Democrats trash Tulsi Gabbard after Trump taps her for DNI post

Some Democratic lawmakers blasted erstwhile Rep. Tulsi Gabbard aft President-elect Donald Trump tapped her to service arsenic Director of National Intelligence, a cabinet-level post.

Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., declared successful a station connected X that she was "appalled" by the enactment of Gabbard for the role. 

"Not lone is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics successful conspiracy theories and cozies up to dictators similar Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin," Spanberger claimed successful a station connected X.

TRUMP APPOINTS TULSI GABBARD AS DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: ‘FEARLESS SPIRIT’

Former President and Republican statesmanlike campaigner Donald Trump dances arsenic helium leaves the signifier aft speaking alongside erstwhile Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during a municipality hallway gathering successful La Crosse, Wisconsin, connected Aug. 29, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., called the prime of Gabbard arsenic DNI "incredibly reckless," declaring successful a tweet, "Putting idiosyncratic with known sympathies for overseas adversaries is not putting America’s interests archetypal - it’s putting our information astatine risk."

Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-R.I., seemed to suggest that having Gabbard service arsenic DNI would spot nationalist secrets astatine risk.

"Tulsi Gabbard’s heavy ties to immoderate of our nation’s astir unsafe adversaries, including Bashar al-Assad of Syria and Vladimir Putin of Russia, marque her an untrustworthy guardian of our nation’s astir intimately held secrets," Magaziner said successful the statement. 

"As the highest-ranking quality authoritative successful the national government, she would person entree to accusation spanning everything from our nation’s atomic weapons programme to the determination and activities of our subject work members, and we cannot hazard this accusation falling into the hands of our adversaries," helium asserted.

TRANS ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS WILL GET ‘RADICALLY WORSE’ UNDER A HARRIS PRESIDENCY, WARNS TULSI GABBARD

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks during a Trump run rally astatine the Greensboro Coliseum connected Oct. 22, 2024, successful Greensboro, N.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Gabbard served successful the U.S. House of Representatives from aboriginal 2013 done aboriginal 2021 arsenic a Democrat. She mounted a statesmanlike bid successful 2019 but yet dropped retired successful 2020 and backed Joe Biden.

The erstwhile lawmaker supported Trump during the 2024 predetermination and announced that she was joining the Republican Party.

"I've been a worker for implicit 21 years, and presently service arsenic a Lieutenant Colonel successful the Army Reserve," she noted successful a station connected Veterans Day this week. 

TULSI GABBARD SAYS TRUMP ‘LISTENS’ AND ‘RECOGNIZES’ CHALLENGES AMERICANS FACE

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard during a Trump run lawsuit astatine Fly Advanced successful Lititz, Pennsylvania, connected Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"The champion mode for america to grant our veterans, not conscionable connected #VeteransDay, but each day, is to marque definite that our men and women successful azygous are lone sent into harms’ mode arsenic a past edifice erstwhile each diplomatic measures person been exhausted, and really instrumentality attraction of them and their families, if and erstwhile they instrumentality home," she noted.

Fox News Digital attempted to scope retired to Gabbard for remark connected Thursday.