(American Thinker)—Now that President Trump’s National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, is exposing the depths of the Democrat deep state’s disinformation operation against President Trump as a Russian agent as he entered office in 2021, it’s worth noting that the operation had a lot of casualties on the way — people who were smeared, often in the press at the explicit direction of the Obama White House — one of whom was Gabbard herself.
Anyone recall how Hillary Clinton attempted to smear Gabbard herself as a “favorite of the Russians” and a “Russian asset”?
It led to backtracking in that Clinton later claimed that she was referring to ‘Republicans’ rather that Gabbard, but the damage was done, leading to this lawsuit from Gabbard in 2020:
Washington, DC – Tulsi Gabbard, a United States Congresswoman, Army National Guard Major, and 2020 presidential candidate, today filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gabbard, a U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district, asserts in her complaint that Clinton deliberately and maliciously made false statements in an attempt to derail Rep. Gabbard’s campaign, by alleging that Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Brian Dunne and Dan Terzian, Rep. Gabbard’s legal counsel and partners at Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP.
Clinton was the 2016 Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States, United States Secretary of State from 2009 until 2013, a United States Senator for the State of New York from 2001 to 2009, and the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. On October 17, 2019, she publicly stated in an interview that “somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary … [is a] favorite of the Russians… Yeah, she’s a Russian asset.” The press extensively republished and disseminated these statements, which were interpreted widely as Clinton asserting that Gabbard is a Russian asset.
After that, Gabbard dropped the case, probably for lack of funds, but asserting she believed in its merits nevertheless. Hillary’s staff mocked her in Russian as a result.
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