Hillary's gone crazy': Trump knocks Clinton for 'Russian asset' jab at Gabbard
by Carlin Becker
| October 19, 2019 10:57 PM
President Trump slammed Hillary Clinton for insinuating that Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein are "Russian" assets.
"So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is calling Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard 'a Russian favorite,' and Jill Stein 'a Russian asset,'" he tweeted Saturday night. "As you may have heard, I was called a big Russia lover also (actually, I do like Russian people. I like all people!). Hillary’s gone Crazy!"
During a Thursday podcast interview, Clinton said Russia had groomed Stein to be a spoiler third-party candidate in 2016 and implied that the Kremlin is doing the same with Gabbard in order to take votes away from the 2020 Democratic ticket and secure Trump's reelection.
"They are also going to do third party again," Clinton, 71, said. "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."
"She is a favorite of the Russians," she continued, referring to Gabbard without mentioning the Hawaii representative by name. "They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. That's assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she is also a Russian asset."
Gabbard, who is currently a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard, fired back at Clinton on Friday, calling her "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long." Some of her fellow 2020 Democratic contenders later came to her defense.
On Saturday, Stein also defended herself and said Clinton's accusation is a "completely unhinged conspiracy theory." Trump previously weighed in on the controversy on Stein's behalf, blasting "Crooked Hillary" for attacking the "respected environmentalist."