The decision came as little surprise to anyone who has followed her political trajectory from Democratic presidential candidate to darling of Russian propagandists and the American far-right. To understand her ambitions, her aunt Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard tells The Independent in an interview that it is necessary to look to her upbringing in a secretive cult called the Science of Identity Foundation SIF whose members show absolute loyalty to a reclusive guru, Chris Butler.
In her keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference back in February, Tulsi Gabbard described the various ways she had been smeared by her political opponents. White supremacist. Gabbard is a veteran who served a tour of Iraq, still serves with the National Guard, and has spoken about how witnessing first-hand the horrors of war led her to take an anti-interventionist stance on US foriegn policy.
This baseless claim echoed Russian propaganda that the United States was funding labs in Ukraine to make illegal biological weapons for use against Russia. Gabbard was not deterred, telling Jesse Watters on 15 March that freedom of speech in the US was at similar risk to Russia, which has banned all criticism of the government and imprisoned tens of thousands of protestors.
And in March, it was revealed that Elena Branson, a dual US-Russian citizen accused of spying for the Kremlin, donated to her campaign for reelection to Congress in Third grade? How about 12th grade—or not at all. Meanwhile, schools are failing: 1 in 4 graduates is functionally illiterate. Parents should raise their kids, not the government. In , she flew to Syria to meet with the dictator Bashar al-Assad as he was waging a brutal war against his own people.
She has courted Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, whose regime has killed and imprisoned thousands of subjects since assuming power in a coup in And the authoritarian-leaning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent a personal emissary to her wedding in Hawaii.
