Tulsi Gabbard goes missing from TV spots as Trump officials boast about president's Venezuela attacks
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 07 January 2026 12:13 EST
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was excluded from President Donald Trump’s team planning the U.S. military raid on Venezuela over the weekend, according to a report.
Operation Absolute Resolve saw Caracas hit with a series of missile strikes on Friday night before Delta Force commandos stormed a military complex to capture the country’s then-president, Nicolas Maduro, and First Lady Cilia Flores, who were subsequently taken to New York to answer narco-conspiracy charges.
The mission was reportedly planned for months in advance by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and White House Homeland Security Adviser Stephen Miller, with “little role” for Gabbard, The Washington Post reports.
While Trump was flanked by those men when he delivered a press conference about the operation from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida on Saturday, Gabbard was nowhere to be seen, nor has she appeared on conservative channels like Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN to celebrate its success as a range of Trump loyalists have done. The former Democrat appears to have spent the New Year in her native Hawaii, posting a series of photos of herself on X on January 2 practising yoga on the beach, and did not comment on Maduro’s removal until Tuesday.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-trump-venezuela-maduro-b2896242.html
As noted, she did finally post something lame on Xitter about it yesterday - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143594136
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