re: Tulsi has secret meeting with Hezbolah OMG!!

Edited to four paragrahs which I was told is the rule - full article linked below -

Gabbard, a former House member who is now President Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, was raised in the Science of Identity Foundation, a sect tied to a direct-marketing firm accused of running a pyramid scheme in several countries. Neither Gabbard, the sect nor the firm, QI Group, wanted the relationships scrutinized.

The revelations shed further light on Gabbard’s ties to the religious group—publicly described by some former followers as a cult that demands total loyalty to its founder—and to the Hong Kong-based QI, which has been a target of criminal and civil cases alleging fraud and racketeering in at least seven countries.

Gabbard and many of her former Capitol Hill staffers are followers of the sect, people with knowledge of the matter said. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, has called Chris Butler, the sect’s leader, her “guru dev,” a Hindu term that is frequently translated as divine teacher.

Gabbard’s parents are followers of Butler, a former Hare Krishna disciple who founded Science of Identity Foundation in Hawaii in the 1970s. They raised Gabbard in the group, said former followers, who described Butler’s demands of fealty. Some adherents mixed Butler’s toenail clippings into their meals, two former followers said, as a sign of devotion. Others used his shoes as prayer totems, they said.

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