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(NEW YORK) — Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Hillary Clinton on Wednesday over an interview in which Clinton looked to name Gabbard “the current of the Russians.”
Gabbard, a Hawaii congresswoman, acknowledged in her lawsuit filed in federal court in Contemporary york that Clinton’s feedback in a podcast closing yr in which she suggested that Gabbard was being groomed by Russia to be a third-celebration candidate had been in step with both her occupy creativeness or “extremely dubious conspiracy theories” that any practical particular person would know to be “inherently and objectively unreliable.”
Eventually of the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate, Gabbard criticized a TV commentator she acknowledged had known as her “an asset of Russia.”
With out naming Gabbard, Clinton looked to have faith the characterization in some unspecified time in the future of a podcast look days later on “Marketing and marketing campaign HQ with David Plouffe.” Plouffe was marketing campaign supervisor for President Barack Obama in 2008 and served as served as a senior adviser to the president.
“She’s the current of the Russians,” Clinton told Plouffe, who was marketing campaign supervisor for future President Barack Obama in 2008, regarding a particular person she had earlier identified as a lady “who’s currently within the Democratic predominant. … They dangle got a bunch of websites and bots and diverse techniques of supporting her so a ways.”
The lawsuit prices that Clinton “reserves a favorable hatred and animosity for Tulsi” because Gabbard suggested Sen. Bernie Sanders over Clinton within the 2016 Democratic predominant marketing campaign and by no manner suggested Clinton.
Requested to commentary on the lawsuit, Clinton spokesman Prick Merrill acknowledged, “That’s ridiculous.”
Gabbard, whose pork up amongst Democratic predominant voters has averaged spherical 1% in polls, has acknowledged she will not be going to flee for president as a third-celebration candidate.
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