Rep. Tulsi Gabbard defended President Trump’s decision to remove two administration officials from their posts after they testified in the House’s impeachment process.
“I disagree with so many of Trump’s decisions, especially as it relates to foreign policy; I’ve been very outspoken in that area,” the Hawaii Democrat began during a Fox News interview over the weekend. “Ultimately, whether people like it or not, there are consequences to elections, and the president has, within his purview, to make the decisions about who he’d like serving in his Cabinet.”
Trump was acquitted by the Senate last week on two articles of impeachment passed by the House last year. He later fired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, both of whom testified about his July 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that sparked impeachment.
Gabbard, 38, was speaking to host Neil Cavuto ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary. She did not qualify for last week’s Democratic debate and is polling at 3.3% in the first-in-the-nation primary state.
Gabbard, an anti-interventionist who, at times, strikes out against more mainstream Democratic policy positions, has struggled to gain traction in the nomination process. Her critics, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and California Sen. Kamala Harris, have called Gabbard a “Russian agent” and said that she gets her talking points from Fox News.
