Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, brought in over $1.2 million last year as a MAGA surrogate, according to a financial disclosure released Saturday.
The former Democrat turned conservative superstar made just under $300,000 in an advance for her book For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, nearly $200,000 as a Fox News contributor, nearly $120,000 as a media contributor for the right-wing American Center for Law and Justice and more than $170,000 for over a dozen speaking engagements, including at the Heritage Foundation.
That’s in addition to the nearly $415,000 the former Hawaii congressmember pulled in from her businesses, Tulsi Media LLC and TOA Studios LLC, and her podcast, “The Tulsi Gabbard Show.”
And Gabbard is also financially invested in the cause, the filings show — with $100,001 to $250,000 in stock each in the MAGA streaming site Rumble and Tesla, the car company run by Trump’s biggest donor and top adviser Elon Musk. She also declared $1,001 to $15,000 in Apple stock, $15,001 to $50,000 in Nvidia stock and $50,001 to $100,000 in a Texas real estate fund.
Gabbard holds $18,004 to $95,000 in crypto, with most of that in Bitcoin and smaller amounts of Cronos, Solana and Ethereum.
The DNI nominee, whose Senate confirmation hearing has been delayed, took out a $250,001 to $500,000 mortgage on a personal residence last year.
In a separate filing, Gabbard pledged to divest from Tesla, Apple, Nvidia and crypto.
She also said that Tulsi Media would “cease engaging in any business” once she is confirmed for as long as she is director of national intelligence and will transfer her interest in TOA Media to her husband. She said she would also stop working on her podcast and would resign from eight entities, including a handful of fundraising groups, the American Center for Law and Justice and the celebrity advice platform Minnect.
In the ethics agreement, Gabbard said she previously resigned as a contributor for Fox News and would have a “covered relationship” with the network for one year, under which she “may receive a written authorization to participate personally and substantially” with Fox.
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