Tulsi Gabbard, Past and Present

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Dr. Jill in Ukraine, Angelina in Poland.
I wonder if we will send Melania Trump to Eastern Europe during all this high-profile American travel. She's a compelling success story and speaks a number of the local languages so I suppose she's a shoo-in to be asked to go.

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Tulsi Gabbard, Past and Present

Tulsi Gabbard has left the Democrat Party. I have no idea why but integrity, among politicians, generally can be ruled out as a motive for any action.  

She was attacked by FOX's token liberal over her trip to see Assad a few years ago. Here is a look back into that past.

Hillary Clinton floated a conspiracy theory that the Russians were "grooming" Tulsi Gabbard to be a third-party candidate in 2020, while claiming 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein is "also" a Russian asset. (In 2016, Stein won enough votes in the key states of Wisconsin and Michigan to keep those states blue, had she been able to magically gift them to Hillary. In other words, it’s a pretty fair statement that, all other things being equal, a third-party candidate, Jill Stein, may very well have cost Hillary Clinton the 2016 election. Shades of Perot.)

Do you notice a preoccupation with Russians and Evil here? And when did the Left start getting afraid of the Russians anyway? I thought the Republicans were the conspiracy theorists.

During the Democratic debate, Gabbard blasted debate co-sponsors CNN and the New York Times for "smearing" her along similar lines. CNN commentator Bakari Sellers called her a "puppet" for the Russian government and the Times reported on her “frequent” mentions in Russian state news media.
"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,” Gabbard said. "This morning, a CNN commentator said on national television that I'm an asset of Russia — completely despicable."

Then she tweeted this.
"Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. 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’s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly."

And, true to journalistic ethics, this from a CNBC panel: “One thing that was interesting about Tulsi Gabbard’s response, I mean she went after Hillary Clinton, she was strong, she said she wasn’t gonna run as a third party candidate — she never denied being a Russian asset,” said a panelist MSNBC identifies as Kimberly Atkins. “That was the one aspect that was missing from her response, which, you know, you would think that would be within the first line or two. It was not there.”

So it was probably silly to bring up the idea of "integrity" anyway.