Tulsi Gabbard pushes Russian conspiracy theory & even Republicans say she has taken it too far

2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is publicly supporting a Russian conspiracy theory about the existence of U.S. biological laboratories in Ukraine.

The theory could be used as an excuse for Russia to use chemical or biological warfare in Ukraine.

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Gabbard posted a video to Twitter on Sunday in which she declared that the US funds 25-30 bio-labs in Ukraine that are researching “dangerous pathogens” that could spread around the world if compromised or released in the midst of bombings taking place in the country.

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She called for these labs to be shut down immediately, as well as a ceasefire to be called in their vicinity. She also accused the Biden-Harris Administration of trying to cover up their existence.

Upon Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, the World Health Organization (WHO) did advise Ukraine to destroy “high-threat pathogens” in any of its public health laboratories, which it said have been supported by WHO, the United States, and the European Union.

These labs, however, are not secret, are owned and operated by Ukraine, and have nothing whatsoever to do with biological warfare. Instead, ABC News reports that they are part of a “Biological Threat Reduction Program” with the goal of preventing outbreaks of deadly disease.

But in a release from Reuters, WHO emphasized that Russia is falsely pushing the notion that the U.S. Defense Department is supporting biological weapons laboratories in the country.

Statements like Gabbard’s are playing right into the hands of the narrative the Russian government is trying to tell, and Russia could use this theory as a reason to begin using chemical and biological warfare against Ukraine.

The falsities have spread like wildfire among U.S. conspiracy theorists.

In response to Gabbard’s video, Sen. Mitt Romeny (R-UT) tweeted that she is “parroting false Russian propaganda” and that “Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.”

While Gabbard did represent Hawaii as a Democrat and also ran for president as one, she has increasingly moved to the right.

Lately, she’s been touting deeply Republican rhetoric, blasting Biden for playing “identity politics” in his commitment to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court and calling critics of anti-LGBTQ conservative podcaster Joe Rogan “zealots of wokeism.”