The transformation of Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s intelligence tsar pick
The once rising-star of the Democratic party is now a MAGA champion with unorthodox views on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ousted Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad.
Tulsi Gabbard arrives before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Pittsburgh on November 4. AP
As US President-elect Donald Trump has remade the Republican Party over the past eight years, several of his nominees to serve in his next cabinet have undergone their own political evolutions, tacking sharply to the right as figures and ideas once considered fringe have entered the party’s mainstream.
Of all of Trump’s cabinet nominees, though, perhaps none have covered quite as much political ground as former Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard, whom Trump has tapped to serve as his director of national intelligence (DNI).
