{"id":1159,"date":"2023-02-10T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2023-02-10T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T17:03:02","slug":"video-tulsi-gabbard-touts-military-service-while-eviscerating-romney-over-treasonous-smear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Tulsi Gabbard Touts Military Service While Eviscerating Romney Over \u2018Treasonous\u2019 Smear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard fired back against Sen. Mitt Romney during Thursday\u2019s hearing investigating the weaponization of the federal government against political dissent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUS Senator Mitt Romney accused me of treason, a crime that is punishable by death under our laws,\u201d Gabbard said. \u201cI challenged him to back this serious allegation up with evidence. What was this based on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere was no response, no explanation, no evidence, and certainly no apology,\u201d Gabbard stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gabbard, who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army, noted that \u201cfor somebody who wears the uniform, this is serious, and it\u2019s serious not only to me, but to my fellow servicemembers, everyone of us making a decision at some point in our lives to raise our hand, prepared and volunteering to lay our life down for this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi Gabbard calls out Mitt Romney for accusing her of treason. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IKHelwm0ki\">pic.twitter.com\/IKHelwm0ki<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1623757041293488128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 2022, Romney tweeted, \u201cTulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.<\/p>&mdash; Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MittRomney\/status\/1503113473819041796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, Gabbard announced that she was sending a cease and desist letter to Romney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen powerful, influential people make baseless accusations of treason, a crime punishable by death, in order to intimidate, silence and censor those who speak the truth, it has a chilling effect on our democracy,\u201d Gabbard wrote at the time.\u202f \u201cThis cannot go unchecked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When powerful, influential people make baseless accusations of treason, a crime punishable by death, in order to intimidate, silence and censor those who speak the truth, it has a chilling effect on our democracy.\u202f This cannot go unchecked. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evoefpc0Yd\">https:\/\/t.co\/evoefpc0Yd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard \ud83c\udf3a (@TulsiGabbard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/1516857719478620160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Romney has unequivocally ruled out supporting 45th President Donald Trump\u2019s third bid for the White House, even if the former president secures the Republican Party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The establishment U.S. Senator from Utah, who once sought Trump\u2019s support in his failed bid failed to oust 44th President Barack Obama from the White House in 2012, made the remarks during a climate change event in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Romney<a href=\"https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/2022\/12\/absolutely-not-romney-rules-out-supporting-trump-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;said,<\/a>&nbsp;according to The Washington Examiner. He then touted his impeachment record, telling attendees, \u201cLook, I voted to remove him from office twice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claiming that \u201che loses,\u201d Romney added that Trump is \u201cnot a person who ought to have the reigns of the government of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/2023\/02\/video-tulsi-gabbard-touts-military-service-while-eviscerating-romney-over-treasonous-smear\/\">https:\/\/valiantnews.com\/2023\/02\/video-tulsi-gabbard-touts-military-service-while-eviscerating-romney-over-treasonous-smear\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard fired back against Sen. Mitt Romney during Thursday\u2019s hearing investigating the weaponization of the federal government against political dissent. \u201cUS Senator Mitt Romney accused me of treason, a crime that is punishable by death under our laws,\u201d Gabbard said. \u201cI challenged him to back this serious allegation up with evidence. What was this based on?\u201d \u201cThere was no response, no explanation, no evidence, and certainly no apology,\u201d Gabbard stated. Gabbard, who reached the rank of Lieutenant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}