Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) says former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is on a "quest for freedom" and "understands that the Constitution, first and foremost, applies to American citizens," Breitbart reported. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Gabbard to be his Director of National Intelligence, much to the chagrin of Democrats.
Van Orden was on Breitbart News Daily on Monday and gushed about Gabbard's qualifications. He said Gabbard is "an American patriot" and "is an incredibly level-headed, smart thinking person that listens to problem sets and then tries to come up with a great solution."
"And what she has that other people don’t have in our intelligence agencies, as of late — she has a quest for freedom, and she understands that the Constitution, first and foremost, applies to American citizens," he added. Van Orden noted that Gabbard will "make sure that Americans constitutional rights are adhered to" as part of Trump's Cabinet.
"I really have to commend President Trump again, a slate of absolute winners here that are going to do great things for the United States," Van Orden said of his picks. He noted that Gabbard is qualified as a "military officer that’s done multiple deployments."
Democrats are attempting to block Gabbard's confirmation by calling her "traitorous" for her hesitancy to jump into war. Van Orden responded to these critics when Slater asked whether he could "trust her" given her record.
"Of course I do. And listen, people said that crap, and then immediately following that, they published a picture of Nancy Pelosi sitting six feet away from Assad," Van Orden said of the former House Speaker and former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
"So knock that off," he added. Van Orden said that one of the reasons he was voted into Congress was "to try to figure out why these people that are sentient beings can come up with these crazy ideas" about Republicans and overcome them.
“There’s a lot of very, very intelligent people here on the left, they just aren’t smart, you know what I mean? So my constituents have sent me here to sit down and talk to them and try to find common ground with my fellow Americans that I disagree with. And they come up with policy solutions, right?" Van Orden pointed out.
"So if you are in a position of authority, and especially when you’re talking about intelligence things, or, you know, Tulsi was a member of Congress. If you’re not getting outside of your comfort zone and talking to people that you don’t really want to, but you’re doing it for the purpose of making America better again, by understanding the thought process of our adversaries, you’re not doing your job," he added.
Van Orden pointed out that the same people who object to Gabbard speaking with America's adversaries are the same ones who perpetrated the "worst coverup in the history of the United States of America, and that was the absolute mental decline of President Joe Biden." It was clear that Biden had slipped in his cognitive abilities, but Democrats kept up the ruse until it was undeniable.
"They all knew. They all knew that Joe Biden couldn’t tie shoes for all intents and purposes, and they covered that up so that the 25-year-old staffers and them could run the country," Van Orden charged.
"That’s a travesty," he added. "So anybody that’s been saying this garbage about Tulsi and Pete [Hegseth] and everybody else, they need to look in the mirror and realize they have no business in a position of power because they intentionally covered up the fact that the President of the United States — who allegedly had keys to the nuclear arsenal — didn’t tie his own shoes for years," Van Orden said.
"So they have lost all credibility, and they should be ignored, and they should be voted out of office resoundingly," the Wisconsin Republican concluded. Instead, they're trying to block Trump's nominee.
Gabbard is a solid pick with the experience necessary to do the job well. The warmongers in the Washington, D.C. swamp and obstinate Democrats are trying to keep her out of Trump's Cabinet for precisely that reason.
