Bannon set up Trump-Gabbard meeting

[octoberlib]

Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon contacted Tulsi Gabbard to arrange Monday’s meeting with the president-elect, according to a source close to Bannon.

“He reached out to her, not vice versa,” the source told The Hill on Monday.

Bannon, who hates the entrenched two-party system, has long admired Gabbard. She’s an Iraq War veteran with an independent streak. Bannon, a navy veteran, was drawn to her when she began publicly excoriating the Obama administration over its plan to defeat ISIS.

“He loves Tulsi Gabbard. Loves her,” a second source familiar with Bannon’s thinking told The Hill. “Wants to work with her on everything.”“She would fit perfectly too [inside the administration],” the source added. “She gets the foreign policy stuff, the Islamic terrorism stuff.”

Bannon appreciates Gabbard’s willingness to publicly criticize President Obama for refusing to name the enemy, “radical Islamic terrorism.” “For him it’s a win-win when a Democrat is saying those things,” said a third source, who used to work under Bannon at Breitbart News.

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[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Go figure.

[octoberlib]

4. I had the same reaction.

[Vinca]

2. "She gets the foreign policy stuff, the Islamic terrorism stuff . . . "

plus she's easy on the eyes. Hint to Tulsi: stay at least an arm's length away from the orange blob.

[world wide wally]

3. OK, so our President-elect and his cohorts all use the term "radical Islam"

Is ISIS gone now?

[octoberlib]

5. To them all Islam is radical.

[LisaM]

6. No surprise to me. n/t

[Me.]

7. Door...Back End

And all that

[still_one]

8. They can get together with their anti-Muslin rants. Maybe they will put her in charge of the

Internment camps