Tulsi Gabbard, the previous Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, advised Fox Information Digital Monday that she would “be honored to serve” in a possible Trump administration.
If tapped, Gabbard expressed her need to work able the place she will be able to make the best affect, notably in areas associated to overseas coverage or nationwide safety. Gabbard is an active-duty navy veteran who accomplished two excursions within the Center East, and at present serves as a lieutenant colonel within the U.S. Military Reserves.
“I really feel I can take advantage of affect in these areas of nationwide safety and overseas coverage, and work to convey concerning the modifications that President Trump talks about,” Gabbard mentioned Monday night from a marketing campaign fundraising occasion in Atlanta, Georgia. Gabbard added that bringing an finish “to the affect of the navy industrial advanced,” working to forestall World Conflict III and bringing the U.S. again “from the brink of nuclear conflict” could be amongst her priorities. Conflict ought to be a “final resort,” Gabbard mentioned. She has additionally supported former President Trump’s plans to finish the conflict in Ukraine.
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Gabbard frolicked because the vice chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee between 2013 and 2016, and beforehand supported candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, and President Biden. Nonetheless, blaming a shift inside her former occasion that she has not agreed with, Gabbard grew to become more and more pleasant with the GOP earlier than leaving the occasion and finally becoming a member of Trump’s transition staff final month.
“There are lots of people who I meet in numerous totally different locations each day who’re former Democrats, or people who find themselves leaving the Democratic Celebration,” Gabbard mentioned Monday. “Individuals who acknowledge the identical issues that I’ve and skilled the identical issues that I’ve and understand that the Democratic Celebration of at present does not stand for them, does not stand for freedom, it does not stand for civil liberties… does not stand for peace.”
The previous Democratic congresswoman has been outspoken in opposition to what a Harris administration may do to peace around the globe and, on Monday, she slammed Democrats – together with Vice President Kamala Harris – for what she described as their refusal to have interaction in diplomacy with U.S. adversaries.
“President Trump did in his final administration what President Obama refused to do, what President Biden refused to do, what Kamala Harris has made clear she refuses to do – which is to exit and do this robust work {that a} president and commander in chief has to do in diplomacy,” Gabbard mentioned. “Not simply hanging out with your folks, and your allies, and your companions, however really going out and speaking to your adversaries.”
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Gabbard argued that peace will stay elusive till the leaders within the White Home are keen to do that form of diplomacy. She additionally slammed Harris for escalating the conflict in Ukraine and being “flippant” concerning the possibilities of a nuclear catastrophe.
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“The longer this conflict goes on and the extra that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and the neocons of Washington proceed to escalate this conflict, the better threat we’re of a possible nuclear conflict, World Conflict III,” Gabbard mentioned on Monday. “It’s unconscionable and unacceptable that Kamala Harris and others who’re persevering with to escalate [the war in Ukraine] are so flippant concerning the actuality of nuclear conflict.”