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        "msgid": "trump-aide-resigns-again-us-intelligence-chief-steps-down-1779533737",
        "date": "2026-05-23 09:45:00",
        "title": "Trump Aide Resigns Again: US Intelligence Chief Steps Down",
        "author": "",
        "source": "CNBC",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Tulsi Gabbard, the United States\u2019 Director of National Intelligence, has resigned in a letter to President Donald Trump to support her husband, who has been diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. The resignation takes effect on 30 June 2026, with Aaron Lukas as acting DNI. Gabbard, a former Hawaii congresswoman who switched from Democratic to Republican, led the U.S. intelligence community; her departure adds to a year of senior Trump aides leaving or being dismissed.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia \u2014 United States Director of National\nIntelligence Tulsi Gabbard has resigned. Gabbard\u2019s resignation letter to\nPresident Donald Trump was accepted on Friday (22 May 2026). In the\nletter, she said she must step down to support her husband, Abraham\nWilliams, who was recently diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. \u201cI\ncannot in good conscience ask him to face this struggle alone while I\nremain in this demanding and time-consuming position,\u201d she wrote, cited\nby CNBC International, Saturday (23 May 2026). The resignation takes\neffect on 30 June 2026. Trump then confirmed on Friday that Gabbard had\nresigned and wrote in a Truth Social post that she had, \u201cdone an\noutstanding job, and we will miss her.\u201d Deputy DNI Aaron Lukas will\nassume the role of acting head, Trump wrote in the post. Gabbard is a\nformer Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii who clashed with her party\nand later joined the Republican Party, appointed as DNI less than a\nmonth after Trump\u2019s second term began. As DNI, she led the U.S.\nintelligence community, a broad coalition of 18 agencies and\norganisations. Gabbard is a veteran who served in the Middle East, had\nsupported Trump in 2024 on anti-intervention grounds, praising him as a\npeacemaker while criticising former Democratic President Joe Biden over\nconflicts that began during his tenure. When Trump sought to strike Iran\nto disable its nuclear capabilities last summer, Gabbard released a\nvideo warning about, \u201cthe warmongers who recklessly trigger fear and\ntensions between nuclear powers.\u201d The video angered Trump, as Politico\nreported at the time. When later asked that month about Gabbard\u2019s Senate\ntestimony that Iran was not seeking to build a nuclear bomb, Trump\nreplied, \u201cI don\u2019t care what she says,\u201d and then said, \u201cShe\u2019s wrong.\u201d\nGabbard also drew attention for appearing at an FBI raid at a Georgia\nelection office in late January that led to the seizure of 2020 election\nrecords. For years, Trump had falsely stated that the 2020 election,\nwhich he lost to Biden, had been rigged against him. The announcement of\nGabbard\u2019s resignation adds to the growing list of senior Trump\nadministration officials who have left or been dismissed this year. More\nthan a month earlier, Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned as Secretary of\nLabour to take a private-sector role. In early April, Trump fired\nAttorney General Pam Bondi, who faced pressure over his handling of\nissues related to the Jeffrey Epstein sexual offender. She was\ntemporarily replaced by her deputy Todd Blanche, and former Trump\ndefence attorney. In March, Trump fired Kristi Noem, who led the\nDepartment of Homeland Security, following national controversy\nsurrounding her handling of aggressive immigration enforcement policy in\nAmerican cities.<\/p>",
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