Source: Democratic Rep. Gabbard meeting with Trump, talking top jobs in DC

[Renew Deal]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Hawaii Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team Monday for a possible top job in the new administration, a source said.


Also expected to meet with Trump today at Trump Tower are former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao and Newt Gingrich.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/21/politics/gabbard-trump-transition/?sr=google_news

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See also: Why didnt Tulsi Gabbard join 169 of her colleagues in denouncing Trump appointee Stephen Bannon?

[cilla4progress]

1. Wow

[still_one]

2. Elain Chao is Mitch McConnel's wife, and she was a complete disaster under bush. No doubt

Gabbard is being considered because of her anti-Muslim past

This is like a who's who of the people who can inflict the most damage to America

We are so screwed

[geek tragedy]

3. Remember when *some* progressives were calling for her to be the head of the DNC

and holding her out as the model for progressive leaders?

LOL.

She's an anti-Muslim bigot who refused to sign the letter condemning the hiring of Steve Bannon.

[DURHAM D]

11. Yep.

Right here on DU.

[dbackjon]

18. Yup - I have been condemning her since BEFORE her election

I don't trust her.

[obamanut2012]

40. And is rabidly anti-gay

Although she fakes right now she isn't.

[MattP]

4. Always said she was a Dino and was the go to for Fox

Long before she went for Bernie

[Starry Messenger]

5. I predict this thread will be quiet.

From certain quarters...

[LenaBaby61]

7. I predict this thread will be quiet.

Wouldn't shock me at all ^^^

Personally, I've never really cared for Tulsi Gabbard, and especially since she's shown herself to be anti-Muslim in her leanings.

Another DINO star is being born. SMDH.

[Sunlei]

6. Repubs- disorganized transition! 40 people run through sat&sunday, golf club- speed dating!

[BlueCaliDem]

8. Color me NOT surprised. Gabbards only sided with Bernie to defeat Hillary Clinton. Tulsi is NO Dem

because I don't know any Dems who are openly anti-Muslim and who criticized President Obama so voraciously as Tulsi. Add to that, her entire family is Republican, so...

I hope that when she's up for re-election in 2018, she's resoundingly defeated now that she happily went to meet with Putin's puppet.

[George II]

9. Just as we suspected way back in the spring.

[onecaliberal]

10. Bigots are us.

[Laurian]

12. Let her go work for Trump and replace her with a real Democrat in the House.

This election has certainly been eye opening, hasn't it? She's an egotist or a Republican, likely both. Seems the R's generally put their own interests above all else.

[WhiteTara]

13. Well, maybe we can get a real democrat to take her place.

She is really a disappointment. Another Bernie star.

[Sunlei]

14. Not all bad-"Gabbard calls for a restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act", "Gabbard is pro-choice"

"Gabbard favors tax incentives for renewable energy"

trumps having a hard time filling the top positions, no one wants to do his work or work with him, except foreign lobbyists.

[geek tragedy]

16. Trump used to be pro-choice. Some people just have zero principles. nt

[Sunlei]

24. trump has trouble finding people to work for him. I doubt she will want to give up her position.

trump won't want her when he finds out she also supports much easier visas.

[leftofcool]

29. She is also anti gay marriage.

[Sunlei]

30. she may evolve someday like so many Americans have

[PassingFair]

33. Link? nt

[billh58]

38. Her Hawaiian politician

father (Mike Gabbard) is a flaming homophobe, so it runs in the family.

[obamanut2012]

42. Yup, and very proudly is

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Unreal.

[hrmjustin]

17. She will destroy any career in the party by doing this.

I never trusted her and now I know why.

[FailureToCommunicate]

19. Eight dimensional chess perhaps?

[TexasTowelie]

20. Could she be the one

that helped Wikileaks circumvent the systems at the DNC? She certainly had working knowledge since she was vice-chair.

[LeftInTX]

21. OMG

[OnDoutside]

31. Interesting thought.

[Tarheel_Dem]

35. That certainly bears contemplation. I despise her with the heat of a thousand suns.

[LisaM]

39. Wow - hadn't occurred to me.

Of course, I didn't like her during the primaries, but it didn't occur to me she'd consider working with Trump, either.

I do remember thinking that she was seriously mis-labelled as a "rising Democratic star" when she left the DNC in a huff and started working against Hillary. I'd never really heard of her before.

[obamanut2012]

43. i SAID WHEN IT HAPPENED LAST YEAR

I was shocked she had such a big role at the DNC, because of her background, and then when that happened.... inside job, y'all.

[JudyM]

22. She may be flawed, but at this point, anyone he picks who isn't *hard right* is somewhat positive.

It's all relative in the swamp.

[geek tragedy]

25. that assumes she won't morph into a hard right pol

when it suits her.

[obamanut2012]

44. She alraedy is hard right, and proudly so

She has never been a Dem, ever. Trojan horse sent ti try and get Bernie the nom and defeat HRC.

[JudyM]

45. In light of her history, that bashing seems off-base, unless you have some facts to back it up.

Nothing suspect about refusing to march in absolute lock step to the party lines... if more people would exercise stronger moral judgment we'd be in far better shape now, as a party and as a country.

[radical noodle]

23. How many more rogue Dems will be uncovered

by Trumpism? Islamophobia is not acceptable in the Democratic Party. She criticized Hillary for not saying Islamic Terrorism. I was never a fan.

[MFM008]

26. Ask me if I'm surprised

Go ahead....ask.

[leftofcool]

27. No surprise there.

[lunamagica]

28. K&R. She's disgusting

[PoiBoy]

32. Gabbard statement on meeting with president elect Donald Trump

Posted without comment...

http://gabbard.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/655-gabbard-statement-on-meeting-with-president-elect-donald-trump

[Arazi]

34. Thank you

[Tarheel_Dem]

36. Tulsi Gabbard equals Zell Miller in heels.

[billh58]

37. And Joe Lieberman

snuggling up to the neocons...

[obamanut2012]

41. She is a Trojan horse -- thank god she is not be in charge of the DNC

Like a certain group wanted her to be.

She is a rabidly anti LGBT, anti Muslim hardliner Consrvative, from a family as bad as she is, who "converted" to get elected as a Dem and try to ruin the DNC and the Dems.

I am not a CT theorist, but have said that for forever, and this shows I was right.