{"id":49857,"date":"2021-01-26T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49857"},"modified":"2021-01-26T17:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:52:26","slug":"have-you-declared-martial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49857","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Have you declared martial law?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018Have you declared martial law?\u2019: Former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard takes aim at Biden administration<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49858\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49858\" class=\"wp-image-49858 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/600efe4d85f54021d625171a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/600efe4d85f54021d625171a.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/600efe4d85f54021d625171a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO. \u00a9 REUTERS \/ Mike Segar<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>Former US congresswoman and one-time presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard pulled no punches deploring the Biden administration\u2019s treatment of National Guard troops and liberty-loving Americans in the wake of the Capitol riot.<\/p>\n<p>During a pair of appearances on Fox News, Gabbard decried\u00a0<em>\u201cthe militarization of our nation&#8217;s capital,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and lambasted the new White House administration for sending the message that Washington, DC was somehow under siege and in need of an\u00a0<em>\u201cenduring presence of thousands of National Guard troops.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1353674981570301954&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F513556-biden-martial-law-tulsi-gabbard%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1353674981570301954\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cPresident @JoeBiden, have you declared martial law? Because that is what it\u2019s starting to look and feel like. Let our troops get back home to their families,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the former congresswoman tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt made me so angry,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0she said of the images broadcast online and on the news showing\u00a0<em>\u201cfreezing\u201d<\/em>\u00a0National Guard troops\u00a0<em>\u201cshoved into the parking garage,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u201cdiscarded as though they don&#8217;t even matter.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gabbard added that both the initial deployment of 25,000 National Guard troops for inauguration day and the continued military presence called for by members of her party is\u00a0<em>\u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI haven&#8217;t seen the justification,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Gabbard said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1353403241820635136&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F513556-biden-martial-law-tulsi-gabbard%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1353403241820635136\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, during an appearance on Fox News Primetime, Gabbard told host Brian Kilmeade that the Democrat establishment&#8217;s rhetoric in the aftermath of the Capitol riot could create<em>\u00a0\u201ca very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution, and a targeting of almost half of the country.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The former Democrat senator and presidential candidate has long been a thorn in her party\u2019s side, never one to shy away from calling out the hypocrisy or lunacy of some of the more fringe elements of the Democrat platform.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard was succeeded by Kai Kahele on January 3, 2021 and has now launched her own podcast having left political life in Washington, DC behind, for now at least.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/513556-biden-martial-law-tulsi-gabbard\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/513556-biden-martial-law-tulsi-gabbard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Have you declared martial law?\u2019: Former US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard takes aim at Biden administration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}