Tulsi Gabbard has just resigned from her position as Director of National Intelligence in President Donald Trump’s administration, in order to support her husband Abraham Williams, who was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.
“I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding and time-consuming position,” Gabbard wrote in a letter dated Friday. She also mentioned her resignation is effective June 30.
Who is Abraham Williams?
Abraham Williams is a Hawaii-based cinematographer, Steadicam operator, photographer, and video producer whose work include feature films, documentaries, commercials, music videos, and short films. He has worked on films like “Decade of the Dead,” “Down on the Sidewalk in Waikiki,” and “Angel by Thursday.”
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Gabbard had married Williams in a Hindu Vedic ceremony in Windward Oahu in Kahaluu, Hawaii in 2015. The wedding took place at the Pohai Ke Aloha Pavilion and Garden at the historic Kahaluu Fishpond, which according to Gabbard’s comments, native Hawaiian people depended on to feed the village.
Gabbard and Williams reportedly met when he worked on her campaign. “He volunteered to help out on the shoots for my campaign commercials. It wasn’t until about a year after I was in office that he asked me out for the first time. It was a connection that was immediate and natural, but we didn’t really see it before that point,” Gabbard told PEOPLE magazine.
Williams maintains a low public profile but shares select professional work through his photography and filmmaking platforms, including his Instagram account @abrahamwilliamsdp.
Gabbard, on the other hand, has had a complicated career. She was originally part of the Democratic party, only to switch to being independent in 2022, and going over to the Republican side in 2024.
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While Gabbard was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence during Trump’s second term, she was reportedly sidelined last June, when Trump endorsed Israel’s decision to attack Iran before the U.S. joined the war by ordering the bombing of the Islamic regime’s nuclear facilities. This was a repudiation of Gabbard’s earlier testimony that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon. Trump then declared he did not care what she said, and dismissed her assessment as “wrong.”
In her resignation letter, Gabbard called Williams her “rock” throughout their eleven years of marriage, “standing steadfast through my deployment to East Africa on a Joint Special Operations mission, multiple political campaigns and now my service in this role.”
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