Attorneys for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) penned a letter to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday demanding that she retract her previous remarks suggesting that the Democratic presidential candidate is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; who is being &#8220;groom[ed]&#8221; to run as a third-party candidate.
&#8220;Your statement is defamatory, and we demand that you retract it immediately,&#8221; Gabbard&#8217;s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gabbard-campaign-accuses-clinton-of-defamation-over-fabricated-russian-asset-claim-demands-retraction">lawyer wrote</a>, calling for Clinton to both verbally retract the comments and post her retraction to social media.
&#8220;In making the statement, you knew it was false. Congresswoman Gabbard is not a Russian asset and is not being groomed by Russia,” the letter continued. &#8220;Besides your statement, no law enforcement or intelligence agencies have claimed, much less presented any evidence, that Congresswoman Gabbard is a Russian asset. This fabricated story is so facially improbable that it is actionable as defamation.&#8221;
The letter comes less than a month after the twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate sat down with President Barack Obama&#8217;s former campaign manager, David Plouffe, during an appearance on his podcast &#8220;Campaign HQ.&#8221;
&#8220;I think they have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She is the favorite of the Russians,&#8221; Clinton said at the time. &#8220;They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she&#8217;s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she&#8217;s a Russian asset — I mean, totally,&#8221; Clinton added. &#8220;They know they can&#8217;t win without a third-party candidate. So I don&#8217;t know who it&#8217;s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.&#8221;
While the former first lady refrained from naming the &#8220;Democratic primary&#8221; candidate to whom she was initially referring, Clinton&#8217;s spokesman Nick Merrill later confirmed that it was, in fact, Gabbard.
&#8220;If the nesting doll fits,&#8221; Merrill replied when asked directly about the congresswoman.
Clinton received widespread blowback for promulgating a conspiracy theory without any evidence to back up her contention. Gabbard subsequently fired back, calling Clinton &#8220;the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.&#8221;
Gabbard, who is the first female combat veteran in America to launch a bid for the presidency, has been outspoken about the importance of the time that she has spent serving the United States as both a soldier and as a public servant.
In August, the Hawaii congresswoman took a two-week leave of absence from her presidential campaign in order to report for active duty with the Hawaiian Army National Guard and participate in a joint training exercise mission in Indonesia.
&#8220;[Gabbard is] a patriotic loyal American, a sitting four-term United States Congresswoman and a Major in the United States Army National Guard,&#8221; the letter continued, adding that &#8220;she is a loyal American who has taken an oath declaring her allegiance to the United States of America both as a soldier and as a member of Congress.&#8221;

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Calls On U.S. Government To Release 9/11 Documents Implicating Saudi Arabia In Attacks

Tulsi Gabbard Gets Lawyers Involved, Accuses Hillary Of Defamation, Demands Retraction

Hillary Clinton

Russia

Tulsi Gabbard

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) has officially met the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s (DNC) threshold to qualify for the upcoming Democratic presidential primary debate in November.
&#8220;We wanted you to be the first to hear the news,&#8221; Gabbard&#8217;s campaign wrote in <a href="https://www.tulsi2020.com/updates/2019-11-07-breaking-tulsi-qualifies-november-debate?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=breaking">a statement</a>. &#8220;Today’s Quinnipiac poll out of Iowa means Tulsi will be invited back on the debate stage in Atlanta in just two weeks &#8212; continuing to speak truth to power, holding the DNC and corporate media accountable to the people and representing all of us in our fight for a more perfect union.&#8221;
&#8220;Polls should never supplant the democratic process embodied in our primary and caucus system, but they can show trends over time and our 100% grassroots momentum is growing stronger every day &#8212; especially in the critical early states where Tulsi is on the ground, speaking directly to voters,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;We just closed on our strongest fundraising month to date, and as of right now we&#8217;re only 8,897 donations away from hitting the unique donor threshold required to qualify for the December debate.&#8221;
A certified poll conducted by <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/ia/ia11062019_ipgt76.pdf/">Quinnipiac University</a> shows that the Hawaii lawmaker received 3% support in the the early primary state of Iowa. The poll, released on Wednesday, marked the final benchmark that she needed to overcome in order to receive an invitation onto the stage.
Gabbard is now the tenth Democratic presidential hopeful to meet the qualifying threshold and subsequently accept an invitation onto the debate stage: Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), billionaire financier Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and entrepreneur Andrew Yang will also be participating.
In order to nab a podium on the next debate stage, presidential candidates must raise campaign donations from no fewer than 165,000 individual donors. In addition, they must also receive at least 3% of the vote in four national DNC-approved polls and 5% in two early state polls &#8212; such as those in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, or South Carolina.
Candidates still have until November 13 to reach the required thresholds, however, Gabbard seems likely to be the final presidential hopeful to qualify. To date, former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro is the only other Democratic contender to have met any of the benchmarks &#8212; while he has hit the fundraising threshold, he has not received enough support in any qualifying polls.
Gabbard&#8217;s campaign enjoyed a surge of attention and fundraising in the wake of a heated exchange with twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Accordingly, Clinton seemed to suggest that Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; who is being &#8220;groom[ed]&#8221; to run as a third-party candidate in the 2020 election. The remarks provoked a fiery response from the Hawaii congresswoman who went after Clinton as the &#8220;queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.&#8221; The fierce rebuke provided renewed attention to her previously lagging presidential campaign.
Gabbard announced in late October that she was going all-in on her bid for the presidency and would therefore not be seeking re-election to her congressional seat. She was first elected to serve as the representative to Hawaii&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District in 2012 after winning more than 80% of the vote. She was the first Samoan-American and first Hindu member of Congress, and has since held the seat for three more terms.
As of publication, Gabbard sits at just under 2% support among Democratic primary voters, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">Real Clear Politics</a> national polling average.
November&#8217;s debate will be presented jointly by MSNBC and The Washington Post on November 20. MSNBC revealed earlier in the week that the debate moderators will consist of an all-female panel: Rachel Maddow from MSNBC, Ashley Parker from The Washington Post, and both Andrea Mitchell and Kristen Welker from NBC News.

Democratic Presidential Candidate and Hawaii Congresswoman

Tulsi Gabbard Qualifies For Upcoming Democratic Primary Debate

2020 Election

Democratic National Committee

&#8220;The View&#8217;s&#8221; segment with 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) erupted into fireworks Wednesday when Gabbard confronted co-host Joy Behar over Behar&#8217;s suggestion that Gabbard is a &#8220;traitor&#8221; and a Russian plant.
Gabbard returned to &#8220;The View&#8217;s&#8221; table on Wednesday after a rough first appearance earlier in the year, when co-host Meghan McCain <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-views-meghan-mccain-confronts-tulsi-gabbard-for-spouting-propaganda-from-syria">brought up Gabbard&#8217;s friendly relationship</a> with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, but this time, Gabbard came prepared for a fight &#8212; but with McCain&#8217;s left-leaning co-host, Behar.
In the show&#8217;s &#8220;hot topic&#8221; segment on October 21, Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin doubled down on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recent claims that Gabbard is a Russian sleeper agent within Democratic ranks, poised to disrupt the 2020 presidential election by launching a third party bid that will ultimately hand the election to Republicans.
Hostin called Gabbard a &#8220;Trojan horse.&#8221; Behar chimed in, calling Gabbard a &#8220;useful idiot.&#8221;
When she returned to &#8220;The View&#8221; stage on Wednesday, Gabbard came loaded for bear, confronting Behar over her claims and denying that she&#8217;s a &#8220;traitor.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to start with something that I think is also important about facts because recently on your show here — some if you have accused me of being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or&#8230;&#8221; Gabbard began, triggering Behar to interrupt.
“We haven’t accused you,” Joy Behar chimed in, clearly trying to forestall a confrontation.
“‘Useful idiot’ I think is the term that you used,” Gabbard snapped.
&#8220;I know Hillary Clinton thinks you’re a witting asset,” Behar said. “You might be unwitting. Not that that means you’re stupid, but people can be used,&#8221; Behar retorted, implying that Gabbard couldn&#8217;t think about the situation for herself.
“Let me start with how offensive it is to say that I am a witting or unwitting asset of a foreign country,” Gabbard said. “This is a country that I’m willing to lay my life down for. If you are saying it’s not deliberately, then you are implying that I am too stupid and naïve and lack the intelligence to know what I am doing. That’s extremely offensive to me and every woman of color.”
“I want to let your viewers know exactly who I am,” Gabbard continued. “Set the record straight. I am a patriot. I love our country. I am a strong and intelligent woman of color, and I have dedicated almost my entire adult life to protecting the safety, the security and the freedom of all Americans in this country.”
Behar also accused Gabbard of participating in &#8220;propaganda&#8221; and promoting &#8220;white nationalism&#8221; by going on Fox News.
“Well, I guess we’re getting a little bit far ahead of ourselves, but Franklin Graham finds uh-you refreshing,” Behar shot back at Gabbard. “He doesn’t find me refreshing. The white nationalist leader says he can vote for you. You were on ‘Tucker Carlson’ at least ten times. Why didn’t you go on Chris Wallace?”
“You raised a second issue about why I go on Fox News,” Gabbard responded. “I go on Tucker Carlson, go on Bret Baier, go on Sean Hannity, go on MSNBC, go on CNN. I am here to speak to every single American in this country about the unifying leadership that I want to bring as president, not just speak to those who agree with me, but to speak to those who may disagree.”
&#8220;This is why I’m here,&#8221; Gabbard finished. &#8220;Because you and other people continue to spread these innuendos that have nothing to do with who I am.&#8221;
The segment appeared to leave Behar speechless, but unsatisfied. Gabbard seemed pleased with the performance.
Since Clinton made her comments on David Plouffe&#8217;s podcast, Gabbard has shot up in the rankings among 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls and is now solidly in the second tier.

ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8211; Season 22

Tulsi Gabbard Crushes Joy Behar In Clash Over Clinton Accusations On &#8216;The View&#8217;

Joy Behar

The View

On Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) appeared on Fox Business Network’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo.
During the segment, Bartiromo asked Gabbard about her thinking when she voted in favor of the formalization of the impeachment inquiry on Thursday.
<blockquote>BARTIROMO: So, you voted “yes” on this resolution last week. Tell us why.
GABBARD: To get the facts. To get the information. There were serious questions and concerns being raised. The American people deserve to get some answers to those questions so we can bring out into broad daylight what exactly happened, gather this information – understanding that the vote that took place was a vote for more transparency as this inquiry continues.
BARTIROMO: What about the treatment of the Democratic party? I mean, you yourself have talked about this process being unfair, and we see this unfair treatment every day with this impeachment inquiry going on behind closed doors. Can you give us a sense of what’s going on in the [Democratic] Party that we’re not seeing more transparency on all of the above?
GABBARD: Well, I think one of the issues has been that only those who are serving on the Intelligence Committee have had access to the different interviews and conversations they’ve been having. I think as this inquiry moves forward, once again, this is why I voted for that inquiry the other day, is to make sure that the American people actually are getting the information that only some members of Congress have been getting access to thus far.</blockquote>
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Gabbard has previously appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity,” where she made <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-echoes-republican-concerns-about-closed-door-impeachment-process-on-fox-news/">similar remarks</a>.
“I think it needs to be a transparent process. I have long expressed my concern about going through impeachment proceedings in a very, very partisan way because it will only further tear apart an already divided country. I think that inquiry needs to be done in a very narrowly focused way, and it must be done transparently,” Gabbard told host Sean Hannity.
Gabbard added that she didn’t “have access” to much of the information, and that Americans “deserve” to see the evidence as it rolls out.
Polling data shows that a slim majority of the American people agree with the House’s impeachment resolution. As of publication, the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/public_approval_of_the_impeachment_inquiry_of_president_trump-6956.html">RealClearPolitics polling average</a> has 50.9% in favor of impeachment, and 42.3% opposed.
Looking more deeply into the raw data, three of the most recent polls suggest a general consensus around impeachment.
According to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-49-percent-favor-impeaching-trump">Fox News poll</a> conducted between October 27-30: “49% want Trump impeached and removed from office, 4% say he should be impeached but not removed, and 41% oppose impeaching Trump.”
An <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6538104-19433-NBCWSJ-Late-October-Poll.html">NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll</a> conducted at the same time asked respondents: “Based upon what you know today about President Trump&#8217;s call and actions related to his discussion with the Ukrainian president, do you approve or disapprove of the impeachment inquiry being conducted by Congress to determine if there is enough evidence to remove Donald Trump from office?”
53% approved, while 44% disapproved.
When probed further, 49% of respondents said they wanted Congress to “impeach Donald Trump and remove him from office,” while 46% said that the president should not be impeached or removed from office.
An <a href="https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/zgaz948hzw/econTabReport.pdf#page119">Economist/YouGov poll</a> conducted between October 27-29 asked respondents: “If the U.S. House of Representatives votes to impeach Donald Trump, do you think the U.S. Senate should or should not remove him from office?”
47% said that the Senate “should remove” Trump, while 40% said the Senate “should not remove” Trump from office. 13% were “not sure.”

Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard On Impeachment Inquiry ‘Yes’ Vote: I Did It For ‘Transparency’

Donald Trump

Impeachment

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) went after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Sunday  for conducting a Democratic presidential primary process that is not working in the interest of the American voters.
&#8220;What I plan to do as the Democratic nominee and as president is to rebuild a new Democratic Party &#8212; one that truly represents the interests of the people of this country, that is fighting for them, fighting for their wellbeing, fighting for the wellbeing of our country and protecting our natural resources on this planet,&#8221; Gabbard told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo during an appearance on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s unfortunate that we have seen, especially throughout this Democratic primary, how the DNC has kind of been implementing their own pre-primary election before voters even get a chance to vote,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m here in New Hampshire right now and voters here take very seriously the responsibility that they have as one of the very first in the nation to cast their votes about who they would like to see being our Democratic nominee &#8212; that is not something that the DNC or anyone should be taking away from them.&#8221;
This is not the first time that the presidential hopeful has butted heads with the Democrats&#8217; governing body, rather, she has been an outspoken critic of the DNC&#8217;s lack of transparency and arbitrary determination of which polls are deemed eligible in order to qualify for the presidential debates. In August, her campaign urged the DNC to reconsider their criteria and further slammed the organization for hindering conversations &#8220;between future leaders of this country.&#8221;
While the Hawaii congresswoman has previously ruled out launching a bid as an independent candidate if she fails to win the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nomination, speculation was reignited that she may after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; who is being &#8220;groom[ed]&#8221; to run on a third-party ticket.
Although the former first lady and twice failed presidential candidate refrained from naming the &#8220;Democratic primary&#8221; candidate to whom she was initially referring, Clinton&#8217;s spokesman Nick Merrill later confirmed that it was, in fact, Gabbard.
&#8220;If the nesting doll fits,&#8221; Merrill replied when asked directly about the congresswoman.
The remarks provoked a fierce rebuke from Gabbard who subsequently went after Clinton as the &#8220;queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.&#8221; The heated exchange provided renewed attention to her previously lagging presidential campaign.
Bartiromo addressed the rumors and questioned if Gabbard was mulling over a third-party bid amid the speculation.
&#8220;I am not,&#8221; Gabbard replied. &#8220;I have said numerous times that I would not run as a third-party candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;The perpetuation of that rumor has come from political opponents who really are just trying to create some kind of strange suspicion that I might do something else to try to undermine the support that we are getting from Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Libertarians, who are saying hey look, we want to come and vote for you in the Democratic primary because of the unifying message and leadership that I will bring to this country,&#8221; she added.

Tulsi Gabbard Takes A Shot At The DNC, Says She Will &#8216;Rebuild A New Democratic Party&#8217;

Democratic Party

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard said during a Fox News interview on Thursday night that the United States government is &#8220;hiding the truth&#8221; about the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Gabbard, a Representative from Hawaii, told Tucker Carlson that she believes that the U.S. government is covering up Saudi Arabia&#8217;s role in the attacks which killed thousands of Americans.
&#8220;This story that we’re hearing from the families of those who were killed on 9/11 pushes this issue to the forefront where, for so long, leaders in our government have said, &#8216;well, Saudi Arabia is our great ally, they’re a partner in counterterrorism&#8217; — turning a blind eye or completely walking away from the reality that Saudi Arabia time and again, has proven to be the opposite,&#8221; Gabbard said.
&#8220;They’re undermining our national security interests &#8230; they are the number one exporter of this Wahhabi extremist ideology,&#8221; Gabbard continued. &#8220;They’re a fertile recruiting ground for terrorists, like al Qaeda and ISIS around the world. They’re directly providing arms and assistance to al Qaeda, in places like Yemen, and in Syria.&#8221;
&#8220;And as we are seeing here, it is our government, our own government that is hiding the truth &#8230; and the many other families of those who were killed on 9/11,&#8221; Gabbard concluded. &#8220;For what? Where do the loyalties really lie?&#8221;
Gabbard concluded her remarks by saying that people should &#8220;follow the money trail. It goes back to the military-industrial complex.&#8221;
In a 2016 <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/saudi-arabia-terrorism-funding-214241">article</a> in Politico Magazine, Zalmay Khalilzad — a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations — wrote:
<blockquote>On my most recent trip to Saudi Arabia, I was greeted with a startling confession. In the past, when we raised the issue of funding Islamic extremists with the Saudis, all we got were denials. This time, in the course of meetings with King Salman, Crown Prince Nayef, Deputy Crown Mohammad Bin Salman and several ministers, one top Saudi official admitted to me, “We misled you.” He explained that Saudi support for Islamic extremism started in the early 1960s as a counter to Nasserism—the socialist political ideology that came out of the thinking of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser—which threatened Saudi Arabia and led to war between the two countries along the Yemen border. This tactic allowed them to successfully contain Nasserism, and the Saudis concluded that Islamism could be a powerful tool with broader utility.
Under their new and unprecedented policy of honesty, the Saudi leadership also explained to me that their support for extremism was a way of resisting the Soviet Union, often in cooperation with the United States, in places like Afghanistan in the 1980s. In this application too, they argued, it proved successful. Later it was deployed against Iranian-supported Shiite movements in the geopolitical competition between the two countries.
But over time, the Saudis say, their support for extremism turned on them, metastasizing into a serious threat to the Kingdom and to the West. They had created a monster that had begun to devour them. “We did not own up to it after 9/11 because we feared you would abandon or treat us as the enemy,” the Saudi senior official conceded. “And we were in denial.”</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks want the truth, and they deserve the truth. Join me in demanding all information regarding Saudi involvement in 9/11 attack: <a href="https://t.co/zVa2levIBv">https://t.co/zVa2levIBv</a> <a href="https://t.co/0nqz6VvLQo">pic.twitter.com/0nqz6VvLQo</a>
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1190253922776051712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Tulsi Gabbard: U.S. Government ‘Is Hiding The Truth’ About 9/11 Terror Attacks

Terrorism

Failed 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton may have gone silent on Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), the 2020 Democratic presidential contender whom Clinton suggested was a Russian plant designed to upend the upcoming election. Tulsi Gabbard, however, hasn&#8217;t forgetten their feud.
<a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-can-defeat-trump-and-the-clinton-doctrine-11572389508">In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece</a> published Wednesday, Gabbard says she is running for president in order to &#8220;undo Mrs. Clinton’s failed legacy,&#8221; citing her 2016 endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) against Clinton in the Democratic primary as proof she and Clinton have been in conflict for years.
Gabbard says that, in the years since Clinton&#8217;s last presidential run, she&#8217;s all but forgotten about Donald Trump&#8217;s chief rival but it&#8217;s now clear Clinton hasn&#8217;t forgotten about her.
&#8220;The smears have been nonstop ever since [2016],” Gabbard writes.
Clinton, of course, recently suggested on a podcast that Gabbard is a Russian asset, being groomed to launch a third party challenge, kneecapping Democrats against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they&#8217;ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,&#8221; Clinton said, before acknowledging that she meant Gabbard.
That set off a war of words between the two female legislators, with Gabbard replying on Twitter that Clinton is the “queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.&#8221;
Ouch.
Clinton eventually tried a bit of crisis communications &#8212; or, at least, her friends in the mainstream media did. The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/31/tulsi-gabbard-misquotes-hillary-clintons-jab-her/">Washington Post published</a> a &#8220;fact check&#8221; claiming that Gabbard had &#8220;misquoted&#8221; Clinton and that Clinton was referencing a Republican &#8212; not a Russian &#8212; effort to upend the presidential election. It was too little too late. Gabbard had already turned Clinton&#8217;s offhand comments into the foundation of a national campaign.
On Wednesday, Gabbard tried to keep the momentum going, hitting Clinton again.
“Whether Mrs. Clinton’s name is on the ballot or not, her foreign policy will be,” Gabbard wrote, adding that she&#8217;s battling a dozen other candidates who “adhere to her doctrine of acting as the world’s police, using the tools of war to overthrow governments we don’t like, wasting taxpayer dollars, costing American lives, causing suffering and destruction abroad, and undermining America’s security.&#8221;
Hillary Clinton has been silent in response, but her allies have not. Instead of hitting at Gabbard directly, Clinton associates have been conducting something of a whisper campaign, fomenting a concern among Democrats that Gabbard really is marshaling her troops for a third party bid &#8212; or at least a Democratic convention coup.
“She has absolutely zero path to becoming the Democratic nominee, so what is she doing?” Adam Parkhomenko, a former Clinton campaign aide <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/468167-gabbard-stokes-fears-among-democrats">told The Hill</a> in response to Gabbard announcing that she does not plan to seek re-election in order to focus on her presidential campaign. “To say that she’s going to take her campaign all the way to the convention just suggests that she’s trying to create chaos.”
That may not be entirely true. At the moment, there is no official Democratic frontrunner. Former Vice President Joe Biden has fallen behind in polls, both in early primary states and nationally. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is likely to be shut out of the nomination process altogether to preserve electability, and while Sen. Elizbeth Warren (D-MA) has surged in recent weeks, cracks in her pristine exterior have emerged. Democrats are increasingly concerned about her lack of fundraising power and her inability to articulate a cogent plan to implement her ambitious, spendy platform.
That leaves the field wide open for the ascent of a current also-ran, and Gabbard just surpassed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in the polls.

A ‘Failed Legacy:’ Tulsi Gabbard Blisters Hillary Clinton In Op-Ed

You won’t find me writing these words very often: Hillary Clinton might be right.
Allow me to explain. In recently calling presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard “the favorite of the Russians” and then implying that the Hawaii Democratic lawmaker is a “Russian asset” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-a-russian-asset-being-groomed-for-third-party-run" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-a-russian-asset-being-groomed-for-third-party-run&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGVS3shDmEGofY89D3ue2UBjbdnCQ">being groomed for a third-party run</a>, Clinton touched a nerve in foreign policy circles that extends beyond the “bunch of [Russian] sites and bots” that the 2016 Democratic nominee claims are now supporting Gabbard in 2020. And it even goes beyond how Gabbard <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-has-no-regrets-about-meeting-with-syrian-president-bashar-al-assad/2019/01/20/4006f920-1ce3-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-has-no-regrets-about-meeting-with-syrian-president-bashar-al-assad/2019/01/20/4006f920-1ce3-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFaPhrCSsmgTqybrw0riX8NEgJO0A">says she has no regrets</a> for meeting with Russian-backed Syrian dictator and war criminal Bashar al-Assad in 2017.
Gabbard’s willingness to go rogue isn’t limited to her exploits in war-torn Syria. Much like she defied a U.S. State Department advisory by sharing tea and biscuits with Assad, Gabbard flouted American policy during September of the same year by visiting the Armenian-occupied territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which the State Department explicitly <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rt/snec/c7560.htm" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rt/snec/c7560.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGTfsD-hrlxRJjDZLnUsVYmefafHQ">“does not recognize”</a> and which <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/13508.htm" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/13508.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFEMPxvEiN2qMWyjukEjcCkuLAXqw">several U.N. resolutions</a> affirm as part of Azerbaijan.
Nevertheless, Gabbard at the time <a href="https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-visits-armenia-congressional-delegation-enhance-us" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard-visits-armenia-congressional-delegation-enhance-us&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGucPjaDjeNLIlwZS0rNJ5Y5VdPZg">lauded</a> the “people of the Nagorno-Karabakh region” for exhibiting “shared [American-Armenian] values of freedom, democracy, and self-determination,” when in fact, sovereignty for Nagorno-Karabakh is a non-starter for Azerbaijan in any future peace talks with Armenia. Sound familiar? Gabbard’s notorious meeting with Assad ultimately isn’t all too different from her meeting with Nagorno-Karabakh’s unrecognized <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/20/bako-sahakyan-washington-visit-has-russia-fingerprints/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dailycaller.com/2018/03/20/bako-sahakyan-washington-visit-has-russia-fingerprints/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSETrV5CKH_mzDHSg4aQ_8b2uojg">“president” Bako Sahakyan</a>, a post-Soviet warlord who has links to Russian military intelligence and Middle East terrorists from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. In other words, Sahakyan isn’t exactly the poster child for a trustworthy negotiating partner.
Circling back to the hubbub surrounding Clinton’s remarks, one of the most definitive litmus tests for being a “Russian asset” is serving the interests of Armenia, <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/armenia-isolated-backwater-dump-because-of-russia/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/09/armenia-isolated-backwater-dump-because-of-russia/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHyQxCVqmaeOeq-VEuU1TBAclJdEQ">Russia’s de facto client state</a>. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the leader of Armenia’s so-called “Velvet Revolution,” has done nothing but perpetuate Armenia’s longtime status as the least independent of the post-Soviet states. Pashinyan has expanded Yerevan’s already-extensive military dependence on Moscow by acquiring the Russian Iskander ballistic missile system, while Russia’s security forces remain scattered across Armenia. If a picture tells a thousand words, the only image anyone needs to see in this regard is <a href="https://armenianweekly.com/2019/02/05/russia-to-boost-armenian-military-fighter-jets-approved/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://armenianweekly.com/2019/02/05/russia-to-boost-armenian-military-fighter-jets-approved/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQVYYhatYXhcTsVx3MVCYDJW6w3Q">Pashinyan inside the cockpit of a Russian Su-30SM fighter jet</a>. It seems, then, that associating Gabbard with Russia isn’t so far-fetched after all.
And when it comes to Gabbard’s roguish tendencies, it really does come full circle. Two times this year, Armenia deployed large teams of defense specialists and others to — all of places — Syria, under the guise of a “humanitarian” agenda which <a href="https://eurasianet.org/us-rebukes-armenia-over-syria-deployment" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eurasianet.org/us-rebukes-armenia-over-syria-deployment&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsje0BwJax6U_1nRX2TVqIOmreQQ">the U.S.</a> sensibly condemned as undue “engagement with Syrian military forces.”
It’s also shortsighted to avoid taking into account the <a href="https://www.jns.org/iran-views-us-withdrawal-from-syria-as-an-opportunity/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jns.org/iran-views-us-withdrawal-from-syria-as-an-opportunity/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGpOd4c9SWaNqg2oPxqJ4RIHUMCUQ">golden opportunity for Iran</a> and Russia alike that’s opened up by the U.S. withdrawal from Syria — and Armenia must also be kept in mind on the Iranian front, as Yerevan continues to defy Washington by <a href="https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/08/15/us-sanctions-two-armenian-firms/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/08/15/us-sanctions-two-armenian-firms/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF-oaU5h8Eo4zRF4o2V0iUkIFkhkA">helping Tehran circumvent American sanctions</a> and by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bogner-the-curious-case-of-rudy-giuliani-iran-and-armenia" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/bogner-the-curious-case-of-rudy-giuliani-iran-and-armenia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsGQJWPEbdYC5IFguKBy4vucObLw">paving the way for economic ties that could help Iran’s businesses increasingly penetrate Europe</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/miller-tulsi-gabbard-pro-assad-candidate-2020-paul-miller" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/miller-tulsi-gabbard-pro-assad-candidate-2020-paul-miller&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFHqmw8zVV8ffcjc-ZGNbo5P_KjTQ">I wrote earlier this year</a> that the mainstream media apparently ignore Gabbard’s propensity to sit at lunch tables with tyrants, warlords, and bloodyhanded strongmen. Yet sunlight is the best disinfectant, and Clinton’s comments have finally brought Gabbard’s disturbing moral compass (or lack thereof) to the forefront of public consciousness.
Of course, let’s not ignore Gabbard’s response to Clinton, whom the Hawaii congresswoman described as the “queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.” Indeed, Clinton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/libya-was-hillarys-war-heres-proof-joshua-yasmeh" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/libya-was-hillarys-war-heres-proof-joshua-yasmeh&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGM97OdjN1QNZ1XOn1Ol8JI15zuTQ">must bear a significant degree of responsibility for the Obama administration’s disastrous war effort in Libya</a>, and her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-reasons-trump-won-aaron-bandler" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-reasons-trump-won-aaron-bandler&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMwAGGKM0NKpxaJDqkDt4cc-nD-A">failed 2016 presidential campaign</a> won’t soon be forgotten by her supporters who had viewed victory as all but a foregone conclusion.
At the same time, notwithstanding anyone’s views about Clinton, let’s not automatically dismiss her assessment of Gabbard. Although Clinton didn’t mention Armenia by name in her comments about Gabbard, the link from Yerevan to Moscow is unmistakable — making “Russian asset” a characterization that merits serious consideration rather than a reflexive rolling of the eyes.
Americans should be grateful, then, that Gabbard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tulsi-gabbard-will-not-seek-reelection-to-congress" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tulsi-gabbard-will-not-seek-reelection-to-congress&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqlRPDV1gjx62ghb6FYDcXLjWNEw">won’t seek reelection to Congress in 2020,</a> regardless of the result of her presidential campaign. The more rogue legislators who depart Capitol Hill, the closer we get to sensible U.S. policy.
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Paul Miller is president and executive director of the news and public policy group <a href="https://salomoncenter.org/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://salomoncenter.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF8Fvh3pJcdsL-vARbD4XZcPMFLOg">Haym Salomon Center</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/pauliespoint" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/pauliespoint&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572541433189000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGxC57XDmDpawAldwo9XkDwMv84Rg">@pauliespoint</a>.

MILLER: Why Hillary Clinton Might Be Right About Tulsi Gabbard

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) revealed on Thursday that she has decided not to seek reelection to her congressional seat in order to focus on her presidential campaign.
&#8220;Today I&#8217;m officially announcing that I will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2020. Throughout my life, I&#8217;ve always made my decisions based on where I felt I could do the most good,&#8221; Gabbard said in a series of tweets. &#8220;In light of the challenges we face, I believe I can best serve the people of Hawai&#8217;i [and] our country as President and Commander-in-Chief.&#8221;
Gabbard was first elected to serve as the representative to Hawaii&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District in 2012 after winning more than 80% of the vote. She was the first Samoan-American and first Hindu member of Congress, and has since held the seat for three more terms.
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Today I’m officially announcing that I will not be seeking reelection to Congress in 2020. Throughout my life, I’ve always made my decisions based on where I felt I could do the most good. In light of the challenges we face, I believe I can … <a href="https://t.co/F0StYoA66n">pic.twitter.com/F0StYoA66n</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1187706669683183616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Gabbard currently sits on the prestigious and powerful House Committee on Financial Services, Committee on Foreign affairs, and Committee on Financial Services.
&#8220;As president, I will immediately begin work to end the new cold war [and] nuclear arms race, end our interventionist foreign policy of trying being the world&#8217;s police, toppling dictators and governments we don&#8217;t like, but instead redirect our precious resources towards serving the needs of the people here at home,&#8221; Gabbard continued. &#8220;I humbly ask for your support for my candidacy for President of the United States.&#8221;
Gabbard is one of 17 major candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for the presidency, and while she has been lagging behind many other candidates in the crowded primary field, her campaign has received renewed attention after a heated exchange with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton seemed to suggest last week that Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; who is being &#8220;groom[ed]&#8221; to run as a third-party candidate. The remarks provoked a fierce rebuke from the Hawaii congresswoman who went after Clinton as the &#8220;queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.&#8221;
Gabbard subsequently challenged the twice-failed presidential candidate to jump into the 2020 race for a third time. Clinton famously lost the 2016 presidential election against President Donald Trump in a stunning upset. Even following her failed bid, she has been an outspoken critic of the president and his administration, and has repeatedly and publicly mulled over running for the Democratic nomination in the upcoming election cycle.
&#8220;Join me in ushering in a new Democratic Party that is of, by, and for the people,&#8221; Gabbard continued on Thursday. &#8220;Together, let&#8217;s bring integrity and the spirit of putting service before self to the White House, so that our White House can truly be a beacon of light, hope and opportunity for all Americans.&#8221;
While the presidential hopeful has met the donor threshold to qualify for the fifth Democratic National Committee (DNC) primary debate, she is still three national polls short of hitting the polling benchmark. However, candidates still have until November 13 to qualify.
As of publication, Gabbard sits at 1.3% support among Democratic primary voters, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html#polls">RealClearPolitics</a> national polling average.

Democratic Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard Visits &#8220;FOX &amp; Friends&#8221;

WATCH: Tulsi Gabbard Will Not Seek Reelection To Congress

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On Wednesday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talked about a recent New York Times article, which revealed that Democratic establishment donors are anxious about the mediocre 2020 primary field. Video and partial transcript below: 
Democrats in 2020 are looking at their field and they are starting to panic. There&#8217;s an entire article in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2020.html">New York Times</a> [Tuesday] titled “Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, Is there anybody else?” Quote:
“When a half-dozen Democratic donors gathered at the Whitby Hotel in Manhattan last week, the dinner began with a discussion of which presidential candidates the contributors liked. But as conversations among influential Democrats often go these days, the meeting quickly evolved into a discussion of who is not in the race &#8212; but could be lured in.”
“Would Hillary Clinton get in, the contributors wondered,” [and] by the way, Hillary wants it. Hillary&#8217;s obviously trying to talk her way into this race, she&#8217;s obviously trying to talk herself into this race. There is just no question, right? Because what does she have to lose at this point? She&#8217;s run twice, she&#8217;s lost twice. In one, she won the popular vote. Her image is what her image is. In the words of a famous woman, what difference at this point would it make?
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If she were to &#8212; why not? Why not jump? And you can see that she obviously wants to do so over the weekend. She was at some sort of event and she was &#8212; somebody from the crowd shouted, “Maybe you should jump in!” She sort of smiled and then ignored the question. She would love to jump in. Why? Because this is an extraordinarily weak field, and Hillary is obviously tempted.
[Hillary is] commenting more and more often. She went after Tulsi Gabbard in the weirdest way while I was on break here. She suggests that Tulsi Gabbard was a Russian agent, which is a pretty incredible allegation to make about a woman who served in the United States military. Last I checked, this isn&#8217;t Kevin Costner in “No Way Out.” In any case, Hillary called Tulsi a Russian asset, which was odd.
<blockquote>CLINTON: I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they&#8217;ve got their eye on somebody who&#8217;s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She&#8217;s a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not, because she&#8217;s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she&#8217;s a Russian asset. I mean, totally. And so they know they can&#8217;t win without a third-party candidate.</blockquote>
Okay, and then Tulsi immediately slapped back because this is exactly what she&#8217;s been waiting for, is that fight. She says, “Great! Thank you Hillary Clinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption.” Boo! boo! It reads directly like the monologue by the witch in “The Princess Bride.” The queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, Boo! boo! 
<blockquote>GABBARD:  &#8230; personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know &#8212; it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It&#8217;s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don&#8217;t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.</blockquote>
Hillary obviously is considering that because the rest of this field is unbelievably weak. Elizabeth Warren is weak – she is weak. [Warren] released her educational plan yesterday. She used to be an advocate for charter schools; her educational plan now includes a complete ban on any federal funding of charter schools, plus a mandate that charter schools are supposed to follow a bevy of regulations. Then she says that charter schools are uncompetitive, which is nonsense – charter schools are the only places where parents can voluntarily enroll or dis-enroll their children in the public school system. Where are you talking about? 
I mean, these candidates are weak. They&#8217;re incredibly, incredibly weak. And if you&#8217;re Hillary, you gotta be thinking, maybe I ought to jump back in.
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SHAPIRO: Are The Democrats Ready For Hillary?

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On Tuesday, Blaze personality and &#8220;Louder With Crowder&#8221; host Steven Crowder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHHQl3ND6bk">went live on his YouTube channel</a> to present evidence he believes shows YouTube and Google censoring 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and removing her videos and YouTube channel from American search results at key times.
Crowder, who came across the evidence as a result of his prior dealings with YouTube &#8212; including enduring a coordinated attack on his ability to monetize his channel, pushed by Vox Media &#8212; claims that, following former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s attacks on Gabbard, Friday, YouTube throttled Gabbard&#8217;s channel, removing it from American search results, even though the channel and videos remained visible in other countries.
Crowder and his team report that they used several different VPNs to conduct searches for Gabbard&#8217;s content, each VPN for a different nation. The team then recorded the results of their experiment. Crowder released the videos on his Twitter feed Tuesday afternoon during his live broadcast.
The first video shows results for Gabbard on Friday, after Clinton claimed that Gabbard was a Russian asset and that Russia was assisting in promoting Gabbard in order to upend the 2020 presidential election with a viable third party candidate.
&#8220;We searched for Tulsi Gabbard, her channel and her videos all showed up first,&#8221; Crowder claimed on his livestream. &#8220;When we switched our VPN to the United Sates &#8230; nothing.&#8221;
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YouTube search results on Sunday, October 20th for &quot;Tulsi Gabbard&quot; first set to US results, then Spain via VPN. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrowderExposesYouTube?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CrowderExposesYouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZZXwFoeEMF">pic.twitter.com/ZZXwFoeEMF</a>
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The second video shows Gabbard&#8217;s results returning to normal on Sunday, well after she had passed out of social media&#8217;s trending topics. The results, Crowder says, &#8220;magically switched back to being identical.&#8221;
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YouTube search results on Sunday, October 20th for &quot;Tulsi Gabbard&quot; first set to US results, then Spain via VPN. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrowderExposesYouTube?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CrowderExposesYouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZZXwFoeEMF">pic.twitter.com/ZZXwFoeEMF</a>
&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1186729969784803328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Crowder called the results &#8220;chilling,&#8221; and suggested that the searchers were proof that YouTube&#8217;s algorithm can be altered and that YouTube can effectively control the flow of information to its users.
The late-night Internet host then went on to say that he believes, based on his own experience working with YouTube in the wake of his channel&#8217;s demonitziation, that it is a YouTube employee (or employees) &#8212; a real person or persons &#8212; &#8220;flipping the switch&#8221; on Gabbard&#8217;s channel and not simply a result of a flaw in YouTube&#8217;s master algorithm or location-based search result tailoring.
Months ago, when Crowder was demonitized by YouTube, following a protracted battle with a far-left journalist, the team at &#8220;Louder with Crowder&#8221; noticed that the organic reach of their videos was declining, resulting in a dearth of new users, despite what Crowder claims were record views: &#8220;Our views were better than ever, so was our retention &#8230; all the most valued metrics according to YouTube.&#8221;
Crowder says his team then began to dig into reasons for the decline in his organic reach, eventually discovering what Crowder terms &#8220;peculiarities&#8221; and &#8220;tomfoolery&#8221; in YouTube&#8217;s search function. Trying to find one of his own &#8220;Change My Mind&#8221; videos, Crowder says he ran a YouTube search using the basic search term, &#8220;Steven Crowder change my mind.&#8221; When nothing showed up, he and his team ran similar searches, he says, and alerted viewers, who reported the &#8220;exact same result.&#8221;
Other viewers claimed Crowder was &#8220;doctoring&#8221; photos of his own search results, because they had no trouble with their search function.
The issue, Crowder says he and his team discovered, only applied to American viewers. Using alternate VPNs, the team discovered that &#8220;blacklisting on this channel was occurring in the United States exclusively.&#8221; Crowder claims that he was sent proof of this phenomenon from &#8220;all across the world.&#8221;
When Crowder did an impromptu video on the issue &#8212; and asked his audience to consider whether the same phenomenon could happen to others, including political candidates who ran afoul of YouTube and its parent company, Google &#8212; he says he received a phone call from someone at YouTube who said they could make changes that would &#8220;ameliorate the situation.&#8221;
Crowder now charges that his conversation with a YouTube &#8220;higher up&#8221; demonstrates that YouTube employees can manually control the algorithm, leaving situations like Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s the fault of subjective censorship from within Google&#8217;s ranks.
Crowder says he will continue to gather evidence of YouTube&#8217;s alleged censorship and has encouraged his audience to do the same.
Gabbard, meanwhile, is already embroiled in a lawsuit against Google, YouTube, and parent company, Alphabet, alleging similar censorhip on Google&#8217;s AdSense platform, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html">according to the New York Times</a>. Gabbard&#8217;s litigation centers around claims that Google throttled Gabbard&#8217;s AdSense ads when she was trending on Twitter during the first Democratic debate, even though she and her team had purchased ads on key search terms related to her campaign.
You can watch Crowder&#8217;s full report here:
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REPORT: Steven Crowder Claims YouTube Is Selectively Censoring Tulsi Gabbard

Steven Crowder

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As other Democrats distance themselves from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s paranoid antics of seeing a Russian under every stone, the die-hard Hillary devotees of “The View” sided with her completely over the latest feud with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), referring to the 2020 presidential candidate as a “useful idiot.”
“She told us about Russia, she told us about the probable interference,” said co-host Sunny Hostin. “She was secretary of state. She has deep world knowledge of world issues. I thought, where’s the lie? I’ve often said that Tulsi is sort of the Trojan horse in this. She’s polling at only 1.2 percent, yet she’s still in the race. You have her <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9AoMU7dpBMfN5_2ySDen0xBrxpw">being touted</a> by people like Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson.”
Co-host Joy Behar then added that Gabbard has not explicitly denied Hillary’s claims that she is a Russian asset, asserting that she is a “useful idiot.”
“She hasn’t denied it,” Behar said. “She hasn’t said anything in her tweets. ‘How dare you? It’s outrageous. Of course, I’m not.’ She didn’t say that. She’s just going after Hillary. I just think that she could be a useful idiot the way Trump is a useful idiot to the Russians,” the liberal co-host proclaimed. “That they see something. They say, ‘Oh look, a useful idiot. Let’s play this.’”
Conservative co-host Abby Huntsman, however, believed that Hillary Clinton had a personal vendetta over the 2016 election.  “It surprised me Hillary Clinton was not smarter and more tactful in how she talked about it,” said Huntsman.
The feud between Gabbard and Hillary erupted into a social media firestorm last Friday when the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0MbrzZXRAzII9O2Hc9vzTLtrkXg">former first lady said</a> that Russia is grooming Gabbard for a third-party run during an appearance on the podcast “Campaign HQ.”
“I think they have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She is the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton said. “They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”
“That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset — I mean, totally,” she continued. “They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.”
Gabbard immediately took to Twitter to blast Clinton as “the queen of warmongers.”
“Great! Thank you [Hillary Clinton],” Gabbard said. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.”
“From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why,” she continued. “Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.”

‘The View’ Backs Hillary’s Tulsi Gabbard Smear: She’s A ‘Useful Idiot’

On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talked about Tulsi Gabbard’s absolutely brutal takedown of Hillary Clinton, after the failed 2016 presidential candidate implied that Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” Video and partial transcript below:
So you have Hillary Clinton, a crook, a twice-failed presidential candidate, someone whose nearest contribution to the American public was lying about being under Bosnian sniper fire. And then you have Tulsi Gabbard, who I think is extreme and Leftist – and I would never even consider voting for her – but she just returned from serving our country in uniform. She is actually a dedicated public servant, and she&#8217;s far more reasonable on most issues than her fellow Democrats.
Those are the two people. And Hillary Clinton, crooked crone &#8212; never did anything for this country &#8212; is accusing Tulsi Gabbard, [who] actually put on a uniform, of being a Russian asset, of being a traitor, of being somebody who sold out her country.
Here&#8217;s Tulsi&#8217;s response on Twitter:
<blockquote>GABBARD: Great, thank you. Hillary Clinton, you the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know – it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It&#8217;s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don&#8217;t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.</blockquote>
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Great! Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a &#8230;
— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289626409406464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8230; Oh My goodness gracious, I don&#8217;t care what&#8217;s going on in the Middle East, nothing could possibly be [more] fiery, cruel, or devastating than that. Very smart for Tulsi Gabbard, [she’s] going to finally try to launch her candidacy into the top tier by saying that she is the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in the way that Bernie Sanders was the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in 2016. 
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It might work. Tulsi had a very good performance at that last debate, and so as the front runner, Joe Biden, falls apart, and as Hillary Clinton goes after her, it really could help her out. Hillary Clinton seriously overestimates her significance in the Democratic Party. Or rather, I&#8217;ll put it a different way, she seriously underestimates how furious the Democrats are at her, not for her corruption, not for her decades and decades of lies and misdeeds &#8212; for losing. She lost to Donald Trump, she didn&#8217;t get the job done, and Democrats are really hard on their losing candidates. 
When was the last time we heard from Michael Dukakis? Do you know many of the listeners to this podcast don&#8217;t even know who Michael Dukakis is? Dukakis lost the election to George Bush. How about Walter Mondale. Do we hear a lot from Walter Mondale? No. George McGovern? Not so much. Democrats are pretty hard on their losers, and Hillary Clinton thinks that she&#8217;s somehow still an important voice in the Democratic Party.
She isn&#8217;t really. A lot of people don&#8217;t like her. She went on that speaking tour with Bill Clinton. So she actually had a former president with her. They couldn&#8217;t sell tickets. The tickets were dropping from $300 a ticket to $6 or $9 a ticket. They ended up canceling most of the tour. 
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KNOWLES: Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Hillary Clinton For Implying She’s A ‘Russian Asset’

Michael Knowles

President Donald Trump doubled down on his defense of Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) on Monday after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seemed to suggest that the Democratic presidential candidate is an asset that the Russians are &#8220;grooming&#8221; in preparation of the 2020 election.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard of her, she&#8217;s the one accusing everybody of being a Russian agent,&#8221; Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting. &#8220;Anybody that is opposed to her is a Russian agent &#8212; that&#8217;s a scam that was pretty much put down.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know Tulsi, but she&#8217;s not a Russian agent,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know Jill Stein. I know she likes the environment. I don’t think she likes Russians. If she does like them, I know she&#8217;s not an asset &#8212; [Clinton] called her an asset of Russia. These people are sick. There&#8217;s something wrong with them.&#8221;
While speaking with President Barack Obama&#8217;s former campaign manager, David Plouffe, during an appearance on his podcast &#8220;Campaign HQ,&#8221; Clinton contended that the Russians &#8220;have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she&#8217;s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she&#8217;s a Russian asset, I mean, totally,&#8221; she told Plouffe. &#8220;They know they can&#8217;t win without a third-party candidate. So I don&#8217;t know who it&#8217;s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.&#8221;
Although Clinton initially refrained from revealing to whom she was talking about, her spokesman Nick Merrill later confirmed that it was, in fact, Gabbard. When asked if Clinton was referring to Gabbard, Merrill replied, &#8220;if the nesting doll fits.&#8221;
Gabbard swiftly fired back at the twice failed presidential candidate, calling her the &#8220;queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.&#8221; She subsequently accused Clinton of launching a &#8220;concerted campaign&#8221; to smear the Hawaii congresswoman&#8217;s reputation and further challenged her to jump into the 2020 race for a third time.
&#8220;So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard &#8216;a Russian favorite,&#8217; and Jill Stein &#8216;a Russian asset,'&#8221; Trump tweeted on Saturday. &#8220;As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!). Hillary&#8217;s gone Crazy!&#8221;
The president has been embroiled in Democrat-led allegations of having close ties to the Russian Kremlin since before he even took office. Special counsel Robert Mueller kicked off a years-long investigation that ultimately found that Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign did not conspire or coordinate with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
&#8220;I think that Tulsi Gabbard probably got helped quite a bit by this there. I think we were helped because it shows for two and a half years, we end up winning,&#8221; Trump said on Monday. &#8220;I had to go through two and a half years &#8212; if she would have done this earlier people would have realized what a scam it is. Everybody is a Russian, or a Russian agent, or a Russian asset.&#8221;

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On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
During the segment, which touched on various topics, Tapper asked Buttigieg about the ongoing feud between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and fellow Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI).
On Wednesday, Clinton appeared on David Plouffe’s “Campaign HQ” podcast, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">seemed to claim</a> that Gabbard was a “Russian asset.”
Here are Clinton’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">exact words</a>:
<blockquote>I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary, and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not, because she’s also a Russian asset.</blockquote>
A Clinton spokesperson later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-gabbard-smacks-clinton-she-knows-she-cant-manipulate-me-if-im-elected-president">confirmed</a> that the former secretary of state was indeed speaking about Gabbard, telling CNN, &#8220;If the nesting doll fits.&#8221;
Buttigieg pivoted away from actually condemning Clinton when pressed by Tapper:
<blockquote>TAPPER: We&#8217;re running out of time, so I do want to flip to a different topic, which is the last Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, appeared to suggest that one of your fellow campaign nominees or campaign hopefuls, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, is a Russian asset.
[Tapper then played the clip of Clinton on David Plouffe&#8217;s podcast.]
TAPPER: So, Clinton&#8217;s spokesman confirmed that she was talking about Tulsi Gabbard there. Gabbard fired back, calling Secretary Clinton the “queen of warmongers,” “embodiment of corruption.” It went on from there. I know you don&#8217;t want to get in the middle of these two politicians fighting. But is it helpful to have the 2016 nominee suggesting that a congresswoman is a Russian asset?
BUTTIGIEG: I&#8217;d prefer to have the conversation be about policy, about what we&#8217;re going to do, and about how American lives are going to be different. When it comes to any of my Democratic competitors, that&#8217;s my focus, making sure that we make very clear the differences – and there are very real differences among us – and making it clear to voters what their choices are. That&#8217;s where I&#8217;d like to focus to be.
TAPPER: Right. But do you think Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset?
BUTTIGIEG: I don&#8217;t know what the basis is for that.
TAPPER: Well, I don&#8217;t either.
BUTTIGIEG: I consider her to be a competitor, somebody who I respect her service. I also have very different views than she does, especially on foreign policy. And I would prefer to have that argument in terms of policy, which is what we do with debates and what we&#8217;re doing as we go forward.
TAPPER: So when Donald Trump smears people, Democrats all stand up and say, you&#8217;re smearing someone. Stop it. Why don&#8217;t Democrats do that, to say that about Tulsi Gabbard? It seems like an obvious smear. I don&#8217;t see any evidence she&#8217;s a Russian asset. It seems like a wild accusation.
BUTTIGIEG: Yes, I think statements like that ought to be backed by evidence.</blockquote>
Buttigieg then swiveled to “corruption,” the “mixing of domestic politics and foreign affairs,” and the White House.
After the Democratic candidate concluded, even Tapper highlighted the non-answer. “An agile pivot from Mayor Pete Buttigieg,” Tapper stated.
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Following the brouhaha between Clinton and Gabbard, few Democratic presidential candidates have spoken out in support of Gabbard.
Andrew Yang tweeted: “Tulsi Gabbard deserves much more respect and thanks than this. She literally just got back from serving our country abroad.”
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Tulsi Gabbard deserves much more respect and thanks than this. She literally just got back from serving our country abroad.
— Andrew Yang (@AndrewYang) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1185371843957526528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
When asked on Saturday about the internecine fight, Beto O’Rourke said: “Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person, obviously has served this country, continues to serve this country in uniform, in Congress, as a candidate for presidency. So, I think those facts speak for themselves.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BetoORourke</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TulsiGabbard</a>: &#8220;Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person. Obviously has served this country, continues to serve this country in uniform, in Congress, as a candidate for presidency so I think those facts speak for themselves.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/dKnOVExx3H">pic.twitter.com/dKnOVExx3H</a>
— The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1185667486139764736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Marianne Williamson also <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1185407428248006657">tweeted</a> her support, calling the claim against Gabbard “character assassination.”
As of publication, Gabbard stands at 1.2% in the polls according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> national average of polling, while Yang, O’Rourke, and Williamson stand at 2.2%, 2.6%, and 0.6%, respectively.

Pete Buttigieg.

WATCH: Buttigieg Pivots When Asked About Hillary Clinton’s ‘Russian Asset’ Remark

Pete Buttigieg

Former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke (D-TX) stated on Sunday that while he is sure that his Democratic primary opponent Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is not a being groomed by the Russians as previously suggested, be still believes that President Donald Trump is a &#8220;Russian asset.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the focus has to be on Donald Trump,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke told MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin. &#8220;If we are talking about the country of Russia, there is a Russian asset in the White House right now. We know – and we all saw it in broad daylight, candidate Trump inviting [Russian President] Vladimir Putin to invade and be involved in our elections, which he did. And then we saw President Trump, after he had been sworn in on that stage in Helsinki, Finland, defending Vladimir Putin, instead of our intelligence community.&#8221;
&#8220;We learned after the Robert Mueller report [from the special counsel], his mendacity, his lies, his pressure on other witnesses to lie on his behalf all for this country, and, obviously, the list goes on,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, I think that’s where we as Democrats, really we as Americans, need to be focused right now. Holding that president accountable; making sure that the truth comes out; that we follow the facts as high as they go, as far as they lead, and at the end of the day that there be justice, rule of law, and a continuation of this democracy and this great country. All of that is on the line.&#8221;
O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s remarks come less than a week after twice failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sat down with President Barack Obama’s former campaign manager, David Plouffe, during an appearance on his podcast &#8220;Campaign HQ.&#8221; During the interview, Clinton seemed to suggest that Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; who is being groomed to run as a third-party candidate.
Clinton received widespread blowback for promulgating a conspiracy theory without any evidence to back up her contention.
&#8220;Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke responded on Saturday when questioned about Clinton&#8217;s claim. &#8220;Obviously has served this country and continues to serve this country in uniform in Congress as a candidate for the presidency, and so I think those facts speak for themselves.&#8221;
The Texas congressman reiterated his defense of Gabbard and stated that he stood by his previous comments. Mohyeldin, however, pressed O&#8217;Rourke further on whether he believes Clinton made a mistake going after a presidential candidate in her own party since Democrats are so often critical of Republicans for excusing the same behavior.
&#8220;Again, I think I could play into this false media narrative that seeks to pit Democrats against one another over a spurious allegation, or we can focus on the fact that there is a Russian asset in the White House right now doing the bidding of a foreign power against the interests of America,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke replied. &#8220;I think thats the focus for this country and that is where I remain focused as a candidate.&#8221;

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Beto Denies Tulsi Is A Russian Asset, But Still Maintains That Donald Trump Is One

Beto O'Rourke

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has fired back at Hillary Clinton, saying she has &#8220;blood on her hands&#8221; because the former Secretary of State backed U.S. intervention in Iraq.
&#8220;Thousands of my brothers and sisters in uniform were killed in Iraq, a war that she championed,&#8221; said Gabbard, who served in a medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009.
&#8220;Their blood is on her hands. That&#8217;s why she&#8217;s smearing my character and trying to undermine my campaign,&#8221; Gabbard said on Fox News.
Gabbard (D-HI), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has been battling Clinton since the 2016 loser claimed Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; being groomed to ensure that President Donald Trump is re-elected
&#8220;They are also going to do third party again,&#8221; Clinton said &#8220;Campaign HQ,&#8221; a podcast hosted by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008. &#8220;I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate,&#8221; Clinton said.
Plouffe asked Clinton about past third-party candidates like Jill Stein of the Green Party, who election analysts say helped Trump win a few key states. Clinton returned to the mysterious candidate.
&#8220;She is a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and ways of supporting her so far. That&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she is also a Russian asset,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;They know they can&#8217;t win without a third-party candidate, and so I do not know who it is going to be but I can guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states [where] they most need it.&#8221;
So far, only two of Gabbard&#8217;s fellow 2020 candidates have come to her defense.
&#8220;Tulsi Gabbard deserves much more respect and thanks than this. She literally just got back from serving our country abroad,&#8221; Andrew Yang wrote on Twitter. Author Marianne Williamson also wrote, &#8220;The Democratic establishment has got to stop smearing women it finds inconvenient!&#8221;
&#8220;The character assassination of women who don’t toe the party line will backfire,&#8221; she continued, telling Gabbard, &#8220;You deserve respect and you have mine.&#8221;
Gabbard has repeatedly targeted Clinton, saying she is disrespecting veterans.
&#8220;This is about Hillary Clinton sending a very strong message saying that, because I am and have long been calling for an end to our country’s foreign policy from regime change to regime change next ongoing in Syria and calling for an end to this new Cold War and nuclear arms race, that I’m a Russian asset and a traitor to the nation I love. Not only do they say that about me, they are basically sending this message out to every veteran in this country, every service member, every American, everyone watching at home fighting for peace and who was calling for an end to these regime change wars, and they are saying you are also a Russian asset, you’re also a traitor to this country. That’s really what’s happening here,&#8221; Gabbard said.
Gabbard also fired back at Clinton on Twitter. &#8220;Thank you @HillaryClinton,” she posted on Friday. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.
&#8220;From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a &#8230; concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and &#8230; powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.&#8221;

Feud Intensifies As Tulsi Gabbard Says Hillary Clinton Has &#8216;Blood On Her Hands&#8217;

President Donald Trump took to Twitter Saturday night to defend Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) against Hillary Clinton&#8217;s claims that Gabbard is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; designed to upend the 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;So now Crooked Hillary is at it again!&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard &#8216;a Russian favorite,&#8217; and Jill Stein &#8216;a Russian asset.&#8217; As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!). Hillary’s gone Crazy!&#8221;
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So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard “a Russian favorite,” and Jill Stein “a Russian asset.” As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!). Hillary’s gone Crazy!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185747939257397248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It&#8217;s no surprise Trump weighed in on the ongoing tiff between the Hawaii Congresswoman and the former Democratic presidential nominee after spending months embroiled in controversy over his own alleged ties to the Kremlin. Clinton, after all, made it known that she suspected Russia and its leader, Vladimir Putin, had a hand in her 2016 loss to Trump just days after the results of the Presidential election became final.
Trump then spent the first two years of his tenure under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, only to be cleared of suspicion, along with his 2016 presidential campaign, by Mueller&#8217;s report, released earlier this year. Democrats who were once convinced that Trump would face impeachment over his campaign&#8217;s ties to Russian officials have now moved on to a separate controversy involving a supposed quid-pro-quo with Ukrainian officials over information about Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son.
Trump also ran to the rescue of former Green Party candidate Jill Stein, whose presence in the 2016 presidential election likely cost Clinton votes.
Late last week, Clinton told a podcast, hosted by President Obama&#8217;s former top aide, David Plouffe, that she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;making any predictions [about the 2020 Democratic nomination], but [Russians] have got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.&#8221;
Clinton was referring specifically to Gabbard, she acknowleged later, doubling down. &#8220;She&#8217;s the favorite of the Russians.&#8221; Clinton continued, &#8220;They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.&#8221;
Gabbard has fired back several times since then, calling Clinton a  &#8220;queen of warmongers&#8221; and an &#8220;embodiment of corruption.&#8221; On Saturday, Gabbard told reporters, &#8220;This smear campaign is coming from people like Hillary Clinton and her proxies, the foreign policy establishment, the military industrial complex, who obviously feel threatened by my message and by my campaign because they know that they can&#8217;t control me,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-democrat-candidates-hillary-clinton">according to Fox News</a>.
Trump is one of only a handful of high-profile politicos to rush to Gabbard&#8217;s defense. Gabbard&#8217;s fellow contenders for the 2020 Democratic nomination have been largely silent. Among her competitors, only Andrew Yang, Marianne Williamson, and Beto O&#8217;Rourke have said anything.
<a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1185371843957526528">Yang tweeted that Gabbard</a> &#8220;deserved much more respect and thanks.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1185407428248006657">Williamson added,</a> &#8220;The Democratic establishment has got to stop smearing women it finds inconvenient!&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke told reporters Saturday, &#8220;Tulsi is not being groomed by anyone. She is her own person. Obviously has served this country, continues to serve this country in uniform, in Congress, as a candidate for presidency so I think those facts speak for themselves.&#8221;
Clinton hasn&#8217;t spoken further on her smear, instead pulling out of a planned event where she would have shared the stage with Gabbard. Gabbard, on the other hand, has only benefitted from her spat with the 2016 Democratic nominee.
<a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/19/tulsi-gabbard-elevated-iowa-clinton-spat/40346625/">The Detroit News reports</a> that Gabbard has skyrocketed to fame in Iowa, where voters can now identify her by name and know details of her background.

Trump Defends Tulsi, Takes On Clinton Over Russian Conspiracy Theories

On Friday evening, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) appeared on <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-russians-are-grooming-a-2020-democratic-candidate/">CBS News</a> and responded to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seeming to imply that she was a &#8220;Russian asset.&#8221;
<blockquote>CBS: What did you make of Secretary Clinton&#8217;s comments this week?
GABBARD: Let&#8217;s be clear about what this is about &#8230; that if anyone stands up and speaks out to end the regime change war policies our country has had for so long, the likes of which we&#8217;ve seen waged in Iraq, Libya, and ongoing in Syria, we will be labeled as foreign agents, we will be labeled as traitors to our country. So, really what this is, this is a message to every veteran in this country who has put their life on the line to serve our country, to every single American who believes strongly that we must end this long-standing foreign policy of being the world&#8217;s police and waging these regime change wars – which is really the legacy of Hillary Clinton – then we are traitors to the nation that we love. This is despicable on so many levels.</blockquote>
Gabbard was asked what she meant by the term &#8220;regime change wars.&#8221;
The congresswoman replied, claiming that the &#8220;long-held foreign policy of the United States, of which Hillary Clinton was a champion &#8230; for a very long time, of going around the world, acting as the world&#8217;s police, overthrowing and toppling dictators that we don&#8217;t like&#8221; is what she means by &#8220;regime change wars.&#8221;
Gabbard then claimed that the reason Clinton &#8220;and her minions&#8221; are attempting to &#8220;smear&#8221; her is because she opposes such foreign policy.
It was then brought up that Clinton never used Gabbard’s name in her remarks, but the congresswoman was having none of it. &#8220;Let’s not mess around here and pretend that it wasn&#8217;t something that it was,&#8221; Gabbard stated incredulously.
Despite attempts by the anchor to pivot the conversation, Gabbard stayed on message for the rest of the segment, noting that she is &#8220;running as a Democrat to take our party back, away from the control of people like Hillary Clinton and the warmongering and corrupt powerful establishment, and return our party into the hands of the people.&#8221;
&#8220;[Clinton is] doing this is because she knows that she can&#8217;t control me,&#8221; Gabbard concluded. &#8220;She knows that she&#8217;s not going to be able to manipulate me if I&#8217;m elected president, to be able to continue these warmongering policies that she has championed throughout her career.&#8221;
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The feud between Gabbard and Clinton blew up on Wednesday, when the former secretary of state appeared to claim that the Russians were &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers">grooming</a>&#8221; Gabbard during an appearance on David Plouffe’s &#8220;Campaign HQ&#8221; podcast.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary, and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,&#8221; Clinton said.
&#8220;She&#8217;s a favorite of the Russians,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far, and that&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not, because she’s also a Russian asset.”
Speaking with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard-a-russian-asset-being-groomed-for-third-party-run">CNN</a>, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill confirmed that the former secretary of state was indeed referring to Gabbard. &#8220;If the nesting doll fits,&#8221; Merrill reportedly stated.
Gabbard responded on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers">Twitter</a> on Friday, calling Clinton the &#8220;queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.&#8221;

WATCH: Gabbard Smacks Clinton: She Knows She Can’t ‘Manipulate Me If I’m Elected President’

And then one blinked.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has gone head to head with Hillary Clinton for nearly a week. Clinton, the 2016 loser, claims Gabbard, a U.S. military veteran, is a &#8220;Russian asset&#8221; being groomed to ensure that President Donald Trump is re-elected. Gabbard has fired back, saying Hillary is the &#8220;queen of warmongers&#8221; and daring her to enter the 2020 race.
Now, Clinton has pulled out of an event in Washington, D.C., in which Gabbard was also set to appear. Clinton has backed out of a Friday appearance at Fortune magazine&#8217;s Most Powerful Women Summit, claiming she had a scheduling conflict, <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/hillary-clinton-fortune-summit-kirstjen-nielsen.html">S</a><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/hillary-clinton-fortune-summit-kirstjen-nielsen.html">late.com</a> reported.
Clinton’s sudden exit came just hours after she said Gabbard was a &#8220;favorite of the Russians.&#8221;
The two-time loser sat down with David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008, on his &#8220;Campaign HQ&#8221; podcast on Friday. On the show, she said Gabbard is currently being prepped Russia to run as a third-party candidate in 2020 in order to help Trump win.
&#8220;They are also going to do third party again,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third party candidate,&#8221; Clinton said, reportedly referring to Gabbard.
Plouffe asked Clinton about past third-party candidates like Jill Stein of the Green Party, who election analysts say helped Trump win a couple key states. Clinton returned to the mysterious candidate.
&#8220;She is a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and ways of supporting her so far. That&#8217;s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she is also a Russian asset,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8220;They know they can&#8217;t win without a third-party candidate, and so I do not know who it is going to be but I can guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most need it.&#8221;
The New York Times is also claiming Gabbard is a Russian asset.
&#8220;She is injecting a bit of chaos into her own party’s primary race, threatening to boycott that debate to protest what she sees as a &#8216;rigging&#8217; of the 2020 election. That’s left some Democrats wondering what, exactly, she is up to in the race, while others worry about supportive signs from online bot activity and the Russian news media,&#8221; The Times wrote Oct. 12.
For her part, Gabbard said it&#8217;s all fantasy.
&#8220;The New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war [in Syria]. &#8230; Just two days ago, The New York Times put out an article saying that I’m a Russian asset and an Assad apologist, and all these different smears,&#8221; she said Tuesday in the Democratic debate.
Gabbard also fired back at Clinton on Twitter. &#8220;Thank you @HillaryClinton,” she posted on Friday. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.
&#8220;From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a &#8230; concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and &#8230; powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.&#8221;
Then Gabbard delivered a direct challenge to Clinton. &#8220;It’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.&#8221;
&#8220;Hillary Clinton is labeling me as a foreign agent and a traitor, smearing and undermining my campaign, both directly herself and indirectly through her proxies,&#8221; Gabbard said in a Friday night interview with <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-suggests-russians-are-grooming-a-2020-democratic-candidate/">CBS News</a>.
&#8220;The reason why she’s doing this is because she knows that she can’t control me. She knows that she’s not going to be able to manipulate me if I’m elected president to be able to continue these warmongering policies that she has championed,&#8221; Gabbard said.

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