Tulsi Gabbard: “It would be an honor to serve in the Trump administration”

Former Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard told Fox News Digital on Monday that she would be “honored to serve in a possible Trump administration.”

Gabbard has expressed a desire, if appointed, to hold a position where she can have the greatest influence, particularly in areas related to foreign policy or national security. Gabbard is an active military veteran who has completed two tours in the Middle East and currently serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

“I believe it is in the areas of national security and foreign policy that I can have the greatest impact and advocate for the changes that President Trump is talking about,” Gabbard said Monday night at a fundraiser for her campaign in Atlanta, Georgia. Gabbard added that her priorities include ending “the influence of the military-industrial complex,” preventing World War III and bringing the U.S. back “from the brink of nuclear war.” War should be the “last resort,” Gabbard said. She also supported former President Trump’s plans to end the war in Ukraine.

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Tulsi Gabbard speaks on Fox News Digital on Monday, September 16, 2024, about joining a possible Trump administration.

Gabbard served as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee between 2013 and 2016 and previously supported candidates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and President Biden. But Gabbard blamed a change within her former party that she disagreed with and became increasingly friendly with the GOP before leaving the party and eventually joining Trump’s transition team last month.

“I meet a lot of people every day in a lot of different places who are former Democrats or who are leaving the Democratic Party,” Gabbard said Monday. “People who recognize the same things that I do and have experienced the same things that I have and recognize that the Democratic Party of today does not stand for them, does not stand for freedom, does not stand for civil rights … does not stand for peace.”

Former President Trump has recruited former Hawaiian Rep. Tulsi Gabbard ahead of his upcoming debates against Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)

The former Democratic congresswoman spoke out openly against the influence of a Harris administration on world peace and on Monday sharply criticized Democrats – including Vice President Kamala Harris – for what she sees as their refusal to establish diplomatic relations with the United States’ opponents.

“President Trump did in his last term what President Obama refused to do, what President Biden refused to do, and what Kamala Harris clearly refused to do – which is to go out and do the hard work that a president and commander in chief has to do in diplomacy,” Gabbard said. “Not just hanging out with his friends, allies and partners, but actually going out and talking to his opponents.”

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Gabbard argued that peace will remain out of reach until leaders in the White House are willing to engage in this kind of diplomacy. She also accused Harris of escalating the war in Ukraine and treating the threat of nuclear catastrophe “lightly.”

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“The longer this war goes on and the more Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and the neoconservatives in Washington escalate this war, the greater the risk of a possible nuclear war, a third world war,” Gabbard said Monday. “It is unconscionable and unacceptable that Kamala Harris and others who continue to escalate (the war in Ukraine) treat the reality of nuclear war so lightly.”