Trump already has Tusi Gabard in his cabinet who repeats Krimlim talking points and who has sympathy toward Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s arguments for waging war in Ukraine and was a defender of the Russian backed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. If Patel is confirmed as FBI director, as it appears he will be, this will be a second high ranking official in the Trump administration with questionable loyalties.
I am having a hard time understanding what has happened to the Republican Party. All of my life it was the Republican Party that was suspicious of people with questionable loyalty and was on guard against government officials with ties to our adversaries or intellectual sympathies to anti-democratic ideologies. If there were government officials or high-profile influential people with sympathies to non-democratic ideologies, it was likely to be a Democrat. Now, it is likely to be a Republican.
People who I thought I knew and whose values I thought I shared, are not concerned that we have people like Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel in the highest levels of our government. They could care less. First, they respond with "fake news" when what these people do and the ties they have are revealed. Then, they will minimize the importance of the ties or anti-democratic point of view. Next, they agree with the pro Kremlin or anti-democratic point of view. It is alarming. I never thought I would see the day when Republicans would approve of having people like Gabbard and Patel in our government.
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show
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