Is she a Russian asset or a dupe?

When you woke up yesterday, the idea that Pete Hegseth — a philandering morning TV host who has never run anything bigger than a frozen banana stand — could serve as Secretary of Defense was the most ridiculous idea in the history of the federal government .

By dinnertime, Trump published two nominations that made Hegseth look out Bobby Gates.

Matt Gaetz’s appointment gets the most attention because of its irony. Is the DoJ controlled by a man who was recently investigated by the same department for having an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl whom he (allegedly) paid to travel with him? It’s too good.

Moreover, the attorney general could do a lot of damage to America in the short term. The AG has the power to both turn the state against its citizens and to protect wrongdoers from liability.

But it is the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence that concerns me more. Because Gabbard has been looking and acting like a Russian asset for a decade.

In four terms as a congresswoman, her most notable actions were the continued defense of two war criminals: Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.

Let me tell you her story.