Tulsi Gabbard

“Russia's got, what, over 6,000 nuclear warheads. The United States has over 5,000 nuclear warheads, both countries making up 90% of the total number of nuclear…”

Gabbard states Russia has over 6,000 and the U.S. has over 5,000 nuclear warheads, together comprising 90% of the world's total.

“There has been a correlation in states that have legalized either medical use or adult use of cannabis, a direct correlation in a reduction of opioid addiction…”

Gabbard claims that legalizing medical or adult-use cannabis in a state directly correlates with reduced opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths.

“And that's what I often remind people is that right now, today, we spend $4 billion every month in Afghanistan. $4 billion. Every month. Every single month.”

Gabbard asserts the U.S. currently spends $4 billion every month on the war in Afghanistan.

“with a company like Amazon, not only paying no taxes, I think this is for the third year in a row, and also getting, I think this last year was over $125 milli…”

Gabbard claims Amazon paid no federal taxes for a third consecutive year and received a $125 million tax credit the prior year.

“there's a John Hopkins study. There's several studies that they're doing right now that they're trying to show that there's a direct correlation between use of…”

Gabbard claims Johns Hopkins and other clinical studies show psilocybin is curing addictions to cigarettes, heroin, and other substances.

“But then you have this special category of superdelegates, which there are over 700 of them. It includes all 435 members of, or sorry, all Democratic members o…”

Gabbard describes the Democratic superdelegate system as including over 700 people, comprising all 435 members of Congress plus party-appointed leaders.

“There has proven to be a direct correlation to a drastic reduction in opioid related deaths in those states where people have access, again, either to medical …”

Gabbard claims states with legal medical or recreational marijuana access have seen a proven direct correlation to a drastic reduction in opioid-related deaths.

“look at a guy like, I think Pete Buttigieg, he spent nine million dollars on social media ads in order to get like a four percent bump in the polls”

Gabbard claims Pete Buttigieg spent nine million dollars on social media ads to gain roughly a four-percentage-point bump in the polls.

“The first debate had something like 22 million viewers. The one that we just did, I think, had 6.6 million viewers.”

Gabbard claims the first Democratic primary debate drew about 22 million viewers, while a later debate drew only 6.6 million.

“We have, you know, almost 80 million people who are uninsured and underinsured in this country who can't get the medicine they need and who are literally drivi…”

Gabbard claims nearly 80 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and unable to get needed medicine.

“The homeless crisis in Hawaii is the worst per capita of any state in the country.”

Gabbard claims Hawaii has the worst per-capita homeless crisis of any U.S. state.

“because only 20% of white males voted for Joe Biden, and, well, that means, you know, the rest obviously voted for Trump, and the military is still a predomina…”

Gabbard recounts a claim she attributes to Rep. Steve Cohen (made on CNN) that only 20% of white males nationally voted for Biden, implying the National Guard likely voted heavily for Trump; she notes she has not personally verified it.

“it's safe to assume that 75% of the guard has likely voted for Trump and therefore could not be trusted to uphold their oath to support and defend the Constitu…”

Gabbard says a member of Congress (Steve Cohen) argued 75% of National Guard troops guarding the Capitol had likely voted for Trump and thus could not be trusted.

“When you're talking about $1.7 trillion for 2022, that's so much money. It comes down to who we are choosing to elect, really.”

Gabbard states the 2022 U.S. defense/military budget was $1.7 trillion.

“He's asking Congress for $24 billion for the war in Ukraine and $0 for Maui.”

Gabbard claims Biden's supplemental funding request to Congress after the Maui fires included $24 billion for Ukraine and zero dollars for Maui.

“And I think they came up with like 92 recommendations on things that needed to be fixed. They shared that with municipalities all across the country as like, H…”

The Maui Police Department conducted an after-action audit of the wildfire response producing about 92 recommendations.

“But the script was totally flipped and they shut up real quick and turn their sights against Julian Assange after he released Hillary Clinton's emails.”

Mainstream news outlets turned against Julian Assange after WikiLeaks released Hillary Clinton's emails.

“and turn people's attention away from the 1,200 people that were murdered and killed and the people that were raped on that attack on October 7th.”

Roughly 1,200 people were murdered in the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel.

“because we know how many people are coming through the numbers that are being reported. I think it's close to 9 million now, just over the course of the Biden …”

Close to 9 million people have come across the border over the course of the Biden administration.

“And this was the same guy, Herman Andaya is his name. He didn't show up and show his face publicly until like seven days after the fire. And then he went and h…”

Maui emergency management chief Herman Andaya held a single press conference about a week after the fire and then resigned.

“Section 702 of FISA gives our government the authority to surveil foreign actors, essentially, to try to identify terrorist threats. But part of that is they h…”

Section 702 of FISA lets the government surveil foreign actors and capture the communications of Americans who talk with those foreign targets.

“Somebody was saying that I think it's 25% of France is already living under Sharia law.”

About 25 percent of France is already living under Sharia law.

“we have provided a one-time payment of $700 to everyone who has been impacted by this fire or displaced by this fire. And that was her big announcement that sh…”

FEMA provided a one-time payment of 700 dollars to people impacted or displaced by the Maui wildfires.

“She said the people that are coming in to this country, most of them it's because of climate change.”

AOC said that most people coming into the country are doing so because of climate change.

“That court, and this is public information, that court approves 99.999999% of all requests that the government makes to go in and surveil American citizens. It…”

The FISA court approves about 99.999999 percent of government requests to surveil, making it essentially a rubber stamp.

“It's what I focused on in my book, For Love of Country. The truth about what is happening in our country, the experiences that I had in the Democratic Party th…”

Tulsi Gabbard wrote a book titled For Love of Country about leaving the Democratic Party.