Watch: Tulsi Gabbard accuses Kamala Harris of 'hypocrisy' more than Griner sentencing

Heather Hamilton

August 07, 10:05 AM August 07, 10:05 AM

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hello) accused Vice President Kamala Harris of exhibiting “hypocrisy” regarding the battle to convey WNBA participant Brittney Griner back again to the United States.

On Thursday, Harris criticized Russia for sentencing Griner to nine yrs in prison immediately after she pleaded responsible to smuggling medicine into Russia. Customs officers in Moscow had identified vaping cartridges that contained hashish oil in her baggage.

"With today’s sentencing, Russia proceeds its wrongful detention of Brittney Griner. She should be produced straight away," Harris tweeted. “@POTUS and I, and our complete Administration, are working every single day to reunite Brittney, as well as Paul Whelan, with loved ones who miss each and every of them dearly."

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Gabbard, also a previous presidential applicant and vice chairwoman of the Democratic Nationwide Committee, informed Fox News that although Harris was legal professional standard of California, she labored to retain persons convicted of comparable charges in jail lengthier than their sentences.

"Another take note of hypocrisy coming from Kamala Harris and this administration,” Gabbard said. “It isn't going to make any perception."

"My query for her and the Biden administration — in which is your outrage for your fellow Us citizens who are sitting down in jail right now below in the United States of The us for the reason that of small marijuana violations?" Gabbard ongoing. "How come you are not combating as challenging for them to be returned dwelling and reunited with their family members as you are for Brittney Griner?”

More than 1,900 men and women had been locked up for cannabis-relevant offenses though Harris was California’s attorney typical, in accordance to a report.

Gabbard stated that she opposes the imprisonment of marijuana offenders and summarized her see of Harris’s remarks by slamming the unethical influence that elitism is participating in in her check out.

“To me, the concept to the American people today by means of [the administration's] steps is loud and clear, is that if you are loaded and powerful or well-known, then you will get unique remedy from this administration," Gabbard proclaimed. "If you are not. We will not care about you, and we are likely to let you sit there and rot in jail."

Fox News host Will Cain questioned Gabbard if Harris’s shift in strategy to political warm matters helps make her terms “empty.”

"Unfortunately, like also numerous politicians, it appears to be that she puts her finger to the wind and decides the points she's intended to be offended about on any offered working day, and if it turns into politically inconvenient or detrimental, then she'll swap the other way," Gabbard claimed.