When the Establishment Cries Treason
16th March 2022
Last week, former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard released a video calling for a ceasefire in areas around American-funded biolabs in Ukraine. She also called for the United States to reconsider its support for these facilities, which experiment with pathogens that could be accidentally released in a time of war.
For the crime of preferring that Europeans not die en masse from biological poisons, Gabbard was accused by Senator Mitt Romney of “parroting false Russian propaganda” and spreading “treasonous lies.”
Gabbard quickly responded with tweets of her own, citing plenty of evidence that, yes, Washington is funding these biolabs, and no, this isn’t just a Kremlin talking point. And really, it was all a bit much, this accusation of treason from a sitting senator. The optics, first of all, are absurd: while Gabbard was defending her country in the Army National Guard, Romney was defending investors at Bain Capital from cost overruns (acquiring KB Toys was his Vietnam).