President-elect Donald Trump has made so many amazing Cabinet and advisor selections that it's not surprising to watch many of them face extreme resistance from the establishment and their media allies.
According to the New York Post, former Hawaii lawmaker and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, who switched to the Republican Party this year, is gaining major support for her upcoming Senate confirmation.
Gabbard was picked by Trump to be his Director of National Intelligence, a high-profile post that shows Trump's high confidence level in Gabbard's abilities.
The former lawmaker hasn't seen as much resistance as other Trump hires, like Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
A former CIA counterterrorism chief recently explained why he backs Gabbard's confirmation to become the next DNI in a recent editorial in National Review.
She has the right experience, temperament, and professional integrity to restore faith in America’s intelligence community,” Bernard Hudson, a Harvard fellow and 28-year CIA veteran who oversaw the agency’s war on terrorism, the Post noted.
The outlet added:
Restoring faith in the intelligence community is an “urgent task,” he said, following “spectacularly wrong calls” by the the US intelligence community in recent years and “flimsy accusations” that a sitting US president was also a Russian agent.
Hudson added that her bipartisan background "could go long way toward reestablishing credibility with Americans."
The DNI is a powerful position in any Cabinet, as it oversees the nation's 17 intelligence agencies.
Her nomination didn't come without controversy at the beginning, as a smear campaign was quickly launched due to allegations against "her of being an agent of Russia — and focused on her meeting with Syria’s dictator Bashar Al-Assad in 2017."
The president-elect heaped praise on Gabbard and her ability to lead the nation's intelligence and counterintelligence agencies, which play a critical role in the safety of Americans both at home and abroad.
"I know Tulsi will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our Intelligence Community, championing our Constitutional Rights, and securing Peace through Strength," Trump wrote in November.
Gabbard has received a ton of praise from Trump's supporters even before she switched to the Republican Party and ultimately endorsed Trump earlier this year.
Try as they may, it appears that Gabbard won't have much in the way of tough time being confirmed in the Republican-controlled Senate in January.
