Earlier today the New York Post (Murdoch Inc.) was reporting a cabinet meeting was scheduled to take place tomorrow at Camp David, in Maryland. The unusual location for this meeting stemmed from information the Post obtained via an anonymous “White House official.”
For some reason, every media report felt it was important to emphasize that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard would be in attendance at the cabinet meeting. Gabbard’s departure is openly well known and not expected until June 30th, but for some reason the DC media stenographers were quite interested in whether DNI Gabbard would be in attendance.
After about 8 hours, President Trump announced the cabinet meeting was moved back to Washington DC, due to an inclement weather forecast.
[WEATHER]
Terrible weather. Horrible stuff. 40% chance of rain even.
Cloudy, with a chance of meatballs.
During the eight hours between the leaked location report and the sudden reversal in venue, something else happened.
[SOURCE]
In this shifted role, State Department Counselor Michael Needham, a longtime confidant and aide to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, will now be the assistant to President Trump and deputy national security adviser.
Mike Needham will serve along with Rubio, who, in addition to being Secretary of State is also President Trump’s National Security Advisor. The National Security Advisor runs the White House National Security Council.
You may note, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), that would be Tulsi Gabbard, serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community and also acts as the principal advisor to: the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council, for all intelligence matters related to national security.
Deputy National Security Advisor Mike Needham will now assist in running the National Security Council while Marco Rubio remains in his dual role as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Needham was chief of staff to Rubio in the U.S. Senate during Rubio’s tenure as Vice-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and a Gang of Eight member.
I don’t know how to read this. Maybe, Rubio and staff were waiting to be freed.
Time is getting short.
I just want to add:
If you get a chance, read Jonathan Turley’s book, “Rage and the Republic.” It is excellent and there is so much in common with the French Revolution and the Jocobins to todays Democrats.
Sad.
Meatballs? What’s DeSantis got to do with this?
Rubio, I’m starting realize, is a seriously effective man in Trump’s trust.
I expect this to be a good move. 🤜✝️🤛
Was this also a leak trap? https://x.com/centcom/status/2059310640037269628?s=46
It was reported this morning then refuted by Centcom.
Release info to a subset of folks, track where the leak comes from, you verified your suspicion. Works nicely.
I may be having brain fog right now, but I’m not connecting any of these dots with a great deal of confidernce?
Should we be concerned, was this “Camp David” leak a mole hunt?
I was wondering if Solomon’s reporting was also a leak trap.
Hmmm, I’m gonna have to plug that data point into my brain machine & see if it’s also a puzzle piece.
Sooo….was this Camp David meeting a trap to find who leaks information?
Hahahaha. FAFO.
I thought I was being really slow then I saw how many other people were like…huh?
Now it all makes sense
OK, caught who???
Thank you. Have you ever witnessed a cabin that a wolverine terrorized it is something you must witness or you will never get it. Being from Alaska of witness two. I’ve seen several bear break-ins in remote cabins, but they’re just looking for the food they kinda nudge the door in and eat take a dump and leave when a wolverine does his thing it is obliterated never to be enjoyed or lived in again pisses all over everything and they are worse than a skunk. Just an FYI thank you sir.
My grandpa had a great “true” story about the time he keep a weasle at bay in a Newfoundland camp cabin by providing a small bit of food every few hours, lest he fall asleep and the weasel attacked him!
He was looking for a “bow limb” that he could use to make a fishing dory. Like a perfect Y formation for his new boat. He was also drinking off the sadness of losing his first wife…
It was a fabulous fireside tale from Grampa…
And the leaker is???
I guess we will have to wait for another leak to find out.
Is it my imagination? Or has Camp David fallen out of favor since…oh…the Clinton Administration or so? Used to be used for many high level meetings and conferences, allegedly because the Situation Room was so small, as well as some time away for the First Family. Now? Barely even mentioned.
Didn’t Obama go there to pretend he could use a shotgun?
I thought I once heard that PDJT just isn’t that into the nostalgia of it. I think it’s pretty small all things considered.
DJT is going to (or in the process?) of upgrading the Camp David golf course, of course!
Was Needham the one who leaked?
Sundance says that they caught “him” (the leaker) but I cannot figure out who is the leaker.
My thought is to look at who Needham is replacing with his promotion.
The fact that Needham has worked with Rubio before means he’s being brought in specifically because Mr. Rubio trusts him.
So who is the leaker? Needham?
https://x.com/KatieMiller/status/2059435198324854961?s=20
Pam Bondi has thyroid cancer.
I wish her and Susie Wiles well in their respective cancer journeys – wouldn’t be so callous as to wish that on anyone. BUT, it is time for both of them to focus on their health, period! They have done more than enough damage to the second Trump Administration and it is well past time for them to exit, stage left…
For those who are fretting over who the leaker was, wait for it. Most certainly the leaker is now being interogated, and the need to prevent a poison fruit from the tree defense all things must be held back for now.
Needham is not the leaker, but possibly the one who set the trap.
Thank you. I was trying to put “The Leaker” and “Needham’s Promotion” together and came up with nothing.
When you started laying out the factoids, I began thinking another hit / assassination attempt was thwarted.
Let’s hope it was a leaker identified.
Speaking of Tulsi & leaks, I read somewhere yesterday that she, who is not officially leaving her post until the end of next month, will be dropping some major ordinance before leaving the official government airspace.
Ordinances are laws. ORDNANCE is the nasty stuff!!
Thank you !
Leaker hunt
I can’t discern what this move portends, at least not specifically.
However pattern recognition suggests that Trump is about to slit another throat.
Not getting the connection between the leak trap and Needham promotion…
unless the person Needham is replacing, Robert Gabriel, is the leaker but he announced he was leaving five days ago and as a side note Susie Wiles was very sad about the news. So why the trap now?
Still confused.
Trump really doesn’t like Camp David.
He has something much better in Florida.
Before needham it was Gabriel
Robert Gabriel works as a deputy national security adviser and as an assistant to the president for policy. He works closely with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles as her “main consigliere,” according to Politico. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he served as her assistant. From 2021 and 2024, he managed Gabriel Strategies LLC, a strategy consulting firm that was hired by Trump PACs.
During Trump’s first term, Gabriel worked as a special assistant to Stephen Miller and later as a speechwriter for President Trump. Gabriel worked for a stint as a producer for the Ingraham Angle on Fox News and later returned to an administration job. He worked on the 2016 presidential campaign as a policy adviser to Trump’s national policy director Stephen Miller.
https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/2025/05/mapping-the-trump-47-administration-nsc-key-figures-and-leaders/
This is what AI tells me about the job.
Are one of those two the leaker?
Cloudy with a chance of bugs.
Leak traps used to be simple. Remember how Midway sent a message stating that their fresh water evaporator had gone down? That was confirmed by the Japanese and the US then knew what the target was going to be thus providing a turnaround in the war.
Chance of meatballs? Desanctimonious on the move?
When the music stops, everyone scrambles for a chair!
At first I thought Sundance was saying that DeSantis was somehow involved.