Nikki Haley on Wednesday slammed former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — President-elect Donald Trump’s choose to be director of nationwide intelligence — over her 2017 “photo-op” with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“He was massacring his personal folks. She stated she was skeptical that he was behind the chemical weapons assaults,” stated Haley of Gabbard on her SiriusXM present.
“Now, this to me, is disgusting.”
Haley, who served as United Nations ambassador below Trump, pointed to a 2017 speech she gave the place she held up photos of Syrian youngsters who had been victims of a chemical weapons attack within the city of Khan Shaykhun.
Gabbard, simply months earlier than the assault, met with Assad throughout a secret journey to Syria and, in 2019, would declare that the Syrian president was “not an enemy” to america.
“For her to say that Assad was not behind that, actually, every part she stated about that had been Russian talking points, each little bit of that, that was Russian propaganda,” stated Haley earlier than including that the Democrat-turned-Republican additionally blamed NATO for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
She continued, “And the Russians and the Chinese language echoed her speaking factors and her interviews on Russian and Chinese language tv.”
Elsewhere in her SiriusXM present, Haley — a harsh Trump critic amid her 2024 bid earlier than ultimately endorsing his marketing campaign — famous that the president-elect’s choose additionally as soon as opposed his withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and opposed sanctions on the nation, as properly.
“So now she’s defended Russia, she’s defended Syria, she’s defended Iran and she or he’s defended China. Now she has not denounced any of those views, none of them. She hasn’t taken considered one of them again,” Haley stated.
She later added, “DNI … This isn’t a spot for a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese language sympathizer.”
