It would appear that Steve Bannon set up the meeting with Rep. Gabbard and Mr. Trump:

thehill.com

Bannon set up Trump-Gabbard meeting
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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.

Many in the media raised their eyebrows when the news broke that Trump was meeting at Trump Tower Monday morning with Hawaii’s Democratic congresswoman.

But for those who know Bannon best, there was no surprise at all.

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.

More at The Hill. It would seem that Rep. Gabbard has broken with the Democrats on a number of issues.

A search of “Gabbard” in the Breitbart News archive turns up five pages of archived stories, many of them reported over the past year.

The stories highlight Gabbard’s criticism of the Obama administration over its plans to defeat ISIS, including the president’s convening of a White House summit on violent extremism, an event Gabbard described on Fox News as a “diversion from what our real focus needs to be.”

Other Breitbart stories on Gabbard note her full-throated support for Israel, her support for the Kurds and her backing of a bill that would make it all but impossible to admit Syrian refugees into the U.S.

When the Democrats condemned the selection of Steve Bannon as an advisor to Mr. Trump, guess which Democrat chose not to join in that condemnation?

Wingnut governor Mary Fallin (R-Okla) was there as well.
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I wonder if a primary challenger to Rep. Gabbard is worthwhile in Hawai’i.