Brie Stimson
Fox NewsFri, 02 Aug 2019 18:00 UTC
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U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, defended her Democratic debate claim Wednesday night that President Trump is supporting Al Qaeda.
Gabbard cited Trump's "support and alliance with Saudi Arabia that is both providing direct and indirect support directly to Al Qaeda," when she spoke to Shannon Bream of
"Fox News @ Night" after the debate.
"How can you say Saudi Arabia is a great partner in fighting terrorism when they are fueling and funding terrorist groups in Yemen?" she added.
(Question begins at 2:48)
She said that Saudi Arabia is pushing for a war with Iran, which would be "far more devastating, far more costly" than the U.S. war in Iraq. Gabbard is an Iraq war veteran.
The congresswoman's remarks came on the same day that reports emerged that Hamza bin Laden, a son of the late Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, is dead. President Trump
declined to comment on the reports Wednesday.
Gabbard also spoke out against Google and Facebook, saying the tech company monopolies are dangerous to the
First Amendment protection of free speech.
She said she's
suing Google after the company "arbitrarily" blocked her Google ads for several hours after the first debate while she was the most searched candidate.
"People seem to feel that this is a left-right issue rather than seeing it for what it is, which is a free speech issue," she said, adding that companies like Google and Facebook "literally have the power ... to influence our fair elections."
Comment: Tulsi finally
had it with MSM 'Assad apologist' smears, which have not stopped since her
visit to Syria
three years ago:
Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard slammed MSNBC - and mainstream media in general - for dredging up her meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad every time she goes on TV, calling the endless repetition "propaganda."
"Every time I come back on MSNBC you guys talk to me about [Assad]," Gabbard said, clearly exasperated but not losing her composure. "It sounds to me like these are talking points that Kamala Harris and her campaign are feeding you, because she's refusing to address the questions that were posed to her," she continued as the host stammered and tried to interject.
Marveling that "every single time for three years" she's appeared on television she has been confronted with the dreaded 'Assad visit,' Gabbard finally shut down the hyperverbal host.
"This is where the propaganda comes in."
Gabbard isn't exaggerating - it's hard to find a clip of her from the last three years that hasn't included some self-righteous pundit insisting she condemn Assad for "gassing his own people" or "gassing children." While Assad is largely supported by the people of Syria, at least outside the areas controlled by US-backed militant groups, Gabbard has been wary of saying anything nice about one of the US' favorite bogeymen. Even so, she is routinely attacked as an "Assad apologist" by Western media.
The Hawaii congresswoman has explained herself hoarse that she met with Assad in the hope of working out a path to peace in the country. She has also made it clear that the Syrians she met with were united in their pleas for the US to stop funding the so-called "moderate rebels" that have laid waste to much of the country. Yet in Groundhog Day-like fashion, every time Gabbard appears in front of a TV camera, the host insists she denounce Assad and will not stop needling her until she does.
CNN's Anderson Cooper pushed her for nearly two and a half minutes to affirm that Assad was "a murderer and a torturer" during an interview following the Democratic primary debate on Wednesday, and rival Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has been pushing the Assad-apologist line heavily after taking a verbal beating from Gabbard on the debate stage over her abysmal record as California attorney general.
She went to iraq as a soldier to play a part in creating the vacumme, under bush junior's watch, that led to the rise of isis under obumas watch.
It's pretty obvious at this point the president has to go along with the war machine or else removed from office.
I think if trump wasn't playing the game he'd be gone already.
I would like to see gabbard win nomination and go up against trump, but it's hard to imaging anyone stopping the war machine. But I'd like to see her try.