Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday morning she is leaving the Democratic Party.
In a series of tweets, Gabbard criticized Democrats for their ‘cowardly wokeness’ and accused them of ‘stoking anti-white racism.’
The United States Army Reserve officer also accused Democrats of ‘demonizing the police’, ‘protecting criminals,’ ‘believing in open borders,’ and ‘dragging us even closer to nuclear war.’
“She also urged those who agreed with her to leave with just a month until the crucial midterm elections in a video attacking the institution whose members she claims ‘actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms,'” the Daily Mail noted.
Watch Gabbard’s announcement below:
…hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
…in leaving the Democratic Party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
Watch Gabbard’s full statement below:
The Daily Mail reported:
She announced her departure in the inaugural episode of her new podcast the Tulsi Gabbard Show.
DailyMail.com columnist Meghan McCain congratulated Gabbard in a tweet saying ‘there are so few free thinkers and independents left in this world and you are one of them. We are in your corner. Onward and upward!’
Gabbard ran for president as a Democrat in 2020 after serving she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21 and serving in the field medical unit of the Hawaii National Guard.
She deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and served in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as an Army Military Police platoon leader.
Gabbard, who used to be aligned with Bernie Sanders, has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference and appeared in Fox News.
In February, she received a standing ovation for her speech attacking the ‘power elite’ and ‘their co-conspirators in the mainstream media and the security state.’
She pleased crowd by saying that in an ideal world ‘our leaders would haul (former Director of National Intelligence) James Clapper before a judge to answer for his lies to Congress about how the government is collecting information.’
‘And they would support the Durham investigation and Clinton corruption in 2016… ,’ she said, not even finishing her sentence before there was raucous applause.
She went after both Democrats and Republicans in Congress ‘who talk a good game about civil liberties, but when it comes time to cast that vote on things like getting rid of secret FISA courts and protecting our fourth amendment rights to privacy, they vote on the side of the power elite and against liberty.’
In 2019, Hillary Clinton famously suggested the Russians were ‘grooming’ Gabbard, though didn’t use the congresswoman’s name.
Gabbard had quit her post at the Democratic National Committee three years before to publicly support Sanders, who was running against Clinton, and told then DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in an email – exposed in the Wikileaks hack – that she felt the DNC was rigging the primary in favor of the more mainstream ex-secretary of state, senator and first lady.
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