Tulsi Gabbard accuses Democrats of abuse of power, banana republic tactics

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) criticized her old Party Sunday morning in a fifty-second video which she posted to X. She accused Democrats of abuse of power, and of turning the United States of America into a “banana republic.”

Tulsi Gabbard rounds on Democrats

Tulsi Gabbard posted her remarks at 5:07 a.m. EDT Sunday (September 24).

The post embeds a fifty-second video with large-print subtitles.

Anyone who’s looking at what’s happening with clear eyes and an open mind can recognize how overtly they are trying to keep President [Donald J.] Trump off of (sic) the campaign trail, to keep him away from being able to make his case to voters in this country, of why they should elect him as President and Commander-in-chief once again. They’re afraid he could actually win, which is why they’re committing this such (sic) egregious abuse of power that cuts so much deeper than going after President Trump. Because what they’re really doing is setting this precedent that puts the United States of America not on a high platform of trying to be an example of democracy to the world, but of reducing our great country to none other than a banana republic and an [abuse of] power that we see happening in other countries around the world.

In reply, someone tried to make an issue, yet again, of Trump taking classified documents from the White House on his last day. Another user offered an education into the precedent stating clearly that Presidents can take whatever documents they please when leaving. Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration, 1:10-cv-01834 (2012). (See memorandum opinion and dismissal of appeal.)

Tulsi Gabbard ran for President in 2020, and won the not-quite endorsement of 2016 Constitution Party Presidential candidate Darrell Castle. She lost the nomination to Joe Biden. But as far back as 2019, she was criticizing her Party for running a corrupt and bellicose foreign policy. Shortly after Biden’s inauguration, she sounded an alarm about a domestic surveillance bill. She said it would classify half the country as “domestic terrorists.”

In March 2022, a month after Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine began, she flatly accused the United States government of running biological weapons development laboratories in Ukraine – with American funding, and American direction, with American staffs. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) actually called her a traitor for saying that. Whereupon she dropped a fifteen-post thread, setting forth evidence of the existence of those laboratories, and demanding an apology. She never got it.

Leaving the Party

Finally, in October 2022, she left the Democratic Party for good. But she did not switch Parties, but merely became independent. She did, however, become a contributor at Fox News. (Whether she will remain one is an open question, now that Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as ranking officer. His son Lachlan is more leftist and globalist than he.)