曾经作为民主党人竞选总统的塔尔西·加巴德(Tulsi Gabbard)正在担任前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)2024年竞选团队的重要角色。
周四，当特朗普访问威斯康辛州的拉克罗斯时，她将与他一起主持特朗普竞选团队所说的“市政厅”。
加巴德本周早些时候在密歇根州的舞台上公开支持特朗普，并与前民主党人小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪一起加入了他的总统过渡团队
加巴德说:“本届政府让我们在全球多个战线和地区面临多场战争，比以往任何时候都更接近核战争的边缘。”。“这是我致力于尽我所能将特朗普总统送回白宫的主要原因之一，在那里，他可以再次作为我们的总司令为我们服务。”
特朗普称加巴德是一个“了不起的人”，他期待与她合作。
加巴德是一名退伍军人，曾在国会代表夏威夷州八年，他也一直在帮助川普准备9月10日与副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的首场辩论。加巴德在2020年民主党初选中与哈里斯和总统乔·拜登辩论，并因瞄准哈里斯作为检察官的记录而成为当时的头条新闻。
自2022年离开民主党注册为独立人士以来，加巴德采纳了几个与特朗普及其共和党盟友一致的观点。
这包括反对美国支持乌克兰在与俄罗斯侵略者的斗争中;对特朗普刑事起诉的批评;和“觉醒”的民主党意识形态的言论。
在外交政策方面，加巴德是一名反干涉主义者，她指责乔·拜登总统的政府在全球范围内煽动紧张局势——当她成为独立人士时，她将民主党人描述为“战争贩子的阴谋集团”。
“如果拜登政府/北约只是承认俄罗斯对乌克兰成为北约成员的合理安全关切，这将意味着美国/北约部队就在俄罗斯边境上，这场战争和苦难本来可以很容易避免，”她在2022年的X上写道，该网站原名Twitter。
她还分享了指控美国参与乌克兰生物武器实验室的虚假信息。她的评论遭到了犹他州共和党参议员米特·罗姆尼等人的反对，他称她的评论是“叛国的谎言”，是“鹦鹉学舌式的虚假俄罗斯宣传”
大约在这种说法传播的时候，美国国务院表示，克里姆林宫故意散布“美国和乌克兰正在乌克兰进行化学和生物武器活动的彻头彻尾的谎言”
俄罗斯入侵乌克兰的那一年，加巴德多次出现在塔克·卡尔森主持的福克斯电视台(Fox)节目中，讨论这场冲突，其中的片段在俄罗斯官方媒体上播出。
离开民主党后，她在2022年中期选举中为否认选举的人竞选，包括亚利桑那州的Kari Lake和新罕布什尔州的Don Bolduc -两人都被击败。
在Bolduc的一次活动中，她比较的拜登总统(在退出竞选后，她在2020年的初选中支持了他)败给了阿道夫·希特勒。
在2023年对福克斯的杰西·沃特斯的评论中，加巴德继续将拜登与希特勒相提并论，她说拜登和民主党对多样性的关注与“纳粹主义和阿道夫·希特勒所体现的遗传学家核心原则”相似。
最近，她指责拜登将执法武器化，以追捕他的政治对手，此前特朗普因处理机密材料和努力推翻他在2020年选举中的失败而受到联邦指控。
在今年早些时候的保守派政治行动会议(CPAC)上，她像许多共和党人一样，表示对川普的刑事指控是为了干涉2024年的选举。
“民主党精英和他们的亲信正在利用我们的刑事司法系统起诉共和党总统候选人，并在他的竞选活动中分散他的注意力，”她说。
在拜登退出竞选后，加巴德将她的注意力转向哈里斯——尽管他断言联邦政府中有一个更大的“深层国家”在运作。
“拜登出局了，卡玛拉当选了。不要被愚弄:政策不会改变。就像拜登不是发号施令的人一样，卡玛拉·哈里斯也不会。她是深层国家的新傀儡，也是好战分子阴谋集团的女王希拉里·克林顿的女仆。他们将继续努力把世界卷入战争，夺走我们的自由。
Tulsi Gabbard's transition from Democrat to high-profile role with Trump's 2024 campaign team
Tulsi Gabbard, who once ran for president as a Democrat, is taking on a prominent role as part of former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign team.
On Thursday, she will moderate what Trump's campaign is calling a "town hall" with him when he visits La Crosse in battleground Wisconsin.
Gabbard publicly endorsed Trump on stage in Michigan earlier this week, and joined his presidential transition team along with fellow former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts and regions around the world and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before," Gabbard said. "This is one of the main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he can, once again, serve us as our commander in chief."
Trump called Gabbard an "amazing person" and that he looked forward to working with her.
Gabbard, a military veteran who represented Hawaii in Congress for eight years, has also been aiding Trump as he prepares for his first debate against Vice President Kamala Harris on Sept. 10. Gabbard debated Harris and President Joe Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, and made headlines at the time for taking aim at Harris' record as a prosecutor.
Since leaving the Democratic Party in 2022 to register as an independent, Gabbard's adopted several views that align with those held by Trump and his Republican allies.
That includes opposition to U.S. support forUkrainein its fight against Russian invaders; criticism of the criminal indictments against Trump; and statements railing against the so-called deep state and "woke" ideologies of the Democratic Party.
Gabbard, an anti-interventionist when it comes to foreign policy, has accused President Joe Biden's administration of stoking tensions around the globe -- describing Democrats as a "cabal of warmongers" when she became an independent.
"This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/NATO had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine's becoming a member of NATO, which would mean US/NATO forces right on Russia's border," she wrote of the Russia-Ukraine war on X, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022.
She also shared false information alleging U.S. involvement in Ukraine biological weapons laboratories. Her comments received pushback from the likes of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican, who described her comments as "treasonous lies" that were "parroting false Russian propaganda."
The State Department, around the time such claims were being spread, said the Kremlin was intentionally proliferating "outright lies that the United States and Ukraine are conducting chemical and biological weapons activities in Ukraine."
The year Russia invaded Ukraine, Gabbard made multiple appearances on Tucker Carlson's show on Fox to discuss the conflict, clips of which were aired on Russian-state media.
After leaving the Democratic Party, she campaigned for election-deniers in the 2022 midterm cycle, including Arizona's Kari Lake and New Hampshire's Don Bolduc -- both of whom were defeated.
During an event for Bolduc, shecomparedPresident Biden (who she endorsed in the 2020 primary after bowing out of the race) to Adolf Hitler.
In 2023 comments to Fox's Jesse Watters, Gabbard continued to make comparisons to Hitler as she said Biden and the party's focus on diversity was similar to the "geneticist core principles embodied by Nazism and Adolf Hitler."
More recently, she's accused Biden of weaponizing law enforcement to go after his political opponent after Trump was indicted on federal charges stemming from his handling of classified material and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) earlier this year, she suggested, like many Republicans have, that the criminal charges against Trump were an effort to interfere in the 2024 election.
"The Democrat elite and their cronies are using our criminal justice system to prosecute and distract the Republican presidential candidate in the midst of his campaign," she said.
After Biden dropped out of the race, Gabbard turned her focus toward Harris -- though asserted a larger "deep state" was at work in the federal government.
"Biden's out, Kamala is in. Don't be fooled: policies won't change. Just like Biden wasn't the one calling the shots, Kamala Harris won't be either. She is the new figurehead for the deep state and the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers. They will continue their efforts to engulf the world in war and taking away our liberty," Gabbard claimed on X.
