Tulsi Gabbard And Tucker Carlson Featured In Stunning Exchange On Russian TV

Fox News host Tucker Carlsons and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard s defenses of Russian President Vladimir Putin have evidently landed them comfortably in the Kremlins good graces.

During a broadcast on Russian state television this week, Gabbard was apparently referenced in very friendly terms by one of Putins most prominent propagandists , Vladimir Soloviev.

He introduced Gabbard, a Democratic primary candidate for the 2020 presidential race, as our girlfriend Tulsi, according to a translation by Russian media analyst Julia Davis, a columnist for the Daily Beast.

A clip was then aired of Gabbards appearance on Mondays episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight in which she suggested President Joe Biden was secretly plotting to remove Putin from power.

After the clip aired, a panelist reportedly asked, Is she some sort of Russian agent?

According to Davis translation, Soloviev said she was.

Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Another translated clip of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard, introduced by state TV host Vladimir Soloviev as \"Our girlfriend Tulsi.\"

After the clip plays, one panelist asks: \"Is she some sort of a Russian agent?\" The host quickly replies: \"Yes.\" pic.twitter.com/VVNGmtjavU

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Meanwhile on Russian state TV: Another translated clip of Tucker Carlson and Tulsi Gabbard, introduced by state TV host Vladimir Soloviev as "Our girlfriend Tulsi."

After the clip plays, one panelist asks: "Is she some sort of a Russian agent?" The host quickly replies: "Yes." pic.twitter.com/VVNGmtjavU
Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 31, 2022

During Mondays interview , Gabbard argued that Biden was pushing for regime change in Russia through economic warfare.

They are doing so by waging this modern-day siege against Russia, isolating, containing, destroying their economy, starving the Russian people in the hope that the Russian people or the military will rise up and revolt and overthrow their government and get rid of Putin, she said during part of the excerpt that aired in Russia.

On Sunday, Biden said that Putin cannot remain in power in off-script remarks during a speech in Poland. White House officials quickly clarified that Biden was not advocating for regime change in Russia but that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.

But according to Gabbard, it was not a gaffe at all and Biden is lying about his true motives.

The Putin-friendly rhetoric is nothing new for the former congresswoman from Hawaii. Last month, as Putin was beginning his invasion of Russia, Gabbard blamed the U.S., NATO and Ukraine , claiming that the war could easily have been avoided if NATO had simply acknowledged Russias legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraines becoming a member of NATO.

She has also lent credence to a Russian-backed conspiracy theory about U.S. biological labs in Ukraine that American officials have warned could serve as justification for Russia to use biological and chemical weapons against Ukraine.

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In 2019, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested in an interview that Gabbard, then a long shot in the Democratic presidential field, was being groomed by Russia as an asset who would run as a third-party candidate and help usher in a Republican president. Gabbard filed and then later dropped a defamation lawsuit against Clinton over the asset comment.

Carlson, meanwhile, has been a favorite of Russian propagandists for weeks. The Fox News host has repeatedly been featured on Russian state-sponsored television for his defenses of Russia and criticisms of the U.S., NATO and Ukraine, and was even reportedly endorsed by the Kremlin in a leaked memo to state media.

Earlier this week, he promoted a bizarre theory to keep Putin in power, suggesting that Islamic extremists would somehow get hold of the countrys nuclear weapons and use them on Americans if he was removed.