Article in Media Matters by Staff, 11/19/24
Headline: “On MSNBC’s Deadline: White House, Angelo Carusone explains the role extremists in conservative media are playing in the Trump transition”
“ICOLLE WALLACE (HOST): At a time when global tensions are high, the war in Ukraine is intensifying, Donald Trump’s decision to tap Tulsi Gabbard as his incoming Director of National Intelligence is raising alarms, as you heard there. New reporting uncovers how she has become a favorite among the state media, of one of America’s adversaries, Russia.
“That’s according to The New York Times, which reports, “In Russia, the reaction to her potential appointed has been gleeful, even if Putin’s government remains weary of American policies, even under a second Trump administration. ‘The CIA and the FBI are trembling,’ a Russian newspaper wrote on Friday in a glowing profile of Ms. Gabbard, noting positively, that Ukrainians consider ‘an agent of the Russian state.”