DNI Tulsi Gabbard draws friendly fire from Republicans for video warning of nuclear war

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GOP Sen. John Kennedy, responding to Gabbard: ‘She obviously needs to change her meds’

By Gabby Deutch, Emily Jacobs

With a cryptic video that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted on X on Tuesday morning, the Democratic-congresswoman-turned-America-First-advocate reignited simmering concerns about the unorthodox intelligence chief among both her longtime detractors and some Republicans who voted to confirm her earlier this year.

“She obviously needs to change her meds,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told Jewish Insider of Gabbard. Kennedy, like all Republicans except Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), voted to confirm Gabbard in February.