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Trump says Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, will become acting US intel chief
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Aaron Lukas appears before a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing for his pending confirmation to be principal deputy director DNI, on Capitol Hill, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump says that Tulsi Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, would become the acting director of national intelligence after she leaves the administration on June 30.
“Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump says in a Truth Social post in which he attributed Gabbard’s impending departure to the illness of her husband.
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