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Newly-minted Republican Tulsi Gabbard singled out one key point of former President Donald Trump’s White House run that had Democrats “freaked out” that should give the GOP hope.

Joined by fellow transition team member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Reclaim America Tour, the former Hawaii congresswoman spoke to Trump bucking the establishment in preparing for his potential return to office. Primarily, she addressed how the team had snubbed taxpayer funding and the strings that come attached to maintain a private enterprise “that is already getting to work.”

On stage in Charlotte, North Carolina with moderator Monica Crowley, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs during the Trump administration, Gabbard pointed out, “Over the last few days there have been some articles written by the mainstream media talking about membered Democrats in Congress and others in the Biden administration who are expressing their grave concern about the fact that President Trump is doing something that has not been done before in what Bobby just talked about.”

“That he has a privately-funded transition team that is already getting to work.”

“And they’re like…’How come he’s not using taxpayer dollars for it this and going through the Government Accountability Office? Something is very wrong here,’” she continued. “We should all have hope at how freaked out they are, because we’re not allowing Joe Biden’s Government Accountability Office to control President Trump’s transition team.”

In one example, Politico argued on Oct. 18 that the president “weighing a go-it-alone approach to presidential planning…could dramatically slow his takeover of the federal government if he wins in November.”

Making note of the unlimited private donations that could be raised toward the effort and the fact that there was no requirement to accept GAO assistance, the article cited “experts” who suggested, “it’s likely to further set back its preparations, already running well behind schedule, to take over the executive brand and its millions of employees.”

Kennedy had brought up Trump’s interview with Joe Rogan and how previously the president had taken advice as an outsider to appoint the likes of John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in his first administration.

“This time I’m not gonna do that,” the president told Rogan.

“And he got private donors to fund it, and he’s appointed 20 people including me and Tulsi, and there’s people of all different kinds of ideology and people who we’re gonna have to go up against on that transition team and fight for our vision,” the environmental attorney explained. “But I can tell you this, which is unique: there are no corporate lobbyists on that transition team. And usually, it’s 100% corporate lobbyists. So it’s very, very different, and it gives me lots of hope that this government is gonna be different than any government we’ve ever seen.”

However, Gabbard argued the real reason the left was outspoken on the funding was not out of some concern about the smooth transition, but rather, “They’re freaking out because they can’t place their moles within the transition team to try to figure out what Donald Trump is doing so that they can spin up their media propaganda machines and try to preempt and undermine the work that we are doing to bring great patriots together to actually fix the government.”

“So the doing things different has already started and the more you hear these people in Washington freak out, the more you should know, like, alright, we’re doing good,” she added.

To her point, a joint statement from transition co-chairs Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick had argued, “The Trump-Vance transition lawyers continue to constructively engage with the Biden-Harris administration lawyers regarding all agreements contemplated by the Presidential Transition Act. Any suggestion to the contrary is false and intentionally misleading.”

Further, in lieu of the GAO’s ethics pledge, team members had been made to sign a “robust ethics pledge” composed by the Trump-Vance team that included disqualification for anyone who’d participated in “regulated lobbying activities with respect to such matter, as defined by the Lobbying Disclosure Act, within the previous twelve months.”

Meanwhile, Politico reported that “The Harris transition requires that people who have registered as federal lobbyists in the last year receive approval from the office of general counsel.”

Gabbard’s callout to the difference in Trump’s current anti-establishment approach was indeed reassuring to many who also found comfort in her and Kennedy being involved and invested in the success of the GOP campaign.

Kevin Haggerty
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