Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

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Marco Rubio as President Donald Trump’s nominee ... for some of his other picks who have less support, including Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and vaccine skeptic Robert ...