House Democrat Accuses Tulsi Gabbard of Being Loyal to America’s Enemies: ‘Very Long Affinity for Autocrats and Dictators’
Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) accused Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman that President-elect Donald Trump intends to nominate to serve as his director of national intelligence, of potentially being loyal to America’s enemies during a bracing interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta on Wednesday.
After being prompted to discuss Gabbard by Acosta, Crow insisted “this isn’t a policy disagreement.”
“We have policy disagreements all the time. You know, Donald Trump won the election, he’s going to be sworn in. He’ll be the next president, and I’m going to have all manner of policy disagreements,” he continued. “But there’s a few of these nominations that are-, have a deeper challenge that are more troubling than just policy disagreements, because we have to look at two things: someone’s competency and their loyalty.”
“And there’s different ways to be competent. As a head of an organization, you can have experience running a large organization, a business, and know organizational structures. You can be a policy expert. You know, there’s different models of that. But with Tulsi Gabbard, for example, she has none of these,” he argued. “You know, she’s not run large organizations. She’s not a policy expert. What she is, is somebody with a very long affinity for autocrats and dictators that are adversaries of the United States, somebody who’s dealt with conspiracy theories. And then the second is loyalty. You know, I question their loyalty to the Constitution versus their loyalty to adversaries. And, you know, every American should be really concerned about that.”
Gabbard backed Bernie Sanders during the 2016 Democratic presidential primary and launched her own campaign for the Democratic nomination in 2020 before dropping out and endorsing Joe Biden. She left the Democratic Party in 2022 and joined the Republican Party earlier this year.
The ex-congresswoman served in Iraq and remains a part of the Army’s reserve. She has long raised eyebrows with her defenses of and even praise for authoritarian adversaries of the United States, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
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