Tulsi Gabbard’s former aides say she ‘regularly read and shared’ Russia Today propaganda
Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for director of national intelligence, is a regular consumer of content from the propaganda outlet Russia Today, three ex-aides told ABC News this week. The former advisers told journalists that Gabbard’s “unorthodox media consumption habits” — not “some covert intelligence recruitment as far as they know” — are the most likely reason for her controversial views on the Ukraine war, which some critics say suggests that the politician and former U.S. Army officer could be “a Russian asset.”
Alexa Henning, a spokesperson for the Trump transition team, later dismissed the comments from the “former, conveniently anonymous, disgruntled staffers,” saying that “Lieutenant Colonel Gabbard's views on foreign policy have been shaped by her military service and multiple deployments to war zones.”