Former Democrat presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday, citing the threat of her former party sparking a nuclear war as a reason.
“This administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world – and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before,” Gabbard explained in an address to the National Guard Association:
“This is one of the main reasons why I am committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House where he can once again serve us as our Commander-in-Chief, because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.
“We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace.”
Gabbard, a former Democrat Congresswoman for Hawaii, also warned that, as president, Kamala Harris would continue the Biden-Harris administration’s weaponization of government to persecute, and prevent Americans from being able to vote for, their opponents:
“And, we can’t live free as long as we have a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil liberties, weaponizing our very institutions against those they deem as a threat.
“Kamala Harris has done this over the last three-and-a-half years. She won’t hesitate to continue that if she is elected as president.
“President Trump has been their first and foremost target in this because they don’t want us, as voters, to even have the option to vote for him.”
But, it’s not just Donald Trump who’s being targeted by the Biden-Harris administration’s weaponization of government, Gabbard said, noting that even she has been victimized:
“I’ve been their most recent target, added to a secret domestic terror watchlist after exposing the truth about what kind of dangers we would face if Kamala Harris is elected as president.
“We, as Americans, must stand together to reject this anti-freedom culture of political retaliation and abuse of power. We can’t allow our country to be destroyed by politicians who put their own power ahead of the interests of the American people, our freedom and our future.”