Tucker Carlson interviews his friend Tulsi Gabbard. Those who remember Tucker Carlson’s term on Fox News will remember Gabbard as a frequent guest of his on the show. Within this interview it is easy to spot the “as you well know” aspect to the length and depth of their friendship.
Tulsi Gabbard was former Vice-Chair of the DNC and a strong supporter and advocate for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democrat presidential primary. Within the interview, Tucker emphasizes the possibility of Gabbard as a selection for a Donald Trump running mate. In fact, the topic is so frequent within the interview, it appears the primary purpose of the interview itself is to strengthen Gabbard as a VP possibility.
The interview has the feeling of intent within it; a feeling of script; perhaps, a feeling of a pantomime playing out in the form of an interview. The emphasis for Gabbard’s value is shaped in the interview narrative that ‘foreign policy’ would be her benefit to President Trump. However, as noted by the experience of the first term of President Trump, and as noted within the outcomes of that term, Trump’s foreign policy is quite good with him at the helm of it. WATCH:
As a possible policy emissary, or deputy in-line cabinet member, Tulsi Gabbard has some value. [Deputy, not Primary] However, as a Vice President the ‘trust factor’ must remain the most important element to the success of term two. As a result, from my perspective, Tulsi “Bernie” Gabbard would be a, “nice try Tucker,” but no.
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:09:20 Why Tusli Gabbard left the Democratic Party
00:26:31 Hillary Clinton’s baseless accusations against Gabbard
00:30:26 Who’s truly running the government right now?
00:32:28 Congress and financial corruption
00:40:03 Tulsi Gabbard’s change in perspective
00:57:07 Donald Trump’s VP
A hard NO on Tulsi we have a lot of very mart LOYAL people we do not need to reach outside of MAGA . paging Dr Carson
SMART
Yeah, if I’m picking Trump’s running mate, and he’s not going to go with an “MAGA insider” (lots of possibilities there), I’d rather he pick Vivek than a hard core, socialist Democrat. We may have common enemies with Tulsi, but are nowhere near her policy positions. I personally like her, she’s seemed to have more integrity than most, but whoever is Trumps V.P., should Trump ’47 become a reality while Trump is yet alive, will be first in the queue to follow him. Trump cannot possibly do what needs to be done within his four years, simply because it’ll require a GOP House and Senate, and we haven’t had either of those in my nearly seven decade lifetime. We need more than just a majorty in “(R)”s. We need HONEST, and maybe MAGA types willing to fall in line with President Trump’s leadership. That ain’t happening by January 2025. In fact, we’ll be lucky of most elected GOP House and Senate members don’t join the Democrats in an attempt to prevent Trump from being elected, taking office, remaining a free man, or … even staying alive. So, the guy or gal who follows Trump, must be able to do so for EIGHT YEARS, and must be willing to cut the size of the Federal government by half, bring the budget under control, maybe even begin show a surplus, as well as secure the border, rebuild a legtimate US military (i.e. non-Marxist-Woke version), and 10,000 other things.
Tulsi isn’t that person. I’m not certain who we can trust to BE that person, since I distrust nearly every elected politician, staffer, or consulting in the GOP. (And yeah, I don’t trust Vivek, either!)
One more thing: The make or break question that I would hope that Trump would ask ANY of his potential VP candidates, is this: “Do you believe that President Biden is the legitimate President of the USA? Do you believe that he received 84 million LEGITIMATE votes? Do you believe that the 2020 Presidential election was essentially honest, i.e. that it reflects the will of the people?” There is only one, honest answer. Then one more: “Do you believe that the Americans who attended the January 6th rally in Washington, DC, who have been charged and/or convicted of crimes and/or imprisoned, have been fairly and legimately treated by the Biden DOJ? Have their Constitutional rights been honored and respected by the DOJ?” If the prospective candidates can’t answer those quickly and without reservation, they are NOT the appropriate VP for MAGA.
(Oh, and by the way, Mr. Pence, you failed on every one of those questions. You were NEVER qualified to be VP, let alone a Governor, or DOG-F***KING-CATCHER.)
100% on the question as to whether Biden is the legitimate president. That will tell you everything you need to know.
You are too good to pence
Wow, your post is a mouth full, and right on
Vivek is native born, not natural born. He isn’t eligible for the Presidency.
Vivek is native born. Not eligible.
Once a Lib, always a Lib-chaos and destruction is their only product.
Here’s yet another take. If Kennedy were a legitimate “rogue” candidate, versus an old-line LIBERAL Democrat, he’d have picked Tulsi for VP, rather than a Democrat-money-bundling-lawyer. There would be PLENTY of patrinage jobs he could offer to people like his VP pick, but Tulsi would have been consistent with his campaign.
Kennedy is a Kennedy. ALL Kennedy’s have proven corrupt. His GRANDFATHER was a prohibition bootlegger and big-city-election fixer. (That’s the truth!) Kennedy’s campaign is for benefit of any-Democrat-who-Beats-Trump. He’s is Clinton’s “Perot option”. (Perot was ALSO a big Democrat; I know. I used to work for the guy. He was all about giving the 1992 election to Clinton.)
What should we tell all of the minority who are coming over from the Democrat party? Get out, we don’t want you? We need to accept people who have changed their mind, even if they did so yesterday.
I was thinking the same thing this morning – what the President needs is someone actually loyal to the country, and to him if selected. I like Gabbard’s policy views on several fronts, mostly foreign policy. The problem is she’s reinvented herself too many times within a short window for me to believe she is loyal. Now, I do believe her to be a good hedge against the Military Industrial Complex and the 4th Branch of Government. But I would guess something else President Trump is thinking is selecting someone as a hedge/inducement to the MIC and Intelligence Community to make it appear they have a good chance at remaining in power so they don’t cheat as hard this time.
Mike Flynn
I’ve always liked this choice as the premier FU choice. Realistically though I fear Flynn might be to focused on the MIC. There are other fish to fry.
But the MIC is the most important one to fry.
Or John Radcliffe. He knows where some bodies are buried, I’m sure.
What about Kari Lake?
She may not win in Arizona as a Senator.
Once a cucumber and now a pickle? She can never be a cucumber again.
I am taking those words
I have always admired Tulsi Gabbard for her loyalty to her own principles and to her country. Her defection from the Democratic party is because of her strongly held convictions. Her rejection of the progressive side of politics is because she understands the graft and corruption, the turning away from God, that is sending America down the drain. She saw it up close and personal and is calmly articulate and measured about what she sees as the problems to be solved and how to Make America Great Again, before it’s too late. She would make a very fine VP under Donald Trump.
ummm…no…she is World Economic Forum.
Yes. She. Is.
I did some research. She says not. She certainly doesn’t talk as if she is.
Yeah, like Trump needs a WEF stooge at his back.
NOT!
Methinks you have been bamboozled.
Democrat. The party is Democrat, not Democratic. The Roman Empire became democratic. The Roman Empire collapsed. History rhymes.
Ben Carson, Devin Nunes, or Kari Lake….VP
Devin Dunes is like Trump — tough.
Exactly
Ben, Trump trusts implicitly.
Kari, dream ticket.
Tucker, leftist/marxist heads would explode
Vivek, could be the future of the America First movement with Kari Lake.
Gorka a while back said he knew who Trump chose for his vp. It is a male from NY who is not a politician and no one has mentioned his name. That’s all “the boss” allowed him to share.
Don Jr., maybe Eric but Eric is probably a better keeper of the Trump trust than rear guard for dad.
They’re both from the same state. A lot of voters — D & R — would look at it as nepotism.
Neither son (nor their eldest sister, as a matter of fact) would be eligible to be VP/POTUS, they are native born not natural born U.S. citizens. Ivana Trump did not become a naturalized citizen until well after the births of her three children. The late 1980s, I think. Also, I am not into the “dynasty” thing.
I’d love for that New Yorker to be Gerald Celente….
My guess is that person would be Lee Zeldin.
Zeldin is not a non-politician.
Nunes, maybe, but Carson and Lake are too inexperienced. Nunes is smart and tuff but picking him is like a shore up the base kind of pick. The base is solid as is.
Nunes would be act 2 after 4 years.
Jumped around in the interview, but … Google “Tulsi Gabbard endorses Trump.” Know what you get? Nothing. She has not committed to Trump. Why no simple statement of endorsement? Seems to me if you want to play on the team, you first have to put on the uniform. She comes off as way too coy about it, leaving herself a back door to pick and choose those Trump policies she agrees with and those she doesn’t. Nope. Sign on and commit to support all of MAGA without reservation, or get out of the way. We don’t need another Pence.
Trump 2024
You say it well, as far as I am concerned. Give her a job that doesn’t require a confirmation hearing, so you can get her in, and out if necessary. I think SD is reading her about the way I have been, just better, as usual.
Lahaina, Tulsi.
I am sorry but I am not quite buying her “aloha” schtick – why doesn’t she get out there with the other people fighting for the truth to be told regarding August 8, 2023.
Why don’t you get out there and challenge that totally weird governor who seemed so thrilled to speak at the UN about a “green program” for Hawaii.
Why don’t you raise holy hell and demand help and answers for people who suffered, for the trapped people in cars who died in the fire? You don’t want to challenge anyone politically there and get your shoulder to the wheel with others who are still striving to get answers?
Watching the wonderful people at those County meetings in the weeks following the fire – so articulate in their grief – BJ Penn, one of the citizens speaking out, I did not know who he was or that he himself had run for Governor but he put it so beautifully about the current governor, that he is a weak, weak man. Nani Medeiros who was running the meeting was very upset with people like BJ Penn showing up, God bless him. She soon stepped down.
Look at the stupid housing project that Nani Medeiros had worked on for Hawaii – just damn shacks without a bathroom, without running water and without means to store/refrigerate and prepare food. She was proud of THAT as a “housing solution”.
The Martin Scorcese film recently out about the Osage people of Oklahoma and the ugliness of the people who endeavored to take over the properties (and the rich oil reserves) was about something that happened years ago . . . but it is very similar to my mind about what is happening in Lahaina on the Island of Maui right now –
there are parties doing whatever it takes to literally steal the lands of the people who own it . . . people who are of generations of native Hawaiians and then also people from other Pacific Islands as well as from the Mainland who have lived there for decades, keeping on their land, struggling to keep their places with all members of the families working various jobs but the property taxes go up – that’s one way to get a hold of property – also a devastating fire where the people cannot even communicate with their mortgage companies in the aftermath of the fire because for some reason the cell towers did not work.
There are so many terrible things wrong about what happened in Lahaina and what is continuing to happen and part of it is a plan to make it a “15 minute City” – isn’t that a World Economic Forum dream?
So, I want Tulsi Gabbard to absolutely repudiate the World Economic Forum and all their aspirations PLUS she should be over there in Lahaina standing up for the people there -otherwise her aloha and flower in the hair and cool mellow surfer girl vibe is a bunch of bullshit, every bit as bad as John Bolton or Mike Pence.
I think she is just another of those revolving-door types of people who stand around waiting to get tapped for some important role to mess things up further!
I agree with you.
I want less information control.
On the ground on Maui: Archie Kalepa speaks about the future of Lahaina
https://rumble.com/v38qzhw-on-the-ground-on-maui-archie-kalepa-speaks-about-the-future-of-lahaina.html
Lahaina was one of our favorite places. You hit many of the right keys and I feel your emotions
Thank you
Me too re VP —-But we don’t owe Tulsi any place within the Trump administration. Only 100% MAGA on the inside.
Nicely stated
Well said.
Two spooks walk into a bar and start chatting…
…but the bartender isn’t a bartender, the patrons aren’t patrons, and the bar isn’t a bar.
Place your bets.
Seems like the entire world is a – *sting*… excellent movie, great cast!
Tulsi is a graduate of the WEF training institute. How can she even be close to MAGA? Never trust a WEF graduate.
No on TG!!!!! Just NO!!!!!
The internet says she isn’t.
Having Tulsi as VP would guarantee Trump would be assassinated.
demonic
Just say no! She has a WEF “young leader” education. And her presentation is waaaaaaaay too slick. So no thanks. And don’t turn your back on her. I do NOT trust her! At all!! If she gets a cabinet position there should be someone assigned to watch her. Closely.
No former Democrats needed for VP, much less Trump’s cabinet. Tulsi should remain where she is. Trump needs a loyal outsider like Dr. Ben Carson.
https://discerningpundit.com/2024/02/10/trumps-vp-must-be-an-outsider/
Let her run for Governor of Hawaii and prove she can manage something. Congress People/Lawyers are not good managers.
Yes, she needs to challenge the present Governor of Hawaii – really show how MAGA she is, for the suffering people of Lahaina and the rest of Hawaii as well – IMHO, Lahaina is a laboratory of sorts on how to steal land from people.
I’m OK with Gabbard now that she’s not singing the Democrat Party fight song. If she talks, I’ll listen and most of what I have heard her say over the last couple of years has been reasonable. I could never support anyone, however, who was a supporter of Bernie Sanders for Trump’s VP. There are plenty of people Trump can choose from. He doesn’t need to go … there.
A word on Tulsi for vice-president: NO!
Agreed!!!!!
She’s anti 2A and that’s where the road ends. I learned her ideology when living in Hilo. A snake who loves a sucker and uses her military service ad nauseum.
Trump’s VP must be the next in line to lead the great MAGA nation.
IMO Not the best choice – but
“pants down” –
heaps better choice than Pence … here the … words fail me!
“Better choice than Pence” is a VERY low bar.
For a high bar; “name someone better for VP than Dr. Ben Carson.”
Ben Carson is smart, smooth and probably loyal. He maybe the one
He would not strike fear in the Uniparty/Deep State.
I would probably not vote the presidential ticket if he chooses her for VP.
Concern noted.
Hard NO, She is deep STATE a FAKE!!!
Yes she is….
Jeez Tucker. Just admit you want to boink her and get it over with. How pathetic.
Bishop Bullwinkle explains it all.
Not no, but
He** No !!!
IMHO, Vivek’s the best choice.
Trust God. Fear not.
Even worse. Forget about it.
Someone needs to inform her that we have a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC.
Haven’t watched yet.
Did Tucker bring up the incident where Gabbard publicly referred to President Trump as “Saudi Arabia’s bitch” and ask her to clarify that point?
Nope. And didn’t bring up the meeting she had with Trump regarding veterans. I see her working for the Trump administration but NOT as vp.
She might be good as head of the VA and given orders to straighten that org out.
The VA has so many problems. Not sure if she has problem solving qualities
No consoldatiion prizes. Not MAGA? — then no room in the administration for you. No more potential leakers, snakes on the inside. There are plenty of competent MAGA people to fill all the openings in a Trump administration.
RE Tulsi and a future Trump administration:
Connected to WEF –not eligible
Connected to CFR –not eligible
Didn’t endorse President Trump –not eligible
Voted “present” during impeachment –not eligible
Anti 2A –not eligible
The MAGA movement is not short on good talent. Let’s not bring non-MAGA people inside the administration.
if you’re puzzling over consoldation … not a new word .. a typo. Meant consolation.
🙂
I watched the interview and was quite surprised that Tucker did not talk about Gabbard’s support of Sanders (or the letter written to her from the DNC as a result) and how her ‘opinion’ changed from BIG government to an advocate of the Constitution. I found this quite questionable.
I heard Tulsi talk about it, and the letter.
Nov. 20th, 2017
This story and photo above are seven years old:
https://www.brassballs.blog/https/newsothersmisscom/nato-plot-coup-trump-canada-ukraine-david-j-kramer-halifax-international-forum-mccain-fiona-hill-russian-dossier-cia-hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-adam-schiff-dnc-mike-rogers-nsa-fisa-weapons-co-hlnkm?rq=tulsi
Bottom row: starting left is John McCain (R-AZ), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer
Back row: starting far right is Tulsi Gabbard (D-HA), Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), CIA’s Mike Pompeo (R-KS), second from left is Tom Cotton (R-TX), others unidentified
Also in attendance was Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mike Rogers, former Director of NSA
Is the man seen between and behind Cotton and Pompeo our wonderful speaker of the house?
I think you are right!
Probably not, but looks like him.
I’m glad for the distance Tulsi has covered in her journey. But I feel it’s still too soon to entrust her with the VP, with its authority and its pathway to the top job. She has some roots that I would need to be more assured are resolved. Perhaps in the future. Meanwhile, there are several others without baggage. Donalds might be the right guy.
She has a place in the cabinet but the VP must be 100% trustworthy – rock solid – and ready to carry the ball if that should become necessary. I only see Gaetz, Flynn or Lake as meeting that criteria.
Why should she “have a place in the cabinet?” What has she done that warrants giving her such a position?
Interesting comment and history of Gabbard here:
I still like Devin Nunes for VP and Trump Successor.
You hit the nail on the head when you describe a VP nominee as PDJT’s successor!
PDJT’s “work” will require more than a single four-year term.
In 4 years, the GOP will be very different from today’s party, and will have different leaders, so noone can begin to guess who will rise to the top, including the VP. My expectation is that the party may be a 3d party moving on and leaving the GOP behind.
I’m sorry, but I’m going to be contrarian here.
Many of our best leaders began life as a “progressive” or “socialist”, etc. Am I convinced that Tulsi has made the change to America first? No, not yet. The proof lies in her actions, and continued action.
What I do believe is that she has found the trail to MAGA, and is still traveling down it. My bad analogy is this, when a person finds Christ, they find the lifelong trail that they must decide to travel down for the rest of their life. Do they make mistakes, Yep- proof right here in ME. But the proof is in getting up, dusting yourself off, and getting back on the trail. I think Tulsi is there. Maybe stumbling sometimes, but getting up and pushing on down the trail.
Do I believe Tulsi is ready to be a MAGA VP. Nope. But I think she has the chops, and the willingness to learn, and what better place place to be, to learn, to be close to a Master in the class, President Trump, in a capacity where she can truly learn and understand what we are standing for.
I’ve seen many comments suggesting Ben Carson, Kari Lake, etc. Understand, they began their early adult years in a similar place as Tulsi has been. They were fortunate in that they profited from good mentorship, and learning over a period of years. And No, I don’t say these things because I adore this woman. I see her as being ina place where I was 30-40 years ago.
She mentioned the Fall of 2022 as being a turning point and realizing she couldn’t change the party from within to return to its roots.
We don’t have the time to wait for her to come around – and why should we – what is so spectacular about her that we need her right now? We need somebody who is already THERE, who has been on the right track for a long time. This is no time to experiment – the stakes are too high.
Another person who changed was Ronald Reagan. He was always an outsider, but he did okay in the end and he had no mentor. Was he ever certified as a conservative? Nope, don’t think so.
https://valueinvesting.io/nancy-pelosi-stock-trades-tracker
I see this woman as the Democrat version of Miss Piggy (Liz Cheney)
I will always see Liz as Miss Piggy ( no offense to piggy)
Tulsi is fine tuned controlled opposition. Carson is the most reasonable pick.
IMO, Trump needs a VP that the left would find absolutely objectionable as president. Should the democrats gain control of the House and maintain the Senate they would not hesitate to remove djt for any reason they could make up. Unless the VP was someone they would consider worse.
Any position for this WEF alum in the 2nd President Trump Administration: um, NO.
Gabbard is anti gun, I don’t trust her, period. Too prepped, smooth talking. She is a product.
They let Reagan get elected but only after installing CIA Bush as his VP, then promptly tried to have Reagan killed.
No thanks, no way.
Reagan was a life long Dem. until he wasn’t, never in the military and pro gun control when Govenor of California.
The only person who could possibly survive the continuous Lawfare would be another self-made billionaire who was not beholden to someone else.
Tulsi will bring a Tidalwave of Dems to the Trump vote. The GOP of Trump is Populist, it is on longer the party of Bill Buckly. The old saying that a Conservative is just Liberal that has been mugged, I think Tulsi has been mugged. With Genral Flynn at Sec. of State. national security would be okay.
When Tulsi ran for president as a Democrat in 2020 did she get a single delegate before dropping out? I don’t think she would pull in any new democrat voters.
The only Democrat candidate in 2020 was Hillary. The fix was in. Tulsi stood up to her though. In 2024, she would pull in alot of women and anyone contemplating changing parties. She talks smoothly because she knows what she believes. Reagan did the same thing.
I gave Gabbard kudos for shoving the “Russian lackey” thing back in Felonia von Pantsuit’s face and for her on – stage disembowelment of Kamala Mattressback during one of the Dem debates.
I would choose Albert Mohler.
She is a WEF stooge
As she said, she supported Sanders in a limited situation against Debbie Wasserman-Schulz because of his anti-war stance and the issue of not making an endorsement. She was punished severely by the party and learned a lesson.
“Mitt Romney [as much as] called her a Russian asset”, as well as members and leaders of her former party.
NO NO & HELL NO!! 😡 And if he’s friends with people like her, who is HE really? Who are any of these people, REALLY? Did he really want to be part of the CIA as Putin suggested? I trust NO ONE!
I am deeply suspicious of this woman, who was raised in a cult in Hawaii. The Science of Identity Foundation is an offshoot of the Hare Krishnas. Remember them, the airport people?
I don’t care what the cult itself espouses. That part is irrelevant to me. What is relevant is, when you are raised in a closed, strange, 1000-member enclave, your ability to think for yourself is compromised, period. Psychologically, Tulsi is going to be weird.
Here are some links about this cult and her connection to it:
https://www.businessinsider.com/tulsi-gabbard-science-of-identity-controversial-religious-sect-2022-10
https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/ny-magazine-looks-at-gabbards-science-of-identity-foundation-background/
“Tulsi Gabbard was former Vice-Chair of the DNC and a strong supporter and advocate for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democrat presidential primary.”
Oh hell no!!!
I’m not seeing questions about WEF involvement on that list.
Just being involved with that at one time doesn’t mean a person still is, or supports their goals today.
I can remember when the WEF didn’t sound as sinister as it has revealed itself to be now.
The thing is, Tucker would need to actually ask her some direct questions about it.
He must know by now that this is something people are concerned about.
Why isn’t he giving her an opportunity to dispel people’s reservations?
I never trusted her.
Absolutely NO to Tulsi.
HARD PASS ON TULSI!
She’s a gun-grabbing, Antifa loving, Democrud from Obummer’s home state. We already tried that experiment and it failed, miserably.
Here she is posing with Antifa Leaders.
https://greatawakening.win/p/15K6JT1SFx/just-a-reminder-tulsi-gabbard-wi/c/
8 years forward and a turn to absolute evil in that time by the “democratic” party. She’s now 8 years older and wiser- hopefully.
I agree motive and loyalty are big questions.
I think she would bring with her normal democrats( if there is such a thing) , youth, female, military experience and perspective.
I just pray Trump’s pick is not from the DC sewer, and is an absolute outsider.