Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) stated that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Trump’s choose for nationwide intelligence director, is “likely a Russian asset.”
“There’s no question I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset,” Wasserman Schultz stated on MSNBC on Friday.
The Hill has contacted Gabbard’s press crew for remark.
Wasserman Schultz’s remark comes as Trump has confronted some pushback over a few of his cupboard picks, together with his nod towards Gabbard as director of nationwide intelligence.
The position is a serious shift for the previous Democrat who has beforehand been accused of peddling Russian narratives. Gabbard has expressed beliefs that oppose the conclusions from U.S. intelligence, notably with regards to Russia and Ukraine.
Gabbard has shared content material suggesting that the U.S. was concerned in Ukraine creating organic weapons. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) stated on the time that she was “parroting Russian propaganda” and that her “treasonous lies may well cost lives.”
In 2022, she additionally knocked the Biden administration for failing to deal with Russian considerations amid its invasion of Ukraine.
“This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia’s border,” she wrote on X on the time.
In a 2019 interview, Hillary Clinton talked about Russian media assist in relation to Gabbard, labeling the previous congresswoman a “favorite of the Russians.”
Gabbard in 2017 met with Syrian chief Bashar al-Assad, who was accused of utilizing chemical weapons on his personal residents throughout the nation’s civil conflict. The assembly sparked anger amongst her colleagues in Congress.
Throughout her 2020 Democratic presidential marketing campaign, Gabbard alleged that Assad was not an enemy of america and declined to say he was a conflict legal.
