Former Democratic congresswoman, 43, has been publicly suspected of being ‘groomed’ by Russia
Tulsi Gabbard’s biography has some rare distinctions, including being the first Samoan and the first Hindu elected to the US Congress, where she sat between 2013 and 2021 as the Democratic representative for Hawaii.
Referring to supposed Russian interference, Clinton told the former Barack Obama adviser David Plouffe: “I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favourite of the Russians.” Gabbard’s attacks on US foreign policy originally chimed with many on the left. She was a surrogate for Bernie Sanders, the progressive senator for Vermont, in his 2016 Democratic primary campaign and even delivered his nomination speech at that year’s national party convention in Philadelphia.
Later that year, Gabbard quit the Democratic party to become an independent, saying the party was run by an “elitist cabal of warmongers” and “woke” ideologues., became a contributor to Fox News and started her own podcast – all moves seemingly tailor-made to bring her into the orbit of Trump, whom she eventually endorsed.
Now, without intelligence experience or even having served as a member of House intelligence committee, she has been chosen to sit at the top of a pyramid overseeing the CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency, among other organisations.
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