Tulsi Gabbard drops Ukraine bombshell after disastrous Trump and Zelensky White House meeting

In the latest stunning Trump medication determination distant from Ukraine, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tore into a bid of interior wartime policies successful Kyiv and said they departed from U.S. values.

Her remarks tore into the authorities of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky astatine a clip helium is profoundly vulnerable, with House Speaker Mike Johnson questioning Sunday whether helium tin stay successful bureau if helium can't rapidly repair the breach with President Trump aft their explosive Oval Office meeting.

In an quality connected Fox News Sunday, Gabbard raised an contented that Trump has besides elevated: the propulsion for Zelensky to basal for elections. He declared martial instrumentality instantly aft Russian forces invaded his state successful 2022. 

'You person the cancelling of elections successful Ukraine. You person governmental parties being silenced oregon adjacent criminalized oregon thrown successful prison' she said – tearing into the regime.

'You person the state of religion – churches being unopen down. You person governmental absorption being silenced  You person full authorities power of the media. We could spell down a full laundry database of issues that are against the values of ideology and freedom,' she continued. 

'So it truly begs the question, arsenic vice president Vance said again successful Munich, it's wide that they're lasting against Putin. Obviously, that's clear. 

'But what are they really truly warring for, and are they aligned with the values that they assertion to clasp successful statement with us? The values that President Trump and Vice President President Vance are lasting for, and those are the values of freedom, of bid and existent security.'

She said Zelensky 'claimed to beryllium lasting and warring for the origin of state and democracy' erstwhile the world was 'the nonstop opposite.'

The 'values' onslaught comes aft Zelensky was hailed arsenic a leader during his 2022 code to a associated gathering of Congress. 

Gabbard's remarks referred successful portion to Ukraine's 2024 instrumentality banning organizations with ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, which has backed Russia's invasion. Nevertheless, it has raised spiritual state concerns. 

Her blasts followed Trump calling Zelensky a 'dictator' for not lasting for predetermination amid the war, a remark Trump didn't repetition successful the run-up to his aggravated White House gathering wherever helium blasted Zelensky for not accepting a ceasefire without information guarantees for his country.  

Gabbard was confirmed to her station this month, contempt Democrats and a fewer GOP critics saying she had a past of parroting Kremlin talking points.

In her latest comments, she raised galore of the criticisms Moscow has hurled astatine Ukraine to warrant its ongoing invasion. 

Asked astir whether the mode she described Ukraine and the concern amounted to 'choosing betwixt the lesser of 2 evils,' Gabbard brought up the hazard of 'World War III.' Trump has besides stressed that threat, on with focusing connected battlefield deaths, arsenic a mode to propulsion for a speedy ceasefire that Ukraine fears volition fastener successful spot Russian gains.

'What I'm focused connected is what President Trump is focused on, which is peace, seeing the satellite done a precise wide picture, and making definite that the President is having honorable and bully religion negotiations with some of these countries to bring astir an extremity to this war.

'That is what it's about, that lives are astatine stake. The imaginable of World War III, if this warfare continues to spell connected and escalate, is what's astatine stake,' she said. 

Host Shannon Bream told the DNI that surely those are not things you would accidental that Russia oregon Putin celebrates oregon bestows connected his ain people. Putin has been successful powerfulness for a 4th of a century, and dissidents and journalists are routinely locked up. Opposition person Alexei Navalny died successful an arctic situation past year. 

'That's correct. I would not marque that assertion and it's wide that that's not the case,' Gabbard, 43, a erstwhile Hawaii Democrat who joined the GOP and backed Trump, responded.

Gabbard was confirmed 52-48 this month, with Ukraine hawk and erstwhile Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell saying 'the federation should not person to interest that the quality assessments the President receives are tainted by a Director of National Intelligence with a past of alarming lapses successful judgment.'

She drew pushback online aft the White House blowup erstwhile she posted thanking Trump for his 'unwavering enactment successful lasting up for the interests of the American people, and peace. What you said is perfectly true: Zelensky has been trying to resistance the United States into a atomic warfare with Russia/WW3 for years now, and nary 1 has called him connected it.'

She repeated the World War III complaint connected Fox, referencing a struggle wherever the U.S. and NATO allies are already supplying arms, portion Putin has utilized an estimated thousands of North Korean forces to effort to propulsion backmost a Ukrainian beforehand successful its territory.

Also connected Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the U.S. was not 'abandoning' Ukraine, aft Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Zelensky whitethorn request to resign aft his blowup with President Trump.

'Well, thing has to change. Either helium needs to travel to his senses and travel backmost to the array successful gratitude, oregon idiosyncratic other needs to pb the state to bash that. I mean, it's up to the Ukrainians to fig that out, but I tin archer you that we are – we are reexerting bid done strength,' helium said.

Vice President J.D. Vance berated Zelensky successful the Oval Office, asking 'Have you ever said ‘thank you’ once?' and accused him of campaigning for the 'opposition' erstwhile helium visited a Pennsylvania ammunition mill connected his October 2024 travel to the U.S.

Unlike Vance, who voted against a $60 cardinal Ukraine assistance bundle erstwhile helium was successful the Senate, Johnson ended up getting down the woody astatine a clip erstwhile helium was politically vulnerable. 

But connected Sunday, helium turned up the vigor connected Zelensky connected NBC's 'Meet the Press.'

'President Trump has brought backmost spot to the White House. We knew that this infinitesimal would come. We worked hard for it to come, and present it's here. But we request these parties to, to spell on with this, and we request President Zelenskyy to bash what is necessary. This warfare has cause connected acold excessively long. He's mislaid hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children. We've got to bring an extremity to it. And I deliberation our European allies are hoping that that is the case, and we are arsenic well,' helium said.

 Host Kristen Welker asked him if helium would similar to spot Vladimir Putin measurement down.

'I'd similar to spot Putin defeated, frankly,' helium responded. 'He is an adversary of the United States. But successful this conflict, we've got to bring it into this war. It's successful everybody's interest.'

He rejected the thought that the U.S. was realigning toward Russia, and responded to his ain past comments raising alarms that Russia mightiness march done Europe if Ukraine was near undefended.

'Mr. Speaker, bash you inactive judge that Ukraine is an state who the United States should enactment implicit Vladimir Putin and an axis of evil?,' helium was asked. 

'Yes. It's beauteous absurd for anyone successful the media oregon Democrats to someway proclaim that President Trump, the White House, oregon Republicans successful Congress are connected Putin's side. It's a joke. We recognize that helium is simply a unsafe adversary and helium is the 1 that provoked the war,' helium said.

White House National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who was contiguous for the White House gathering that went disconnected the rails, besides raised doubts astir Zelensky without wholly calling for him to go.

He told CNN's 'State of the Union' determination was a request for 'a person that tin woody with us, yet woody with the Russians and extremity this war, and if it becomes evident that President Zelensky’s either idiosyncratic motivations oregon governmental motivations are divergent from ending the warring successful his country, past I deliberation we person a existent contented connected our hands.'

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted the unit connected Zelensky erstwhile asked astir Johnson's latest pugnacious talk.

'I deliberation that is simply a horrific suggestion. Zelenskyy is starring a country, trying to support ideology against an authoritarian dictator, Putin, who invaded his country. And I deliberation millions of Americans are embarrassed, are ashamed, that you person a President of the United States who says that Ukraine started the war, that Zelenskyy is simply a dictator – he's got it precisely backwards,' Sanders said. 

'The radical of Ukraine person mislaid tens of thousands f soldiers. Their cities are being bombed arsenic we speak, and our occupation is to support the 250 twelvemonth contented that we person of being the Democratic person of the world, not crook our backs connected a struggling state that is trying to bash the close thing.'