Look, one 2016 candidate being prone to wild and baseless accusations is enough. Appearing on Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s podcast, Hillary Clinton suggested that 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein was a “Russian asset,” that Republicans and Russians were promoting the Green Party, and insinuated that Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was some sort of tool of the Russian government.
“They’ve got their eye on someone who’s currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said on the podcast. “She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”
This is bonkers. You don’t have to look at Tulsi Gabbard’s record on foreign policy for long to find areas for fair criticism, perhaps most infamously her meeting with Bashar al-Assad at the height of the Syrian Civil War, and exhibiting a strange reluctance to criticize the dictator upon her return to the United States. She’s still not willing to say she thinks Assad is a war criminal.
Gabbard’s foreign policy views may well be wrongheaded ones. But she’s direct and honest about them, and it’s highly unlikely that she’s been bribed, brainwashed or coerced into these positions.
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See Also:
(1) Does Everyone Believe Hillary Is Crazy Now?
(2) No Surprise: Hillary Drops Out of a Speaking Engagement For a Really Dumb Reason
(3) Gabbard: Despite What Hillary Says, I’m Not Running Third Party
(4) Tulsi: Hillary Called Me a ‘Russian Asset’ Because ‘I Stand Against Everything She Represents’
(5) WATCH: Van Jones Completely Torches Hillary Clinton Over Calling Tulsi Gabbard a ‘Russian Asset’
