Meghan McCain Slams Critics of Tulsi Gabbard, Just a Few Years After Calling Her an ‘Assad Apologist’
Meghan McCain slammed critics attacking Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday, despite just a few years ago suggesting she was an apologist for Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in a tense grilling on The View.
Back in February 2019, McCain interviewed Gabbard, who at the time was running in the Democratic primary for president. She confronted the former Hawaii lawmaker for traveling to Syria and meeting with al-Assad after his government had been accused of brutal war crimes.
“You know how I feel about your stance on foreign policy, and when I hear the name Tulsi Gabbard, I think of Assad apologist, I think of someone who comes back to the United States and is spouting propaganda from Syria,” McCain told Gabbard. “You have said that the Syrian president Assad is not the enemy of the United States… it’s hard for me to understand where you come from a humanitarian standpoint if you were to become president.”
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says “there’s no disputing the fact” that Bashar Al-Assad is a “brutal dictator” who “has used chemical weapons” against his people, but adds that amid the US’s “regime-change war,” the “lives of the Syrian people have not been improved” https://t.co/Y6QetTrzFB pic.twitter.com/s3a0OfJe7T
— The View (@TheView) February 20, 2019
However, the pair appeared to have forged a friendship since then as McCain recently posted a picture hugging Gabbard while claiming those attacking her are being “abhorrent” and “unpatriotic.”
“This woman is actively serving as a Lt. Colonel in the army and has put her life on the line for all of us,” McCain wrote on X. “The baseless slander is not only abhorrent but it’s unpatriotic. Shame on all of you trafficking in these lies. America will be safer with her in the cabinet.”
This woman is actively serving as a Lt. Colonel in the army and has put her life on the line for all of us. The baseless slander is not only abhorrent but it’s unpatriotic. Shame on all of you trafficking in these lies. America will be safer with her in the cabinet. pic.twitter.com/bQhqlmncr9
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) November 20, 2024
Following his victory against Kamala Harris, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Gabbard to serve in his cabinet as director of national intelligence.
