Tulsi Gabbard Aide Changed Intel So It "Couldn't Be Used Against Trump"

A leaked email has revealed that a top aide to Tulsi Gabbard quietly ordered officials to rewrite a damning intelligence assessment so it couldn’t be “used against” Donald Trump.

Joe Kent, the chief of staff for Tulsi Gabbard, was published by The New York Times on Tuesday, days after the newspaper reported that, in early April, he pressured officials to an assessment that found the Trump administration had no legal basis to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process. Wish this had come out before the Supreme Court sided against the vulnerable migrants.

According to the Times, Kent made officials lie on the intelligence report about whether the administration could justify the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to America's concentration camp in El Salvador via the misuse of the Alien Enemies Act.

The original analysis reportedly contradicted the Trump administration’s claim that the Venezuelan government controls the Tren de Aragua gang and has ordered them to commit crimes inside the United States.

To protect Trump, Kent allegedly urged his team to edit the report.

“We need to do some rewriting and more analytic work, so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS,” Kent wrote in an email to a group of intelligence officials.

“Let’s just come out and say TDA leaders are given sanctuary in Venezuela as their gang members commit horrendous crimes in America, then we can provide the context about our exact knowledge of relationship between TDA and the Venezuelan government,” Kent wrote to officials including Michael Collins, then the acting head of the National Intelligence Council.

Kent also slammed the intelligence report for failing to frame the situation at the southern border to spin the Trump administration's claims that the Biden administration caused a migrant crisis.

“TDA didn’t need logistical support from the Venezuelan government because Biden provided it for them,” Kent wrote. “I understand some may view this as political, but it’s not.”

Kent then demanded an edited version of the memo be delivered by the end of the week so that version could be declassified and handed over to the White House.

The leaked emails have circulated within the intelligence community and have “raised internal alarms about politicizing intelligence analysis,” the Times reported.