{"id":83843,"date":"2026-06-22T06:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83843"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:49:52","slug":"tulsi-gabbards-entire-career-was-guided-by-an-eccentric-religious-leader-she-once-called-her-guru-wild-washington-post-story-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/tulsi-gabbards-entire-career-was-guided-by-an-eccentric-religious-leader-she-once-called-her-guru-wild-washington-post-story-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard\u2019s Entire Career Was Guided By an \u2018Eccentric Religious Leader\u2019 She Once Called Her \u2018Guru\u2019 \u2014 Wild Washington Post Story Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Mediaite<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/06\/gabbard.jpeg\" width=\"343\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A New\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0expos\u00e9\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/2026\/06\/21\/tulsi-gabbard-her-guru-mysterious-messages-that-helped-shape-her-political-career\/\">raises questions<\/a>\u00a0about former National Intelligence chief\u00a0<strong>Tulsi Gabbard<\/strong>\u00a0and her Hare Krishna guru\u2019s desire to shape world politics.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative journalist\u00a0<strong>Jon Swaine<\/strong>\u00a0published his findings Sunday in a lengthy feature for the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0about Gabbard\u2019s relationship with\u00a0<strong>Chris Butler<\/strong>, \u201cthe eccentric religious leader Gabbard once described as her guru.\u201d\u00a0Swaine wrote that \u201cGabbard grew up in Butler\u2019s breakaway Hare Krishna group\u201d and that \u201cHer parents held senior positions in the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mediaite: A New\u00a0Washington Post\u00a0expos\u00e9\u00a0raises questions\u00a0about former National Intelligence chief\u00a0Tulsi Gabbard\u00a0and her Hare Krishna guru\u2019s desire to shape world politics..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83844,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83843\/revisions\/83844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}