I'm not a Russian asset! Tulsi Gabbard makes bizarre boast during 2020 debate as she accuses U.S. of trying to fight 'regime change wars' in the Middle East

Daily Mail
October 16, 2019
By KATELYN CARALLE


Tulsi Gabbard defended herself Tuesday during the 2020 Democratic debate against claims she is a 'Russian asset.'

The Hawaii Congresswoman and Iraq combat veteran was a forceful presence when the conversation on stage turned to foreign policy, specifically the situation in northern Syria following Donald Trump's withdrawal of U.S. forces there.

'First of all, we've got to understand the reality of the situation there, which is that the slaughter of the Kurds being done by Turkey is yet another negative consequence of the regime change war we've been waging in Syria,' Gabbard said.

'Donald Trump has the blood of the Kurds on his hand, but so do many of the politicians in our country from both parties who have supported this ongoing regime change war in Syria that started in 2011,' she continued, before blasting members of the 'mainstream media' who she said have been 'cheerleading this regime change war.'

Gabbard traveled to Syria in January 2017 and met its dictator Bashar al-Assad. No photographs of their meeting have been made public.

But she went on offense against the media, claiming that the New York Times had called her both an 'Assad apologist' and a 'Russian asset.'

Just two days ago the New York Times put out an article saying that I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist and all these different smears,' she said during the fourth debate in Westerville, Ohio Tuesday. 

'This morning a CNN commentator said on national television that I'm an asset of Russia.'

'Completely despicable,' she said of the comments and then promised: 'As president I will end these regime change wars.' 

The New York Times appears not to have called her either epithet directly. 

This weekend it asked 'What, Exactly, Is Tulsi Gabbard Up To?' and pointed out that some Democrats are concerned about apparent signs of Russian support for her along the lines of the bot and social media activity which the Mueller report identified as having been given by the Kremlin to Trump. 

On Tuesday morning, CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers had said: 'There is no question, there is no question that Tulsi Gabbard, of all the 12, is a puppet for the Russian government.' 

Gabbard has made no secret of her opposition to any foreign engagement of U.S. forces.

She was deployed to Iraq in 2014 for a 12-month tour there, and as part of her ongoing duties as an Army National Guardswoman took a few weeks off from the campaign trail when she reported for active duty in a two-week joint training exercise in Indonesia.

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a fellow veteran however took on Gabbard.

'Well, respectfully, congresswoman, I think that is dead wrong. The slaughter going on in Syria is not a consequence of American presence, it a consequence of a withdrawal and a betrayal by this president of American allies and American values.'

Buttigieg, who like Gabbard has been deployed overseas as part of the military, said it was wrong to 'abandon the international stage' or 'think our only choices are between endless war and total isolation.'

He said many U.S. troops are 'ashamed of what their country has done' by abandoning Kurdish allies who served as a ground force to take on ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

'I don't think we should have troops in the Middle East,' said Warren. But she said the U.S. should extract its troops 'the right way,' then teed off on Trump, saying he has 'sucked up to dictator,' has 'cut and run on our allies,' and 'has enriched himself at the expense of the United States of America.'

Gabbard later appeared to try to walk back some of what she had said about the U.S. fighting 'a regime change war' in Syria or at least change the emphasis away from it and on to Trump's most recent actions.

Asked about the possibility of being the youngest president ever, she accused Trump of opening the way for Kurdish genocide, rather than highlighting her accusation that the U.S. was in favor of 'regime change.'

'What Donald Trump has been doing in Syria and what we have just seen with him, inviting Turkey to come in and slaughter the Kurds, show what an unfit president looks like,' she said.

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