U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to reporters Friday beside Air Force One, where he was asked whether he possessed any intelligence indicating that Iran was building nuclear weapons—despite prior statements from American intelligence agencies asserting they had no such evidence.
In response, Trump said, “Then my intelligence agencies are wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?”
A journalist replied, “Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.”
Trump promptly responded, “She’s wrong.”
Earlier in March, Gabbard had told Congress that, according to U.S. intelligence agencies, Iran had not resumed its nuclear weapons program, which it had suspended back in 2003. However, she noted that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had reached its highest level, a material essential for producing nuclear weapons.
