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At 21:59 UTC, [[Mitt Romney]] tweeted "Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives."<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2022 |title=Mitt Romney |url=https://x.com/MittRomney/status/1503113473819041796?s=20&t=TVjZjoz23gd3tqwzZoJDIA |access-date=December 9, 2024 |website=X.com}}</ref>
On March 14, 2022 at 02:24 UTC [[Adam Kinzinger|Rep. Adam Kinzinger]] remarked “actual Russian propaganda. Traitorous …" in a retweet of Gabbard's video of the prior day.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schnell |first=Mychael |date=2022-03-14 |title=Kinzinger calls out Gabbard for Russian misinformation |url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/598142-kinzinger-calls-out-gabbard-for-russian-misinformation |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=The Hill}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kinzinger |first=Adam |date=2022-03-14 |title=Tweet |url=https://x.com/adamkinzinger/status/1503180267653054466?s=61&t=B_QIQL-6wTpgB4PO6wKEiQ}}</ref>
Gabbard responded to Romney, asking him to "provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous. … Evidence of the existence of such biolabs, their vulnerability, and thus the need to take immediate action to secure them is beyond dispute",<ref name=":25">{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2022 |title=Tulsi Gabbard |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1503334079667658752 |access-date=March 20, 2022 |website=X.com}}</ref> citing [[U.S. senate|Senate]] testimony by the [[United States Department of State|State Department]]'s [[Victoria Nuland]] as indicated above, a Pentagon Fact sheet, CBS Face the Nation, a CNN fact-check, and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, which acknowledged there are U.S. funded labs in Ukraine working with pathogens.▼
At 12:01 UTC, Gabbard also said, on Carlson's show that day, "They're accusing me of saying that somehow there are bioweapons labs in Ukraine. I've said no such thing at any point. I have said that there are biolabs in Ukraine that have received U.S. support that contained dangerous pathogens."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-15 |title=Tulsi Gabbard responds to Mitt Romney accusation of 'treasonous lies' {{!}} Fox News Video |url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6300688866001 |access-date=2024-12-25
▲At 12:35 UTC, Gabbard responded to Romney, asking him to "provide evidence that what I said is untrue and treasonous. … Evidence of the existence of such biolabs, their vulnerability, and thus the need to take immediate action to secure them is beyond dispute",<ref name=":25">{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2022 |title=Tulsi Gabbard |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1503334079667658752 |access-date=March 20, 2022 |website=X.com}}</ref> citing [[U.S. senate|Senate]] testimony by the [[United States Department of State|State Department]]'s [[Victoria Nuland]] as indicated above, a Pentagon Fact sheet, CBS Face the Nation, a CNN fact-check, and the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, which acknowledged there are U.S. funded labs in Ukraine working with pathogens.
(Bioweapons being produced in Ukraine have been debunked as [[disinformation]] by multiple media outlets, scientific groups, and international bodies.{{refn|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60711705|title = Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia's biological weapons claims|work = BBC News|date = 15 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wong |first=Edward |date=2022-03-11 |title=U.S. Fights Bioweapons Disinformation Pushed by Russia and China |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/politics/russia-ukraine-china-bioweapons.html |access-date=2022-03-13 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":6" /><ref name="reutersun">{{Cite news |last1=Landay |first1=Jonathan |last2=Pamuk |first2=Humeyra |last3=Lewis |first3=Simon |date=2022-03-11 |title=U.N. says no evidence to back Russian claim of Ukraine biological weapons program |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/un-says-not-aware-any-biological-weapons-program-ukraine-2022-03-11/ |access-date=2022-03-21}}</ref>}})▼
On March 15 at 04:51 UTC, Gabbard tweeted that she was not convinced there are biological weapons (aka 'bioweapons') in Ukraine and had never said there were, but she was concerned about existence of biological labs in a warzone.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2022 |title=Tulsi Gabbard |url=https://x.com/tulsigabbard/status/1503579489531400194?s=21 |access-date=March 20, 2022 |website=X.com}}</ref><ref name=":26">{{Cite web |date=2022-03-14 |title=Tulsi Gabbard responds to Mitt Romney accusation of 'treasonous lies' {{!}} Fox News Video |url=https://www.foxnews.com/video/6300688866001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315020334/https://video.foxnews.com/v/6300688866001#sp=show-clips |archive-date=2022-03-15 |access-date=2024-12-22 |website=Fox News |language=en-US}}</ref>
▲(Bioweapons being produced in Ukraine have been debunked as [[disinformation]] by multiple media outlets, scientific groups, and international bodies.{{refn|<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/60711705|title = Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia's biological weapons claims|work = BBC News|date = 15 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wong |first=Edward |date=2022-03-11 |title=U.S. Fights Bioweapons Disinformation Pushed by Russia and China |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/us/politics/russia-ukraine-china-bioweapons.html |access-date=2022-03-13 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=":6" /><ref name="reutersun">{{Cite news |last1=Landay |first1=Jonathan |last2=Pamuk |first2=Humeyra |last3=Lewis |first3=Simon |date=2022-03-11 |title=U.N. says no evidence to back Russian claim of Ukraine biological weapons program |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/un-says-not-aware-any-biological-weapons-program-ukraine-2022-03-11/ |access-date=2022-03-21}}</ref>}})
On March 15, [[Newsweek]], one day after saying "Gabbard had asserted, accurately, that the U.S. funds bio labs in Ukraine, not bio weapons labs",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Palmer |first=Ewan |date=2022-03-14 |title=Gabbard Labeled a 'Russian Asset' for Pushing U.S. Biolabs in Ukraine Claim |url=https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-bio-labs-ukraine-russia-conspiracy-1687594 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> the same Newsweek reporter wrote in a separate article that Gabbard had "clarified her comments" and was "'deeply concerned' over claims about biological weapons in Ukraine".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=Ewan Palmer News |date=2022-03-15 |title=Tulsi Gabbard Clarifies Ukraine Bio Labs Remarks After Widespread Outrage |url=https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-biolabs-ukraine-russia-weapons-1688060 |access-date=2024-12-20 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref>
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