Compromised - The Hidden Chain of Command -- Mary Trump

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https://www.marytrump.org/p/compromised

A good piece by Mary. In her full post, she lists a lot of denials by the Gabbard crew and the cult members. It is interesting that none counter the accusations as falsehoods, just attacks on their cultism.

A major investigation by The Washington Post raises deeply troubling questions about who exactly may have been influencing former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, not only throughout her political career but potentially throughout much of her life.

According to Washington Post investigative reporter Jon Swaine, journalists reviewed more than 25,000 pages of emails, internal memoranda, and other documents connected to individuals in Gabbard's political orbit, as well as people affiliated with the Science of Identity Foundation, or SIF, a religious organization led by Chris Butler, whom Gabbard has publicly described as her guru.

According to the reporting, the documents reveal a recurring pattern in which internal guidance circulated among Butler's associates often appeared shortly before Gabbard publicly adopted remarkably similar messaging, policy positions, or legislative priorities.

This is what MSNBC reported:

Washington Post investigative reporter Jon Swaine obtained hundreds of confidential memos detailing guidance allegedly sent to Gabbard from 2011 to 2017, including when she was in Congress. Evidence Swaine says points to the memos coming from a man named Chris Butler, head of a breakaway sect of the Hare Krishna group, someone Gabbard has called her guru. The Washington Post compared Gabbard's remarks in 32 TV interviews between 2014 and 2016 with talking points allegedly sent to her and found that on 24 occasions, Gabbard used language sent to her in those memos almost verbatim. Other times Gabbard used different words but promoted basically the exact same ideas.

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I personally do not care what religion this organization professes to follow. That is not the issue. The Director of National Intelligence occupies one of the most powerful positions in the United States government, and it matters who influences that person. Whether that influence comes from Vladimir Putin, because Russian state media has previously referred to Gabbard as "Putin's girlfriend," or from a longtime spiritual adviser, Americans have every right to know who may be shaping the judgment of somebody entrusted with protecting our national security. The issue is not religion. The issue is influence.

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Whether someone chooses to call it a religion or a cult is ultimately beside the point. The far more important question is whether an unelected religious leader exercised meaningful influence over the decisions of an elected member of Congress and, later, one of the most senior national security officials in the United States government. There is already far too much religious influence in American politics. If one individual operating outside government was helping shape policy decisions made on behalf of the American people, that is something every American should want to understand, regardless of political affiliation.

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