Former Democrat has spoken about Russia’s ‘legitimate security concerns’ about Ukraine and played down Syria’s used of chemical weapons
Tony Diver US Editor
13 November 2024 11:41pm GMT
On the day Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine, kickstarting two years of ongoing misery in the region, politicians in Washington were practically unanimous in their condemnation of Vladimir Putin’s aggression.
One notable exception was Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, and military veteran who had run a failed campaign for president in 2020, but has now been picked as Donald Trump’s intelligence chief.
“This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if [the Biden administration and] Nato had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of Nato,” she tweeted.
That statement was only the latest of a series of outlandish stances on foreign policy, including her scepticism about chemical weapons attacks in Syria that followed two controversial meetings with Bashar al-Assad.
After leaving the Democratic Party in October 2022, Ms Gabbard has undergone a remarkable conversion to become one of Mr Trump’s most loyal allies.
Her nomination as the next director of national intelligence on Wednesday could bring about the biggest shake-up of the American spying community in decades.
Military industrial complex
Since joining the Republican Party earlier this year, Ms Gabbard has accused the government of being complicit in a “military industrial complex” and has railed against the “foreign policy establishment in Washington”.
Soon after Jan 20, if her nomination is confirmed by the Senate, she is set to join that establishment as its leader.
The DNI oversees the US’s 18 intelligence agencies, from the leviathan FBI and NSA to the more obscure National Reconnaissance Office.
The position was created in the aftermath of 9/11, and has never been held by a politician with such contempt for the intelligence activities they oversee.
In 2015, Ms Gabbard raised eyebrows at the CIA, when she tried to introduce legislation to block the agency’s activities in Syria. The plan was blocked by congressional committees.
Four years later, she called on the US government to drop charges against Julian Assange, the Australian journalist and Wikileaks founder who published thousands of classified intelligence documents on the internet. She then called for the pardoning of Edward Snowdon, an NSA employee who supplied much of the material
She has also pushed a Kremlin-backed conspiracy theory that Ukraine was developing US-backed biological weapons laboratories.
These positions will not make her popular in the US intelligence community, and her appointment is likely to face significant opposition in the Senate before Mr Trump takes office next year.
That is one evil skank. A ruZZian agent hiding in plain sight. Whether defacto or actual is immaterial from a Ukrainian standpoint.
The CIA would be insane to share intel with this traitor.
This far left conspiracy theorist is the latest in a very long line of dreck who want Ukraine dead to get a top job.
Also hanging around Mar-A-Lago waiting for the call is Moscow Marge.
Another far left conspiracy theorist lunatic Ukraine-hater about to get a job is RFJ Jr, who is critical of Trump’s diet. Telegraph:
“Donald Trump never drinks water and his fast-food diet is like “poison”, according to Robert F Kennedy Jr who is vying for the role of food safety tsar in the president-elect’s Cabinet.
In a new interview, Mr Kennedy said the food Mr Trump consumed on the election campaign trail was “really, like, bad”.
And he compared the president-elect’s fast food favourites, KFC and McDonald’s, to “poison”.
Mr Kennedy, who is also known as RFK Jr, had been expected to become the White House’s food safety czar as part of the next administration, after dropping his own presidential ambitions to endorse Mr Trump.
“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Mr Kennedy told the Joe Polish Show.”
This coming from a guy who ate dog meat containing a worm that entered his brain.
The orange felon is filling his staff with people who are his personal ass lickers and not very good at anything else. We’ll see how bad this administration will be for the country, and especially the millions of brainless morons who voted for the orange crook. In a couple of years, most will deny having voted for the parasite.
John Bolton describes it as “fealty.” :-
Indy:
“John Bolton said that rather than having “loyalty” from those selected to serve in his new administration, Trump would prefer “fealty,” referring to a swearing of unwavering allegiance to a feudal lord or leader.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-bolton-trump-administration-picks-b2646607.html?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=embed1
Sure, that’s another good way of putting it. The orange lord and his lowly servants.