NEW YORK Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over an interview in which Clinton appeared to call Gabbard the favorite of the Russians.
NEW YORK — Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over an interview in which Clinton appeared to call Gabbard “the favorite of the Russians.”
Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, said in her lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan that Clinton’s comments in a podcast last year in which she suggested that Gabbard was being groomed by Russia to be a third-party candidate were based on either her own imagination or “extremely dubious conspiracy theories” that any reasonable person would know to be “inherently and objectively unreliable.”
During the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate, Gabbard criticized a TV commentator she said had called her “an asset of Russia.”
Without naming Gabbard, Clinton appeared to agree with the characterization during a podcast appearance days later on “Campaign HQ with David Plouffe.” Plouffe was campaign manager for President Barack Obama in 2008 and served as served as a senior adviser to the president.
“She’s the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton told Plouffe, who was campaign manager for future President Barack Obama in 2008, referring to a person she had earlier identified as a woman “who’s currently in the Democratic primary. … They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”
The lawsuit charges that Clinton “reserves a special hatred and animosity for Tulsi” because Gabbard endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders over Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary campaign and never endorsed Clinton.
Asked to comment on the lawsuit, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said, “That’s ridiculous.”
Gabbard, whose support among Democratic primary voters has averaged around 1% in polls, has said she will not run for president as a third-party candidate.
Anything for attention, Tulsi. Of course Hillary should maybe shut her mouth also. She has no one to blame for her loss but her own arrogance.
Ms Gabbard must be trying to get her support from Democrat voters down below 1%. When she says (“”her own imagination or “extremely dubious conspiracy theories” that any reasonable person would know to be “inherently and objectively unreliable.””) she seems to be talking about herself.
Tulsi, there is no middle road. Differentiation will get you nowhere with the rabid Democrats as you can see!
Abandon the left, leave the dark and their hate and their lies. Come to the Right.
Good for her…it is time that political idiots from both sides are held responsible for what they say. Like anyone else if they say something about someone that is untrue and damaging left them pay the price! This exempting themselves for the laws they pass should stop. Hope she wins big
Tulsi is desperate for attention.
Some people think Tulsi is a Russian bot!