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.
Jacobins make the Leninists look like Keystone cops. The literal derangement among Jacobins made it a true reign of terror. Sanity checked out of France for a decade or so, until Nappy brought it back on the point of bayonets.
Really. They killed 20 million frenchies?
And that was just the beginning of hard times for the French gene pool. Think Napoleonic wars, Crimean War, WWI.
Turley also does an excellent job contrasting why theirs went one way & ours was short of the guillotine.
Is Needham replacing someone? Is that someone the leaker?
Not quite sure how to read this
Rubio, I’m starting realize, is a seriously effective man in Trump’s trust.
I expect this to be a good move. 🤜✝️🤛
I agree. For many years here in Florida, he was as much a RINO as the rest and spineless.
What a change when circumstances change. He’s A+++ now!
I hope it’s a genuine change of heart and not political gamesmanship.
Mr. Rubio’s pedigree belies gamesmanship, Mountain Man. And he appears to have been consistent with his support of the MAGA agenda since he came over from the Senate.
Sometimes conversion is genuine.
And sometimes, it isn’t. It’s easy to be tough and assured when your boss is the one taking the blame. If Rubio ever became president, would he have the intestinal fortitude (El Rushbo) to stay the course on his new perspective or end up folding under the intense pressure from most all sides to permit amnesty, allow more migrants in, bring the H1-b visa numbers back up, etc etc etc.
There is no way of knowing. I can guess, though. Think HW Bush.
a reminder that we citizen voters need to continue paying attention
and adjust accordingly, meaning loudly and often, when persons and/or
situations stray away from MAGA
it should be a constant vigil
I don’t believe it genuine at all.
Especially after he called us stupid to question immigration.
Is there anything(s) in particular that you think changed him?
I think he bought into the McCain hero worship when he first arrived in DC.
It seems he has matured very nicely.
I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, Iron sharpens iron! ⚔️
Rubio was probably given an offer he could not refuse.
politicians are creatures of their environment. control their environment.
Marco Rubio has been a massive disappointment when it concerns firing Biden and Obama holdovers.
For example, Merrick Garland and the Biden DOJ coordinated with the National Archives over the illegal Mar a Lago raid yet despite Rubio being Acting Archivist of the United States until February 5, 2026, none of the National Archives employees who played an active role in the Mar a Lago raid have been fired.
Not only that but National Archives employees have been caught committing perjury in order to protect Biden and Obama due to their false congressional testimonies where they claimed both Biden and Obama successfully handed over all of their administrations’ documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, only for Biden to be caught hiding classified documents from both the Obama administration and his Senate career, in his garages, houses, office rooms, etc.
If Rubio was truly MAGA, he would have immediately cleaned house at the National Archives while he was Acting Archivist of the United States. And since Rubio is likely not MAGA, we still have deep state employees working at the National Archives.
Marco Rubio has no excuse for his apathy or laziness for letting National Archives employees get away with helping Merrick Garland’s illegal Mar a Lago raid. Even someone like Tulsi Gabbard managed to use her position as Director of National Intelligence to fire around 100 anti-Trump NSA employees.
This is why I still do not trust Marco Rubio because he continues to protect the Biden and Obama holdovers under his jurisdiction, while the rest of Trump’s cabinet members have already fired plenty of Biden and Obama holdovers in the executive agencies they are in charge of. Marco Rubio is unwilling to help President Trump clean away the deep state taint from the executive branch.
Nice armchair qb’ing! I too would like to see a ton more firings of derp stank bureaucrats. However, there can be strategic and legal/management reasons to keep even traitors close and in positions requiring them to cooperate in investigations. E.g., you’ve gotta get em under oath before you can catch em in perjury. The next 6 months are where the rubber seriously meets the road. I’ll give PDJT and his apparently trusted and able Lt Lil Marco the benefit of the doubt for that long.
Be careful, Red, not to become identified with 1793 Jacobins.
are you giving Rubio another job? hiring and firing?
He looks to me like one of the best we’ve ever had.
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.
That was my thought as well. Someone got caught and exposed bigly. I assume they’ll be transferred to an outpost near the Arctic Circle – lol.
I hope it was and they caught them..
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?
Robert Gabriel Jr. per SD’s X post
And Susie is very sad he is leaving. I just don’t trust her!
He held the same job that Needham has just been promoted to…
Thanks.
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?
Canary trap
Hahahaha. FAFO.
I thought it a bit strange POTUS was having a meeting at Camp David. I read he is not
very fond of Camp David. but figured he wanted whatever to be away from DC prying eyes.
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???
That is also my question .
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.
FIRED!!!
A weasel! H/t Reynolds88
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 recall that and him frolicking around the pool with a water gun.
gad
LOL…
Maybe Dead Eye Dick Cheney used the camp just to get some target practice.
That’s when he met Tim Waltz and cooked up some new programs.
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.
Not enough gold leaf in the decor.
Can you fathom the gulf that separates the surrounds and finishes between a “camp” in the woods and Trump’s normal surroundings? I bet he hates CD immensely.
Yes, I just cannot picture this POTUS in plaid flannel…..and I think Camp David is that type of place.
Too rural for the city guy.
DJT is going to (or in the process?) of upgrading the Camp David golf course, of course!
I get the ick feeling when I hear Camp David.
George Dubya used to spend more time there than Hussy Obola in Chicago’s gay bathhouses.
If you’ve ever been to Camp David, it is not an easy place to navigate in the Catoctin Mountains in Frederick County, Maryland. Used to have to travel the mountain to play Catoctin High School in basketball from Hagerstown.
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.
Sundance doesn’t say straight facts like that unless he is sure. Not yet prudent to say who.
Interesting that he would share it
Wonder who
Good that they are effectively weeding out traitors
So who is the leaker? Needham?
In a Sundance reply to the above post about a leak trap.
It’s interesting how fast Gabriel’s wikipedia page has been updated showing he is gone.
I bailed out of this thread a couple scrolls up. Went to wiki. Yep, that was fast over there alright.
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…
Its kind of curable with surgery and replacement hormones although I agree no one wants to wish health trauma on anyone…
Yes very treatable. Family member had it 30 years ago and is still kicking!
If Mr. Zimmerman of Bondi fame is not feeling some glee, I will wish Blondi well.
Isn’t it a bit suspicious there are so many with cancer diagnosis recently? Curious it is.
Clot Shot and boosters? The mRNA vax has caused turbo cancers, myocarditis, pericarditis, and so many more ailments. The data is out there and available to anyone from any number of sources!
Two dear friends of mine had the “vax” early on. One has early on set of dementia the other myasthenia gravis. Both are early to mid sixties. Very sad. .
Oh, no! 😞 What is your source?
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.
Robert Gabriel Jr
Just saw that thanks.
I cannot find a picture of Robert Gabriel Jr My Internet search came up empty. Wondering why?
When you started laying out the factoids, I began thinking another hit / assassination attempt was thwarted.
Let’s hope it was a leaker identified.
My thought as well. I was thinking about Iranian sleeper cells.
Exactly where my mind went as well!
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 !
Lots of ordinance are nasty, too.
Indeed, death by a thousand papercuts.
We want ORDNANCE! Kaboom! 😡
Well, maybe you mix them together.
Shaken. Not stirred.
Leaker hunt
Mike Hunt
“Is Mike Hunt here? Has anyone seen Mike 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.
I get the impression that he prefers palm trees 🌴 to pine trees 🌲. Warm weather suits him better.
He doesn’t like bugs.
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/
Gabriel was a long-time inside adviser closely aligned with Susie Wiles, who previously managed DeSantis’s successful 2018 gubernatorial campaign before transitioning to run Trump’s presidential campaigns.
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.
How did the Japanese confirm it?
How did the US know they did? Unless they confirmed it to us which seems goofy for lack of a better term.
Obviously I’m not up this, hence my question. Thx
The Japanese referred to their battle objective by a code name. When Midway sent the message about their fresh water problem the US code breakers saw that the Japanese mentioned that code name along with that news.
Midway was the primary target. The Japanese attacked the Aleutian Islands as a decoy. This allowed the US to move their carriers to defend Midway and the result was four Japanese carriers sunk.
84 years ago next week.
I figure God had a hand in it, too.
AF was the Japanese code for Midway.
If I remember the initials were AF. The Japanese for Midway. The US sends out a ruse message that AF was short on water. Then the Japanese transmitted it back that AF was short of water.
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.
Gabriel was a long-time inside adviser closely aligned with Susie Wiles, who previously managed DeSantis’s successful 2018 gubernatorial campaign before transitioning to run Trump’s presidential campaigns.
So when Wiles employs a DeSantis leaker and Trump catches him leaking, does the leaker get fired?
‘Abruptly exits’.
https://thekenyatimes.com/americas/trump-loses-trusted-national-security-aide-as-robert-gabriel-abruptly-exits-white-house/
Oh, that was almost a week ago!
I must be on the wrong target.
He is the original Meatball.
Planting seeds always produces a product.
Gotcha
Charges to follow so we will soon know hopefully
“the cabinet meeting was moved back to Washington DC,”
Got to keep messing with the A.I. algorithms that are gaming virtually everything. Which would explain VSGPDJT dropping that “F” bomb on Easter.
Just like me messing with the YouTube algorithm by playing CNN, MSNBC etc, when I am not home listening/watching.
And I am carrying a de-Googled Android phone that does not track me.
Where did you find the phone?
Through this man:
https://www.youtube.com/@robbraxmantech
He will have links in the hundreds of videos he has posted regarding privacy issues. He also offers secure website/server hosting, e-mail and VPN services.
e/os/ is a free open source deGoogled Android OS. https://e.foundation/
you can configure your own phone at link below, or just buy one with e/OS/ installed. I’ve had good success installing on Pixel phones from eBay.
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
App store lets you know what the apps are using/stealing from your phone. (Privacy Score)_
Their auto installer is very simple. Community builds are clean install too – if you do not mind command line. Be sure to have the proper drivers on your PC. Lots of support on that site.
Thanks to the both of you.
? Android is a Google product.
Android core was originally open source. True open source deGoogled OS projects reimplement all the Google services without the nasty stuff.
I keep my Consumer Cellular flip phone with me and even turn it off at night.
A headline today said, “TRUMP POSTPONES CAMP DAVID SECURITY MEETING!”
OMG…OMG! That sounds like BIG trouble…maybe the Iran negotiations are stalled for the umpteenth time or the snake that bit Bobby was poisonous, or…
Read the article and the meeting wasn’t postponed at all, the venue was changed from Camp David to the White House because of all those falling meatballs! Same people will attend, including Tulsi Gabbard!
OMG…OMG! Why will Tulsi be there? And if they meet in the unfinished White House Ballroom, couldn’t some of them be hit by those falling meatballs?
They say ‘no news is good news,’ so this MUST be good, ’cause it sure ain’t news!
I think President Trump has to fire him; he doesn’t have any choice. He is expanding his power, challenging the president. He was the one who told President Trump, “You have all the time in the world!” Then the president tweeted that out. Also, his personal cheering section right here started logrolling to bring in DeSantis, and the regulars here know “Little Boots” is a Sea Island guy.
huh? who does the POTUS need to fire? Rubio (“expanding his power, challenging the President”)?
Was Tulsi being targeted ? Are they scared sh!tless of what she is going to declassify in the next month? Was the location divulged in the hopes someone would be able to eliminate her?
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
I love the (weather permitting) leak identifier, and President Trump’s subsequent post sighting the possibility of bad weather.
Emily Goodin’s portfolio, on her web page, features Ron DeSantis, his wife, a deep dive with Marco Rubio, and personal Trump Derangement about the Ballroom.
A deep weeds dive with Rubio?
Trump issues chilling government-wide NDA – as leakers face brutal punishment
Donald Trump is planning to force all federal employees to sign sweeping non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in a dramatic bid to choke off leaks to journalists.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the HR arm of the federal government, published a draft NDA on Tuesday to be handed to staff across all agencies.
Anyone who breaks the gag order faces being fired, banned from future federal employment, and hit with civil or criminal legal action.
It bars workers from disclosing any non-public, confidential or proprietary information ‘whether marked as such’, covering internal operations and personnel matters.
The gag would follow employees for five years after they leave government service.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15850297/trump-government-nda-leak-punishment.html
A lot of jobs feature accepting an NDA as a condition of employment.
I see little reason the administration cannot enforce it.
Don’t accept it and lose any conditional access and security clearances pending reassignment to a basement office counting paperclips. Or they can resign.
Cloudy with chance and the meatballs could be a garage band in reolinda?
Rio Linda, on the CA Delta 😉
I love the smell of political intrigue in the morning…
It’s really the fresh garlic 🙂
Very, very strange cloud formation in the photo above.
I saw a Pinocchio nose on a face in the clouds.
Deep Weeds
suspicious cat doesnt like to pretend not to notice things.
who is the current gang of eight?
anyone? bueller?
https://legalunitedstates.com/who-is-on-the-gang-of-eight/
thank you sDee, much appreciated!
Lots of cancer going around…
🙏 all the day long.
That reminds me. I just remembered Congress exempted themselves from the illegal vaccination mandates imposed on us lesser people during the fake pandemic.
Now why on earth would they do that in the middle of a highly contagious and deadly pandemic.. dont answer
Reminds me of Rand Paul “grilling” The Fauci. I ‘m still suspicious of EVERYTHING.
There was another President who preferred a different location than Camp David for his time off.
President Reagan.
There it is.
Yesterday I read Wiles’ report of Gabriel’s departure, but it was from 5 days previous. He wasn’t around to be the leaker this time.
Yes, this has me very confused. Plus he has been with in President Trump since the first administration as well
Robert Gabriel Jr, the guy that was fired (Suzie Wiles was sad when he left) was replaced by Mike Needham. Cleaning house of bugs? Seemed both men had worked for Rubio in previous positions as well.
After seeing Sundance’s post on twitter leading back to the last Deputy NSA, leaving his post last week (Robert Gabriel Jr), it’s all roads leading back to Wiles? 🤔
We will know soon enough if this was a MAGA move or something else.
I have no qualms with Marco Rubio’s performance thus far in the Trump administration, but history has proven that no one leaves the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with their soul intact.
Back in confusion mode here. Read earlier that this was done to catch and leaker of which they did yet, Sundance, you’re reporting on a promotion, one of the gang of eight staff members no less. Always go suspicious when that occurs but its a Rubio man. What of the leaker?
Hmmm
“Little Marco.”
Did PDJT just put a leaker? Seems to be the case. He was setting a trap. Weather my ass. This was a better trap than return of the Jedi…..
Is the bigger story that Rubio’s aid got promoted, or is it that Camp David isn’t secure enough for a cabinet meeting?
The latter has me more concerned.
There it is, Cloudy with 2 meatballs…
After a nights rest I finally seen the light…
Thanks Sundance… .
As far as I am concerned – and, I’m not – they can meet at any secure facility they want. 🤷♂️ There’s a whole lot going on at the same time these days.
Perhaps the Camp David venue was a tracking device??