Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On April, 2, 2019, Tulsi Gabbard spoke at a Sanders Institute panel on human rights, immigration, racism, and climate change—issues long championed by Senator Bernie Sanders, who helped found the Institute to promote dialogue on social justice and progressive reform. Gabbard was a founding fellow at the Institute and at the time, she was aligned with many of these causes, advocating against government corruption and lies and in favor of civil liberties and environmental responsibility.

By 2025, however, Gabbard serves as Director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, which has increasingly sought to restrict public discussion of systemic racism, climate policy, and immigration reform—subjects she once supported. And Gabbard has emerged as a leading figure in the administration’s campaign against former President Barack Obama and the U.S. intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Gabbard has accused the Obama administration of manipulating intelligence and even submitted a criminal referral to the DOJ, calling for prosecution of senior Obama-era officials.

These assertions have been refuted by intelligence experts, Democratic lawmakers, and independent fact-checkers. Many observers view Gabbard’s campaign as politically motivated revisionism.

As these edited clips show, Gabbard is clearly adept at revising. She has reinvented virtually her entire persona since this appearance with actor/activist Susan Sarandon, feminist economist Radhika Balakrishnan, and Ben Jealous, Executive Director of the Sierra Club. The panel was moderated by Jim Zogby, founder of the Arab American Institute

To watch in full, and find Gabbard’s discussion about foreign policy with Jane Sanders visit: https://sandersinstitu... (At least until it disappears.)