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Democratic senators have raised concerns over Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence, citing her past meetings with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and her embrace of Russian talking points.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Gabbard shared a video echoing a false Kremlin claim that the U.S. was funding biological weapons labs in Ukraine.

A former Democratic congresswoman and critic of U.S. foreign policy, Gabbard recently joined the Republican Party and would now oversee 18 intelligence agencies and prepare the President’s Daily Brief.

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      5 months ago

      As Stephen Colbert used to say, reality has a Russian bias.

      Do you mean when he was a fake conservative on a show making fun of Fox News?

      You do know that show was all fake, right?

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              5 months ago

              Nice word salad there, but you still dishonestly put your words in his mouth and attributed them to him.

              Also, taking out a letter doesn’t make your bigoted ableism any less bigoted.

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                  5 months ago

                  That wasn’t a paraphrase because his quote had nothing to do with Russia and never did. I have no idea why you’re going down this pathetic “what are you going to believe, me or your own eyes” road.