Tulsi Gabbard used to be a Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii, but she left Congress after turning independent and said Monday she would be "honored" to join a Trump administration if he is elected in 2024.

Gabbard, a veteran of the active duty military and a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, said she would like to work in foreign policy or national security.

"I feel I can make the most impact in these areas of national security and foreign policy, and work to bring about the changes that President Trump talks about," Gabbard said Monday at a fundraising event.

She said she would work toward an end "to the influence of the military industrial complex," to prevent World War III and avoid nuclear war. War should be a "last resort," she said.

"Democratic Party of today doesn't stand for" civil liberties, peace

Gabbard joined Trump's transition team last month after leaving the Democrat party in 2022. Before that, she spent three years as the vice chair of the Democrat National Committee.

"There are a lot of people who I meet in a lot of different places every day who are former Democrats, or people who are leaving the Democratic Party," Gabbard said Monday.

She added, "People who recognize the same things that I have and experienced the same things that I have and realize that the Democratic Party of today doesn't stand for them, doesn't stand for freedom, it doesn't stand for civil liberties… doesn't stand for peace."

Gabbard has been critical of Democrats and Biden-Harris for their failures on diplomacy with adversaries and other foreign policy positions.

"President Trump did in his last administration what President Obama refused to do, what President Biden refused to do, what Kamala Harris has made clear she refuses to do – which is to go out and do that tough work that a president and commander in chief has to do in diplomacy," Gabbard said. "Not just hanging out with your friends, and your allies, and your partners, but actually going out and talking to your adversaries."

Harris "flippant" about nuclear war

She also criticized Biden-Harris for escalating the war in Ukraine and risking nuclear war (Russia is a nuclear power).

"The longer this war goes on and the more that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and the neocons of Washington continue to escalate this war, the greater risk we are of a potential nuclear war, World War III," Gabbard said on Monday.

"It is unconscionable and unacceptable that Kamala Harris and others who are continuing to escalate [the war in Ukraine] are so flippant about the reality of nuclear war."

World leaders aren't taking President Joe Biden seriously after he flubbed the Afganistan pullout disastrously and pretty much encouraged the Russian attack on Ukraine by removing sanctions from the Nordstream II pipeline.

On the other hand, world leaders never quite knew how to take former President Donald Trump, who spoke so strongly about what he could do militarily that he left them not knowing what he might do.