{"id":2332768,"date":"2024-08-28T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulsi-gabbard-blasts-champion-of-freedom-kamala-harris-for-her-administrations-record-of-censorship-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:26:52","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-blasts-champion-of-freedom-kamala-harris-for-her-administrations-record-of-censorship-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tulsi-gabbard-blasts-champion-of-freedom-kamala-harris-for-her-administrations-record-of-censorship-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard blasts \u2018champion of freedom\u2019 Kamala Harris for her administration\u2019s record of censorship &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftulsi-gabbard-blasts-champion-of-freedom-kamala-harris-for-her-administrations-record-of-censorship-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2332768&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Democratic presidential candidate \u200cTulsi Gabbard has criticized Vice\u2063 President Kamala Harris for\u200d her claims \u2064of being a &#8220;champion of \u200dfreedom,&#8221; \u2062pointing out a disconnect \u200dbetween her rhetoric and actions concerning free speech. In an interview\u200c with Fox News, Gabbard\u200d referenced Meta CEO Mark\u2063 Zuckerberg&#8217;s admission of \u2064succumbing to pressure from the Biden-Harris administration to censor content on platforms like Facebook and \u200dInstagram. Gabbard\u200d argued that this \u200dcollaboration undermines Harris&#8217;s stance \u2064on\u2062 freedom and \u2063is indicative of a broader failure to \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-free-speech-addressed-by-h-r-1\/\" title=\"Dark money, free speech addressed by H.R.1?\">uphold free speech<\/a>. She emphasized that Harris&#8217;s words \u200cdo \u200dnot align with her record and advised voters to consider\u2062 her \u200cactions over her statements.\u2062 Gabbard, who has endorsed \u2064former President Donald Trump and is assisting him with debate \u200bpreparations against Harris, highlighted \u200dher own experience effectively\u200c debating Harris in 2019 as \u2063a critical factor for Trump&#8217;s campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Tulsi Gabbard blasts &lsquo;champion of freedom&rsquo; Kamala Harris for her administration&rsquo;s record of censorship<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1739303\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic\">Democratic<\/a> presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tulsi-gabbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Tulsi Gabbard\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> called out Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kamala Harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> for using rhetoric about being a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/awbozzi\/status\/1825942503482085383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"champion of freedom\">champion of freedom<\/a> while having a history of censoring free speech through pressuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Democratic\">social media<\/a> companies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fox News Channel host Trace Gallagher asked Gabbard about her thoughts on Meta chief <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mark-zuckerberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> sharing his regrets in a letter to Congress about bowing to pressure from senior officials in the Biden-Harris administration to &ldquo;censor&rdquo; content on Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad he had the courage to come forward and speak the truth, especially right now,&rdquo; Gabbard said Tuesday night. &ldquo;This is really important because you have Kamala Harris, who is building her whole campaign around freedom. This is her new mantra that she is repeating; she repeated in her debate and in her speech at the Democratic Convention that she&rsquo;s going to be a president who &lsquo;champions freedom.&#8217;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2570532&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=c410589c82538773403ca909802b593d\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former Democratic presidential candidate added, &ldquo;But the fact is, as Mark Zuckerberg just exposed, it&rsquo;s Harris and Joe Biden who got him and Facebook to do their dirty work in censoring our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/First-Amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>right to free speech<\/a> once again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Her words do not match her actions but we have to turn down the volume on whatever it is she saying and look at her record because that tells us the whole story about why we should not allow her in the White House as our president,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Hawaii<\/a> congresswoman recently endorsed former President Donald Trump and has been added as an honorary co-chair to Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-slapped-with-subpoena-for-records-of-dealings-with-burisma-chinese-companies\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Slapped with Subpoena for Records of Dealings with Burisma, Chinese Companies\">presidential transition team<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard is now helping the Republican presidential nominee with preparing for his debate in September with Harris. The former congresswoman is regarded as having been an effective debater in a high-pressure presidential candidate debate against Harris during the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s interesting when you talk about Kamala Harris&rsquo;s record because there&rsquo;s word now that you could be helping the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>president<\/a> with debate preparations. Of course, it&rsquo;s very well-established that you pretty efficiently took down Kamala Harris in 2019, is that something that you relish the opportunity to be able to help in that aspect?&rdquo; Gallagher asked her.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to be helpful in whatever way that I possibly can and if I can be helpful to President Trump at all in this area, a really is to share the experience that I had and what I learned in sharing that stage with Kamala Harris back in 2019,&rdquo; she responded.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard shared that Harris plays &ldquo;tricks&rdquo; to &ldquo;deflect&rdquo; away from her record.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Quite frankly the kinds of tricks that she will play in order to deflect away from her record, which voters need to know about and the mainstream media &mdash; the propaganda media &mdash; is trying to cover up. She will rehearse some lines and deliver them very well. President Trump knows the issues, and he knows her record, and I look forward to seeing him challenge her and expose the truth about who she really is,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Harris campaign, in recent days and weeks, has suggested changes in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s previous stances on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/electric-vehicles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>electric vehicle<\/a> mandates, building the border wall, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-defund-the-police-killed-police-reform\/\" title=\"How \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 Killed Police Reform\">decriminalizing border crossings<\/a>, Medicare for all, and fracking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1739303\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1739303\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard criticizes Kamala Harris, who claims to be a &#8220;champion of freedom,&#8221; for her administration&#8217;s history of censorship. The former Democratic presidential candidate pointed out that Harris has pressured social media companies to limit free speech. In an interview with Fox News Channel host Trace Gallagher, Gabbard expressed her approval of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg for admitting in a letter to Congress that he felt compelled by senior officials in the Biden-Harris administration to censor content on Facebook and Instagram. <\/p>\n<p>Gabbard stated, &#8220;I&#8217;m glad he had the courage to come forward and speak the truth, especially right now.&#8221; She emphasized that while Harris promotes herself as a defender of freedom\u2014repeating this message during debates and at the Democratic Convention\u2014Zuckerberg&#8217;s revelations show that it is actually Harris and President Biden who have influenced Facebook&#8217;s censorship practices.<\/p>\n<p>She remarked, &#8220;Her words do not match her actions,&#8221; urging people to focus on her record rather than just her rhetoric. Gabbard recently endorsed Donald Trump and is assisting him as an honorary co-chair on his presidential transition team while preparing for his upcoming debate with Harris. Reflecting on their past encounters during debates, she noted how Harris employs tactics to divert attention from her record.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard concluded by expressing confidence in Trump&#8217;s ability to challenge Harris effectively: &#8220;President Trump knows the issues, and he knows her record&#8230; I look forward to seeing him challenge her and expose the truth about who she really is.&#8221; Meanwhile, recent shifts in Harris\u2019s positions on various policies have been noted by her campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2332769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Tulsi-Gabbard-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6371,33068,32438,32171,37690],"class_list":["post-2332768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-censorship","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-commentary","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Tulsi-Gabbard-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}