Former Rep. Max Rose, D-N.Y., ripped Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Thursday’s “Deadline: White House” for her decision to send criminal referrals to the Justice Department for two individuals who helped trigger Donald Trump’s first impeachment. Rose said the former Democrat has abandoned her beliefs and principles simply to please the president.
“This is the price of admission to Donald Trump’s Cabinet in 2026,” the former Democratic congressman said of Gabbard’s move to help the president seek revenge against his perceived political enemies.
“First of all, you have to ignore the imperatives, prerogatives and principal goals of your agency,” he told Nicolle Wallace. “But the second price of admission appears to be that you have to embarrass yourself publicly. You have to focus on conspiracies, myths — things that do not matter and do not even exist — all to demonstrate your public fealty to Donald Trump.”
Rose, who served with Gabbard in the House, called her transformation from Democratic congresswoman to Republican director of national intelligence under Trump “sad,” highlighting that she appears to have betrayed some of her most closely held beliefs to stay in the president’s good graces.
He noted that Gabbard was previously one of the “loudest voices in the United States of America against reckless wars, against forever wars. And now, at a time where her voice could really be heard in opposition to this reckless engagement in Iran, she has been nowhere to be found, except in regards to these conspiracies.”
But Rose said Gabbard isn’t the only former Trump critic to have switched sides and joined the president, pointing to Vice President JD Vance’s past comments on foreign military interventions.
Rose, a veteran of the Afghanistan War, said that Gabbard and Vance have become, for Trump, “walking, living example[s] of someone that he has conquered.”
“They will embarrass themselves, they will subjugate themselves, they will lie, cheat — it does not matter, just to be in his presence. And so certainly, I think that’s part of the dynamic,” Rose said.
“In each of these instances, what these individuals have done is they have given up on everything that they believe in in the pursuit of power,” he added.
You can watch Rose’s full remarks in the clip at the top of the page.
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