Tulsi Gabbard faces Senate Republicans

Tulsi Gabbard is failing in her meetings to persuade Senate Republicans to support her unpopular nomination to be Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, according to a report. report from The Hill published Friday.

“She came off as a bit superficial, like a House member speaking at a hearing and not someone who should provide the president’s daily intelligence briefing,” a source close to the House told The Hill. meetings.

It seems that in her discussions, Gabbard was completely healthy, without anger. A Senate Republican, who called Gabbard’s meetings “BS sessions,” said several Republicans were waiting for more substantive answers.

“I heard she wasn’t very well prepared,” the Republican senator said. “I haven’t heard great things.”

A second Senate Republican said she got “a lot of stares” from senators.

A Senate GOP aide, one of whose staffers met with Gabbard, said her disastrous hearings with Senate Republicans “are not making it any easier” for her to gain the support she needs to be confirmed. “She has work to do if she wants the job. The more serious people she meets, the more they realize that there is a skills gap.”

The aide noted to The Hill that Gabbard was “just not informed” about the type of work involved in the position, but said she was “a competent person who could learn quickly.”

Gabbard is “probably more vulnerable than (Pete) Hegseth right now,” another source close to the meetings said.

Another Senate Republican pointed out that Gabbard’s problems stemmed from having to reverse her position opposing the reauthorization of FISA, a foreign espionage tool that she would have to defend as national intelligence chief American.

Gabbard’s candidacy for this high-ranking position has been the subject of widespread criticism, not only because of her lack of experience in the intelligence profession, but also because of her leaning For defend some of the world’s most violent autocrats, but of course she and Trump I have that in common.

Trump transition spokeswoman Alexa Henning rejected the notion that Gabbard had any difficulties during her meetings on Capitol Hill.

“These cowardly, anonymous sources are desperate to hold on to power, so they hide behind the media to spread these falsehoods that directly subvert the will of the American people. President Trump won with a mandate for change from the American people, and that is one of the reasons he nominated Lt. Col. Gabbard to serve as DNI,” Henning said in a statement.