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Thu Jun 25, 2026, 07:50 PM Thursday

Mary Trump - Tulsi Gabbard, Compromised

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.

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

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