Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC, Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Hillary Clinton seeking $50 million in damages, claiming the former Democratic presidential nominee “carelessly and recklessly impugned” her reputation when she suggested in October that one of the 2020 Democratic candidates is “the favorite of the Russians.”
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, says it aims to hold Clinton and other “political elites” accountable for “distorting the truth in the middle of a critical Presidential election.” It also says Gabbard suffered an economic loss to be proven at trial.
Clinton, claimed in October that the Hawaii Democrat was “a favorite of the Russians.” She also suggested that Republicans believe Gabbard could be persuaded to run as a third-party candidate, which could benefit President Trump in the general election.
“They are also going to do third-party again, and I’m not making any predictions, but I think they got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said.
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