Trump says his director of national intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard is "loaded up with common sense"

President-elected Donald Trump on Thursday heralded the “common sense” of Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate who Trump recently picked to be his new director of national intelligence.

“I’ve always admired her, and I’ve admired her because she was loaded up with common sense,” Trump said while praising Gabbard at the American First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

“And it’s all about common sense,” Trump added. “I mean, we’re conservative in this room, but we can understand the other side, but what we really are is people with common sense, and I think that’s why we won with the numbers that we won by.”