Rachel Maddow on Tulsi Gabbard: Six things about Trump's pick for director of national intelligence

Tulsi Gabbard was homeschooled her whole life, except for two years she reportedly spent in the Philippines attending a Hari Krishna school run by disciples of the self-proclaimed guru that she and her family follow.

Her father once flew from Hawaii all the way to North Carolina to lead a protest against there being a gay character on Dawson 's Creek.

She introduced an anti trans bill just before she left Congress in 2020 , she enthusiastically endorsed Ron Desantis's Don't Say Gay bill.

Tulsi Gabbard's bottom of the barrel presidential campaign did take up a lot of her time though.

While she was campaigning she missed 85% of the votes that happened in Congress , 85% . She so abandoned her congressional seat during that campaign that there were high profile calls from Democrats in Hawaii that she should just make it official and resign her seat.

She did not resign. She did make it to work for one important vote. She ended up being the only member of the House who voted on the first Trump impeachment.

She's raised a lot of money, but it's murky where all the money has been going.

The vast majority of it appears to have not gone to political campaigns.

But all her various PACs, and indeed at a charity she recently started, are all being managed by real financial professionals.