She served as an officer in the military before becoming a Representative to the Congress of the United States. So, though she is a Democrat she is also more of a war hawk in temperament. So, Trump is gathering all the "War Hawks into his cabinet now". However, I have heard her speak often and she is really something philosophically. She I think is also the only Hindu Representative in Congress and also I think is still a reserve officer in the military.
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Why one of the Hill’s top Bernie Sanders Democrats is meeting with Donald Trump
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to meet with former GOP House speaker Newt Gingrich, former Texas governor (and presidential primary rival) Rick Perry, former Republican senator Scott Brown — and one of the most liberal members of the Democratic caucus, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) announced that
she's stepping down from her post as vice chair of the Democratic
National Committee, which requires her to be neutral in the primary, and
is endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
(Tulsi Gabbard/YouTube)
On foreign policy, Gabbard often sounds more like a hawkish Republican than a potential future Democratic leader. She has blasted President Obama for failing to talk about Islamic extremism and has criticized his approach to Syria:
Like Trump, Gabbard also has a non-interventionist streak: She opposes regime change and an escalation of U.S. involvement in the Syrian civil war.
From a conservative viewpoint, it's also probably just plain fun to see a liberal Democrat (and rising star of her party) so publicly disagree with her party's leaders. Conservative-leaning publications have been happy to give her the limelight to do just that. As I wrote last October:
Her criticism of Obama's failure to cite “Islamic extremism” earned her appearances on Fox News, and in April 2015, National Review wrote a glowing profile about the “beautiful, tough young” Democrat “who's challenging Obama's foreign policy” (though the magazine's adjective-heavy headline didn't earn them any favors with feminists).Gabbard, one of two female combat veterans to join Congress in 2013, also got national attention last fall for duking it out with Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), then the Democratic National Committee chair, on Democrats' debate schedule, an implicit criticism that the party wasn't doing enough to help candidates not named Hillary Clinton compete. (It was a refrain Trump himself echoed in the final days of the primaries.)
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None of this is enough to convince us Gabbard is a serious candidate for U.N. ambassador in a Trump administration. A number of people have been named for a number of Trump administration jobs, without any apparent reason other than to boost that person's reputation.
By hosting a high-profile congressional Democrat, Trump can try to claim some much-needed bipartisan legitimacy. So far, the Sanders/Elizabeth Warren wing of the party has spent most of its time bashing the Trump administration taking shape.
There's currently a split in the Democratic Party about whether to work with Trump on legislation like infrastructure and paid family leave, or deny him any victories that would legitimize him as president.
Gabbard appears to be in the former camp. If the majority of Hill Democrats do decide to work with President Trump, she could become an increasingly important player in cutting deals.
So: Yes, this meeting between Trump and Gabbard is weird. But also, not weird at all. We doubt it will result in a Trump administration job for Gabbard — but it's easy to see why it might be happening in the first place.
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