Gabbard the Iran Hawk?
Her endorsement of the Soleimani assassination and her newfound support for Trump’s bankrupt Iran policy are major red flags.
Tulsi Gabbard reinvented herself as an Iran hawk this week:
In 2020, after Trump authorized a strike in Iraq that killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Council commander Qasem Soleimani, Gabbard called the strike an “act of war.” After the Trump administration briefed Congress on the intelligence that led to the strike, Gabbard still told CNN the action had “no justification whatsoever.”
At the hearing, Gabbard implied that she has since changed her position on the strike. Gabbard said she “didn’t have access to all of the information" at the time and added that Trump's "policies towards Iran turned out to be very effective for our own national security.”
The decision to assassinate Soleimani was one of Trump’s most reckless decisions as president, and Gabbard was right to criticize it at the time. She was right when she said that it was an unconstitutional act of war. There was no additional information needed then for her to make the right call on Trump’s dangerous act, and nothing that has been revealed in the last five years makes the decision look any better. Her changed view of the Soleimani assassination and her newfound support for Trump’s bankrupt Iran policy are major red flags.