President Donald Trump on Friday said Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was “wrong” on Iran’s nuclear program.
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Gabbard told lawmakers in March that U.S. spy agencies believed that Iran hadn’t made a decision to build a nuclear weapon.
Speaking to reporters after touching down in New Jersey, Trump was asked about that assessment and responded, “Then my intelligence community was wrong.”
When told it was Gabbard who had said that, he responded, “She’s wrong.”
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Trump also expressed doubts about Iran’s need a civilian-use nuclear power program.
“They’re sitting on top of one of the largest piles of oil in the world. I just don’t know why they’d need that for civilian purposes,” Trump told reporters when asked about Iran developing nuclear capabilities for use to generate power and other civilian pursuits.
“You’re sitting on one of the largest oil piles anywhere in the world,” the president added. “It’s a little bit hard to see why you’d need that.”
