Gabbard leaving ‘not a huge surprise’: Byron York

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation doesn’t come as a huge surprise, given her stance on some Trump administration policies. 

“She has never been really in line with the new sort of interventionist Trump foreign policy, and there were reports that she was kept out of the loop when decisions were made on issues like Venezuela and Iran,” York said on Fox News’s America Reports Friday.

Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas will step in as acting director, President Donald Trump said on Truth Social. Gabbard’s last day in the Trump administration is expected to be June 30.

“Even if there weren’t this serious family reason, I don’t think it would be a huge surprise for her to leave the administration,” York said. 

York argued that Gabbard was more aligned with Trump’s 2024 campaign of “no endless wars, not starting