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Gabbard lawyers demand retraction of Clinton's 'defamation'

Lawyers representing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Monday called on Hillary Clinton to retract her comments alleging that the 2020 presidential candidate was a favorite candidate of the Russians, accusing the 2016 Democratic nominee of defamation.

"Your statement is defamatory, and we demand that you retract it immediately," Gabbard's lawyer wrote in a letter, demanding that Clinton verbally retract the comments and post the retraction on Twitter.

Clinton's spokesman declined to comment on the letter.

Clinton made the remarks last month on the "Campaign HQ" podcast.

“She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her, so far,” Clinton said, without referring to Gabbard by name.

Clinton also said "they" are grooming Gabbard to run as a third-party candidate against the eventual Democratic nominee.

A Clinton spokesman later said the former secretary of State had been referring to Republicans with the grooming comment.

"It appears you may now be claiming that this statement is about Republicans (not Russians) grooming Gabbard," Gabbard's lawyer wrote in the letter. "But this makes no sense in light of what you actually said. After you made the statement linking Congresswoman Gabbard to the Russians, you (through your spokesman) doubled down on it with the Russian nesting dolls remark."

Gabbard has consistently denied she is interested in a third-party White House bid.

The congresswoman has faced repeated criticism for some of her foreign policy views, particularly about American military involvement in Syria.
 
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Yang is diagnosing the problem correctly and is well ahead of the curve in Democratic politics by putting these issues on the table. The issue is his treatment, i.e. basic income, which I'm starting to have reason to believe could devastate the economy unless accompanied by a broader redistributionist agenda plus an expansion of public services. Nixon of all people almost launched a basic income program but was talked out of it based on some (contested) negative historical precedents. I'm very interested to see where Yang goes from here politically. I feel like he needs to work out some more details, but what he's bringing to the table is interesting.

Shut up, I know you're actually Yang

Andrew Yang wants you to make money off your data by making it your personal property
 

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I see a lot of Medicaid. I will make more money in a Medicare for all system.
I still think German style standardizing non profit coop competition is a better model (original Obamacare plan actually pretty close)
 
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I see a lot of Medicaid. I will make more money in a Medicare for all system.
I still think German style standardizing non profit coop competition is a better model (original Obamacare plan actually pretty close)
Medicaid is a great idea but it gets abused
 

Splinty

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Medicaid is a great idea but it gets abused
Medicaid is terrible. Covers nothing for the patient and pays so little that I see them out of a moral obligation (bad with the good). If I took more I'd have to stop taking new Medicaid as I lose money on most of them. The worst part is its mostly kids I'm losing money on. Can't we all agree that KIDS shouldn't have shit insurance that you can't get specialist and that your doc has to bury their resentment for seeing? I don't want to think about how I'm losing money while seeing a sick kid!
 

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