisemitism-whisperer Jake Tapper accuses the recently-resigned Director of Counterterrorism Joe Kent of, you guessed it, antisemitism, for claiming Israel pushed the US into war with Iran, Fox News says Iranians are begging US-Israeli bombs to rain down on their own country, and a weird ADL panel complains that all the “cool kids” are against genocide.
It’s a mess of a week. Katie and Aaron are standing up to make fun of it all. It’s the Friday Free-for-All, subscribe to support independent media and watch the full episode here:
