Tulsi Gabbard is heading to Capitol Hill to beg senators for votes. Like so lots of Donald Trump’s Cupboard picks, Gabbard has her work reduce out for her.
The felon-elect’s choose for director of nationwide intelligence has drawn crucial eyes because it has been revealed the previous Democrat has a penchant for Russian propaganda.
Former Gabbard aides informed ABC information final week that the Democrat-turned-MAGA apologist would recurrently learn and share tales from RT—a state-run media outlet previously often known as Russia At present.
Regardless of Democrats claiming Gabbard is a “Russian asset,” her former coworkers stated that’s not fairly the case. Nevertheless, the ex-aides do suppose that the previous Hawaii consultant has adopted some extra sympathetic viewpoints that align with the Kremlin resulting from her consumption of the pro-Russian media. Including gasoline to the hearth, the aides launched a memo, obtained by ABC, despatched to them in 2017, which echoed this stance.
Gabbard pointed fingers on the U.S. and NATO for frightening Russian aggression, criticizing the U.S. for its “hostility towards Putin.”
“There certainly isn’t any guarantee to Putin that we won’t try to overthrow Russia’s government,” she wrote. Gabbard added that she was “pretty sure” there have been some “American politicians who would love to do that.”
She additionally drew ire for a controversial 2017 assembly with Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad, who, as of this week, has reportedly been granted asylum in Russia after insurgent forces seized management of Damascus.
Hypothesis apart, Gabbard’s fame for commingling with dictators has drawn fierce criticism as she is poised to supervise U.S. spy companies and would have a treasure trove of the nation’s greatest secrets and techniques.
“Behind closed doors, people think she might be compromised. Like it’s not hyperbole,” one Republican Senate aide informed The Hill, including, “There are members of our conference who think she’s a [Russian] asset.”
However that hasn’t stopped Fox Information from drumming up their very own pro-Gabbard takes as nicely. The outlet has leaned on veterans and bashing Democrats as a method to prop up Gabbard. As Fox Information writes, many different shops have “attempted to paint Gabbard as a national security risk who is sympathetic to U.S. adversaries.”
Nevertheless, as a substitute of addressing the narrative additional, Fox has solely addressed these claims of dictator sympathy as soon as. The Murdoch-owned outlet seemingly buried any info concerning the accusations on the backside of a narrative bashing one Democrat for even suggesting Gabbard was related to the likes of Putin or al-Assad.
As for Gabbard, she isn’t the one one in all Trump’s picks on Capitol Hill this week vying for votes which may be stacked in opposition to them. Fox Information’ Pete Hegseth is on the Hill pleading to senators as he tries to accumulate favorable votes—regardless of being an alcoholic with sexual assault allegations amongst an inventory of different offenses.
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