Trump lashes out on Truth Social after new indictment filed against him – as it happened

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Tulsi Gabbard is a former Hawaii congresswoman who endorsed Bernie Sanders and once called Joe Biden a friend. But her days in Democratic politics are far behind her, the Guardian's David Smith reported earlier this year, when he covered Gabbard's speech to a major convention of conservatives:

Once a prominent backer of the leftwing senator Bernie Sanders, on Thursday she was greeted by far-right activists with a standing ovation and a group of supporters brandishing gold letters that spelled T-R-U-M-P.