Initially, it was Matt Gaetz. Then it was Pete Hegseth. And then, the D. C. creation course has set its landmarks on smearing Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s candidate to be the next director of national intelligence.
The former Hawaii congresswoman has been the target of numerous dishonest and crazed attacks from some of the worst political figures in the country since being hired nearly two weeks before. The plethora of struck pieces and commentary designed to sink Gabbard’s nomination has been almost daily, from traditional media hacktivists to Democrats and neocons.
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Soon after the news of her election, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared on MSNBC to believe that Gabbard — a U. S. Army senior and military — is “likely a Soviet asset”.
” She is considered to be largely by most evaluations, a Russian property and would be the most dangerous”, Wasserman Schultz said. The host reportedly cut off the Florida Democrat and inquired,” Do you think that’s what you think she’s like?”
” Yes. There’s no problem”, Wasserman Schultz said. She would serve as the DNI, be in charge of managing our whole intelligence community, remain in charge of keeping all of our most important intelligence information and secrets, and basically act as a direct line to our enemies, as I believe she to be.
Gabbard has regularly criticized U. S. interventionist foreign policy, specifically America’s increasing involvement in the Russia-Ukraine war. Shortly after Moscow launched its offensive, the Hawaii native blamed “neocons” and “warmongers” for” stoking” the conflict and argued that the war” serves their own interests, and lines the pocket of the Military Industrial Complex with trillion$”.
” What we have, unfortunately, is Democrats, Republicans, the mainstream media, the Washington elite essentially in the pocket of the military industrial complex”, Gabbard said during a February 2022 appearance on” Tucker Carlson Tonight”. ” And rather than looking out for what’s in the best interest of the American people, our national security, our country — they see dollar signs when they look at Ukraine”.
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Gabbard has also criticised American intervention in Syria. In 2015, the then-congresswoman broke with Democrats to criticize what she called President Barack Obama’s “illegal, counter-productive war to overthrow” the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a Russian ally. She cited earlier U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Libya as warning that further involvement would lead to” the same mistakes of the past.”
( Gabbard reportedly met Assad during a 2017 visit to Syria, where she claims to have aimed to “achieve peace” and end the country’s internal conflict. )
Wasserman Schultz, by contrast, is not the only D.C. establishment figure to sway her as a Russian sympathizer thanks to Gabbard’s foreign policy views.
In 2019, Russia collusion hoaxer Hillary Clinton baselessly claimed that Gabbard, then a 2020 Democrat presidential candidate, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, are assets of Moscow.
” She’s the favorite of the Russians”, Clinton said of Gabbard. Since they are already a Russian asset, Jill Stein may choose to support her.
In March 2022, then-Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, accused Gabbard of being” traitorous” and spreading” treasonous lies”, after the former congresswoman posted a video on X with the claim that the U. S. was funding more than two dozen Ukrainian biolabs that are” conducting research on dangerous pathogens”. Russia cited the widely-reported allegations as justification for its invasion of Ukraine.
The Daily Caller claims that while there are “bioresearch facilities in Ukraine,” some of which are partnered with the Department of Defense,” there is no evidence that the labs were being used to develop biological weapons or that Russia was in need of invasion of Ukraine.”
By putting Gabbard on a watchlist and monitoring her travels, whistleblowers with the Federal Air Marshals Service made it known to Congress earlier this year. The revelation came” after the former Hawaii lawmaker and critic of the surveillance state criticized President Joe Biden on Fox News,” according to Tristan Justice of The Federalist.
Questioning Gabbard’s previous statements and policy positions is n’t irrational. She should have the opportunity to explain her opinions, make a case for her position, and answer questions about her past, just like she should any person who is being confirmed.
But that’s not what America’s foreign policy blob is doing. Because she dares to criticize their disastrous interventionist policies and poses a threat to the status quo, these evil actors are blatantly labeling the former congresswoman as a Kremlin operative.
Without disparaging her as a Russian-loving traitor, one cannot disagree with Gabbard’s position on any particular foreign policy issue. However, these cronies ‘ ultimate goal of preventing an outsider from eradicating the corrupt system they’ve spent decades protecting is exposed by labeling her as such and laundering other ad hominem attacks.
The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood
