Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) votes against confirming Tarsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), despite his history of standing up for him against the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He threw aside the Democrats.
Gabbard, was it It was confirmed successfully He did so with 52-48 votes Wednesday morning without the support of Sanders, who resigned from his position as vice-chairman at the DNC in 2016.
A Hawaiian lawmaker at the time, who had been the vice-chairman of the DNC since 2013, was in support of Sanders's February 2016, citing the need to push back “more wars of interveners in government change.” Shortened the four-year short.
“As the Vice-Chair of the DNC, I need to remain neutral in the democratic primary. But I can't stay neutral anymore. The stakes are too high,” Gabbard said. “So today, I support Senator Bernie Sanders as the next president and commander in the United States.”
“A visionary commander, who will make good judgment, understand the need for a robust foreign policy to defend the safety and security of the American people, and will not waste precious lives and money in the interventionist war. “There's a change of government,” she continued. He continued before claiming that “this counterproductive war would undermine our national security and economic prosperity.”
Gabbard concluded her statement by saying that American voters have two “clear” options in the Democratic primary.
“We can elect a president who will lead us into more interventionist wars with a change of government, or a president who will enter a new era of peace and prosperity,” she said. “With this clear choice in mind, I will be resigning as the Vice-Chairman of the DNC, so I will be able to strongly support Bernie Sanders as the Democratic candidate for the US president.”
After a few months there were thousands of internal DNC email leaks, and that It was revealed Other top DNC officials including the chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)conspiring to support former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign over Sanders.
When Gabbard and Sanders ran on the 2020 Democrat tickets, Hawaii lawmakers and longtime Vermont politicians were still friendly to each other.
“Tulsi Gabbard has stopped her life to protect this country. People can oppose the issue, but it's outrageous for everyone to suggest that Tarsi is a foreign property. “That's,” Sanders wrote on social media after Clinton in October 2019. Condemned on the basis She is a Russian asset:
Gabbard has long been called a “Russian asset” by founding Democrats. Wasserman Schultz.
After both ended their 2020 campaign, Gabbard posted another video on social media, telling Sanders that she “fighting for all Americans, health care, equality” to her I called him “friend.”
After Sanders voted to call Cloture to Gabbard's nomination on Tuesday – the day before the confirmation vote – journalist Glenn Greenwald called him an “opportunistic partisan co-sick.”
The senator continues to be heavily criticized for opposing his previous allies after the confirmation vote, with more social media users calling him “unspinned.”
