{"id":5350,"date":"2020-01-23T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2020-01-24T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T11:12:36","slug":"cat-fight-tulsi-vs-clinton-opening-round-sees-a-lawsuit-filed-against-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=5350","title":{"rendered":"CAT FIGHT: Tulsi vs. Hillary Opening Round Sees Slam-Dunk Lawsuit Filed Against Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tulsi Gabbard Sues Hillary Clinton Over &#8216;Russian Asset&#8217; Remark<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)\u00a0<strong>has filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, accusing the former Secretary of State of defamation<\/strong>\u00a0for remarks characterizing the Democratic presidential candidate as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/hillary-clinton-spews-conspiracy-theory-about-tulsi-gabbard-being-groomed-hand-trump-2020\">a Russian asset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=oa2iBS2t\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=oa2iBS2t\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=MC0MnKw4 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=MC0MnKw4 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=MC0MnKw4 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=MC0MnKw4 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=MC0MnKw4 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png?itok=oa2iBS2t 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/hillary%20tulsi1_0.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0536392c-b574-42e1-b058-c0cad7312cea\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Gabbard&#8217;s attorneys allege that Clinton &#8220;smeared&#8221; Gabbard&#8217;s &#8220;political and personal reputation,&#8221; according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/479320-gabbard-suing-clinton-for-defamation-over-russian-asset-comments\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi Gabbard is suing Hillary Clinton and the first page of the filing is WILD AF <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DXHLPfy016\">pic.twitter.com\/DXHLPfy016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alec Sears (@alec_sears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alec_sears\/status\/1219990424548454400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tulsi Gabbard is a loyal American civil servant who has also dedicated her life to protecting the safety of all Americans,&#8221; said Gabbard&#8217;s attorney Brian Dunne in a statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--cta js-clickToOpenTarget\" lang=\"en\" data-click-to-open-target=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alec_sears\/status\/1219990424548454400\" data-iframe-title=\"Twitter Tweet\" data-scribe=\"page:tweet\" data-twitter-event-id=\"1\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweetContainer\">\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"fitvid819634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNLJ3i2oRyg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Rep. Gabbard\u2019s presidential campaign continues to gain momentum, but she has seen her political and personal reputation smeared and her candidacy intentionally damaged by Clinton\u2019s malicious and demonstrably false remarks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a podcast released in October,\u00a0<strong>Clinton said she thought Republicans were &#8220;grooming&#8221; a Democratic presidential candidate<\/strong>\u00a0for a third-party bid. She also described the candidate as a favorite of the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton did not name the candidate but it was clear she was speaking about Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re also going to do third party. I&#8217;m not making any predictions, but I think they&#8217;ve got their eye on somebody who&#8217;s\u00a0currently in the Democratic primary and are\u00a0<strong>grooming her to be the third-party candidate<\/strong>,&#8221; Clinton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>She&#8217;s the favorite of the Russians, they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far<\/strong>, 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. They know they can&#8217;t win without a third party candidate,&#8221; Clinton said. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/479320-gabbard-suing-clinton-for-defamation-over-russian-asset-comments\"><em>The Hill<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Read the filing below:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" title=\"Gabbard Et Al v Clinton Nysdce-20-00558 0001.0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/443884257\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;show_recommendations=false&amp;access_key=key-lbkbnqReTE9owVi1YfO6\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-auto-height=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tulsi-gabbard-sues-hillary-clinton-over-russian-asset-remark\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/tulsi-gabbard-sues-hillary-clinton-over-russian-asset-remark<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard Sues Hillary Clinton Over &#8216;Russian Asset&#8217; Remark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}