Posted on 01/22/2020 10:02:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Washington (CNN) -- Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, alleging the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee "lied" about the Hawaii congresswoman's ties to Russia during a 2019 interview.
The lawsuit stems from an October 2019 interview in which Clinton said that a Democrat running in the presidential primary was being groomed to run as a third-party candidate and was a favorite of the Russians. "I'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," Clinton said, speaking on a podcast with former Obama adviser David Plouffe. "She's the favorite of the Russians."
Clinton, in the same interview, suggested that person she was talking about was a "Russian asset," while not naming Gabbard.
When CNN asked Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill whether the former secretary of state was referring to Gabbard in the interview, Merrill said, "If the nesting doll fits" --- a reference to Russian nesting dolls.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court in the Southern District of New York, says Gabbard has suffered damages that are "estimated to exceed $50 million." She is seeking unspecified compensation and the prevention of a further spread of the comments. Clinton spokesman Merrill responded to the lawsuit by calling it "ridiculous."
The lawsuit stands little chance of success, but it offers Gabbard much-needed publicity for her campaign ahead of the Iowa caucuses next month.
"Under settled Supreme Court precedent, a defamation claim by a public figure like Tulsi Gabbard requires proof on her part that the speaker not only said something that was false, but did so 'with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not...
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Kabuki theater.
Tulsi has a future planned for her in the Dem party.
Just for the record, this ain’t Babylon Bee. It’s real.
Too bad she can’t sue for the death penalty
Like many of the Democrat rank and file, Tulsi is exceptionally naive.
[ Washington (CNN) — Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, alleging the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee “lied” about the Hawaii congresswoman’s ties to Russia during a 2019 interview. ]
Of course Hillary lied. It’s her main export.
The daughter of Satan has a very well oiled machine in D.C....she’ll never win!
It’s Hillary. Anything she says is knowingly false and said with malice. If it weren’t, she’d never say it.
It’s like a Cheyenne warrior society called the Contraries, who did everything backwards, including riding a horse and sex (I don’t know how), except fighting.
She should also sue for a restraining order on hillary’s face.
I deeply regret Tulsi’s imminent suicide.
Gabbard’s case won’t succeed. But at least Hillary Clinton will be forced to spend money on lawyers.
The next arkancide victim.
Tulsi should remember to never eat in the same D.C. restaurant twice.
The sentence “Hillary’s tentacles are everywhere” is often uttered by the suddenly unemployed.
Hillary should sue her plastic surgeon for being a Russian asset.
Tulsi Gabbard did not kill herself.
[I deeply regret Tulsi’s imminent suicide.]
Exactly.
I expect Tulsi will publicly apologize for embarrassing the Democrat Party.
Once the phone call is made.
She is up against an entire machine.
IOW, Hellary is going to jump in the race to save the DNC and bring Tulsi as her VP.
Another Arkancide coming ?
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