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13:19Now PlayingAttorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian cover Tulsi Gabbard's resignation as Director of National Intelligence, the fourth woman to exit Trump's cabinet in roughly 16 months, following Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Gabbard cited her husband's rare bone cancer diagnosis, but Brian and Shant trace the real timeline back months: Trump was privately polling cabinet members on whether to replace her after she refused to fully back the Iran war, her counterterrorism aide Joe Kent resigned in protest, and Roger Stone had to intervene to keep her from being fired outright. Gabbard, a combat veteran and former Democratic congresswoman who switched parties in 2022, was hired because she was useful: an anti-war voice, a former Democrat, a veteran. But when Trump went to war with Iran and she wouldn't cheerfully sell it, she became disposable. Bondi's tenure as AG was one of the shortest in modern history. By comparison, Biden lost two cabinet members in four years, one to retirement and one to a new job. Brian notes there's no playbook for keeping your job in the Trump administration. Shant's closing thought: Trump doesn't hire people because he agrees with them. He hires them because they're useful. When they stop being useful, they're gone.
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