Nikki Haley calls Tulsi Gabbard a 'Russian sympathizer' in scorched-earth rant against Trump's Cabinet pick

Nikki Haley blasted President-elect Donald Trump's prime for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. 

She accused the erstwhile Democratic congresswoman turned Trump protagonist of spreading Russian propaganda and called her a 'Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer.'

The erstwhile South Carolina GOP politician gave her scathing reappraisal of the 78-year-old president-elect's nominations for his Cabinet connected her SiriusXM vigor amusement 'Nikki Haley Live.' 

'Everybody present loves that she is saying she's present a Republican, but I person ever said "let's look astatine what they've said, what their actions are,"' Haley said of Gabbard.

Haley slammed the arguable nominee for going to Syria successful 2017 to conscionable with dictator Bashar al-Assad for what Haley called a 'photo op' portion helium carried retired atrocities against his ain people. 

Haley called it disgusting that Gabbard would question if it was the Syrian person who was down the chemic attacks successful his country. She recalled giving a code astatine the United Nations during Trump's archetypal word astir the attacks connected children. 

'For her to accidental that Assad with not down that, virtually everything she said astir that were Russian talking points, each spot of that,' Haley said. 'That was Russia propaganda.'

She besides blasted Gabbard for blaming NATO aft Russia invaded Ukraine much than 2 years ago.

'The Russians and the Chinese echoed her talking points and her interviews connected Russian and Chinese television,' Haley said. 

Haley pointed retired Gabbard opposed the extremity of the Iran Nuclear Deal and sanctions against Iran.

She accused her of wanting to bounds Trump's powers to instrumentality enactment against the Middle East state portion successful Congress and pushing for defence fund cuts.

The Director of National Intelligence is the president's apical quality advisor and has authorization implicit the U.S. spy fund and accidental successful which U.S. secrets are declassified.

'This is simply a occupation for an honorable broker without immoderate pronounced argumentation biases,' Haley declared. 

'She's defended Russia. She's defended Syria. She's defended Iran, and she's defended China,' Haley said.

'Now she has not denounced immoderate of these views. None of them. She hasn't taken 1 of them back,' the erstwhile UN ambassador continued successful her blistering takedown of Gabbard. 

Haley said DNI is not a spot for a 'Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathizer.' 

'Are we comfy with idiosyncratic similar that astatine the apical of our nationalist information agencies?' 

Haley's pushback connected Gabbard puts her connected the aforesaid leafage for erstwhile arsenic progressives similar Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who besides warned nominating the erstwhile Hawaii Congresswoman for the relation is dangerous.

But Gabbard was not the lone Trump nominee Haley had 'major issues' with. 

The one-time GOP statesmanlike campaigner besides took purpose astatine Trump naming Robert Kennedy Jr. his prime to pb the Department of Health and Human Services, but she did not adjacent absorption connected his arguable anti-vaccine stance.

Haley blasted RJK Jr. arsenic a 'liberal Democrat' and claimed helium would oversee 25 percent of the national fund portion noting a communal disapproval that helium has nary inheritance successful healthcare. 

Haley pointed retired successful the past RFK Jr. endorsed statesmanlike candidates including Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. 

 'He said conscionable this past twelvemonth that helium and Trump's positions "could not beryllium further apart,"' Haley said.

She besides called him 'strongly pro-choice' and claimed helium wants much oversight connected pharma. 

'I recognize helium wants to rise consciousness connected chemicals successful foods and vaccinations, but past fto him beryllium a wellness adviser,' she argued.

'Why are we putting idiosyncratic that is truthful ideologically opposed to Donald Trump's views and Republicans' views, wherefore bash we privation to bash that?' she asked.

Haley warned 'we don't cognize erstwhile helium is fixed reins to an bureau what decisions he's going to marque down the scenes, and the Senate needs to inquire the hard questions to him.'

The erstwhile politician besides noted determination volition beryllium a batch of issues with getting Trump's prime for Attorney General Matt Gaetz confirmed.

It comes aft the erstwhile Florida congressman faced a House Ethics Committee probe into alleged intersexual misconduct with a insignificant and illicit cause use. A combat is brewing implicit whether it volition merchandise its findings.

'The AG is the main instrumentality enforcement officer,' she said.  'He has the close to support himself, but it's hard to commencement a confirmation erstwhile you person allegations of illicit cause usage and enactment parties with minors.'

She said the aforesaid goes for Trump's defence caput nominee Pete Hegseth who is  accused of intersexual assault. 

'He's going to person to reply to that,' she said.