Tulsi Gabbard deems Hillary Clinton the 'queen of warmongers' in outrageous tweet storm
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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has uh... something to say.
In a Thursday interview with the Campaign HQ podcast, Hillary Clinton suggested Republicans were "grooming" a current 2020 candidate "to be the third party candidate," clearly implying that the outsider Democrat Gabbard is a "favorite of the Russians." So with a very absurd and slightly unhinged tweet storm, Gabbard fired back.
Reports have indicated Gabbard's campaign has become a target of foreign bots and Russian media — something Gabbard didn't address in her Friday tweets. She instead labeled Clinton "the queen of warmongers" and "embodiment of corruption," and taunted her by declaring "this primary is between you and me."
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Clinton's spokesperson responded with a sly zinger...
... while Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) just tried to figure out exactly what went down.
And 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein, who Clinton also declared a Russian asset in her Thursday interview, challenged the former secretary of state to a debate. Kathryn Krawczyk
Update: An earlier version of this story said Clinton believed Russians, not Republicans, are grooming Gabbard for a third-party run. We have updated the story accordingly, based on Clinton's full comments, and apologize for the error.
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