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SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:33 PM Feb 2019

Tulsi Gabbard hires Russian linked "fixer"...






From Bill Browder on Twitter:
Very interesting. Tulsi Gabbard, the only Democratic presidential candidate who has full Kremlin support and who praised Syria's Assad, has hired Chris Cooper of Potomoc Square Group, the same DC fixer who the Russians hired to smear me and Sergei Magnitsky in 2016. Coincidence?



Bill Browder is pretty much responsible for the creation of the Magnitsky Act.

After the death in prison in 2009 of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer and auditor who had represented his company and conducted an investigation into massive tax fraud related to it, Browder lobbied for Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act, a law to punish Russian human rights violators, which was signed into law in 2012 by President Barack Obama.[4][5] In 2013, Browder was tried in absentia in Russia for tax fraud, jointly in a posthumous prosecution of Magnitsky.[citation needed] He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. Interpol rejected Russian requests to arrest Browder, saying the case was political. In 2014, the European Parliament voted for sanctions against 30 Russians believed complicit in the Magnitsky case; this was the first time it had taken such action.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

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Tulsi Gabbard hires Russian linked "fixer"... (Original Post) SidDithers Feb 2019 OP
Her campaign is going nowhere SHRED Feb 2019 #1
GOOD! calimary Feb 2019 #2
Me also SHRED Feb 2019 #18
She's just another fraud duforsure Feb 2019 #3
As Malcolm Nance has Said, "Coincidences Take a Lot of Coordination" dlk Feb 2019 #4
He also said on Stephanie Miller show today shs is a repuke in disguise and a libertarian like Jill kimbutgar Feb 2019 #6
He was on The Stephanie Miller Show this morning and "anti-endorsed" her. GoCubsGo Feb 2019 #7
TG's comments about Assad and approval by the Kremlin democratisphere Feb 2019 #5
Thank you for stating this so LittleGirl Feb 2019 #19
She's also the only Dem with David Duke's endorsement Blue_Tires Feb 2019 #8
+1. Very peculiar, indeed dalton99a Feb 2019 #22
Whoever wrote that letter needs an editor -- stat. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2019 #9
Gabbard is only in the game . . . peggysue2 Feb 2019 #10
well, also, running for high office can be very lucrative, many have made tons of money doing so yaesu Feb 2019 #13
100% THIS! oasis Feb 2019 #14
We'll see krkaufman Feb 2019 #16
If I were a politician I would'nt so much as order russian dressing in this climate. miyazaki Feb 2019 #11
Exactly. Which makes what's going on to be very curious. OnDoutside Feb 2019 #26
If I were a politician, I wouldn't even have a Russian Blue cat meow2u3 Feb 2019 #12
Are we all in agreement that no REAL Democrat could/would possibly support her? Texin Feb 2019 #15
Tulsi Gabbard's pResidential campaign got off on a running start... magicarpet Feb 2019 #17
Tulsi says: Fuzzpope Feb 2019 #20
These Gabbard threads were more fun when her fans chimed in BannonsLiver Feb 2019 #21
I missed that... SidDithers Feb 2019 #24
I got a hide yesterday for saying that gabard got endorsed drray23 Feb 2019 #31
Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accuses fellow Democrats of 'religious bigotry' in questioning judicial.. Cha Feb 2019 #32
Post removed Post removed Feb 2019 #23
Is she taking the piss or what ? Were it not for what we know about Russian influence on the Trump OnDoutside Feb 2019 #25
So many coincidences. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #27
Russians enid602 Feb 2019 #28
What a trainwreck. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2019 #29
As we found out..... Turbineguy Feb 2019 #30
Mahalo Christine Gralow and Sid! Cha Feb 2019 #33

kimbutgar

(21,181 posts)
6. He also said on Stephanie Miller show today shs is a repuke in disguise and a libertarian like Jill
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:46 PM
Feb 2019

Stein who was a Russian asset.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
7. He was on The Stephanie Miller Show this morning and "anti-endorsed" her.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 12:48 PM
Feb 2019

The video of his weekly appearance will probably be up on the show's YouTube page sometime today. Toward the end, Stephanie asked him about Gabbard. He had NOTHING nice to say about her, and called her a "Glenn Greenwald Libertarian." He basically called her a "wolf in sheep's clothing."

LittleGirl

(8,291 posts)
19. Thank you for stating this so
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:00 PM
Feb 2019

much better than I could. Short and to the point.




She isn't qualified as a D (in my book). no further comment about that subject. thanks.

greatauntoftriplets

(175,749 posts)
9. Whoever wrote that letter needs an editor -- stat.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 01:34 PM
Feb 2019

Fine one to complain about Ms. Gralow's journalistic abilities.

peggysue2

(10,839 posts)
10. Gabbard is only in the game . . .
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 01:38 PM
Feb 2019

to be a spoiler, much like Jill Stein. And this additional tidbit means her campaign is toxic to boot. Browder is well respected, except by the Russians.

This isn't 2016. Gabbard is going nowhere.

yaesu

(8,020 posts)
13. well, also, running for high office can be very lucrative, many have made tons of money doing so
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 02:36 PM
Feb 2019

if they know how to legally game the system which is easy to do. Not saying this may be a motive for her, I really don't know much about her, but it happens, Just ask many of the con Senators who have made 100's of thousands doing so. Look how much tRump made just off his inaugural fund. Its also a way of bribing politicians.

krkaufman

(13,435 posts)
16. We'll see
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 02:58 PM
Feb 2019

Her job may simply be to run for a while then end her campaign at some point, then renounce membership in the Democratic Party because they’ve “become too extreme.” Her criticism of Hirono and others Re: Senate questioning was suspect, and this adds to it.

Texin

(2,597 posts)
15. Are we all in agreement that no REAL Democrat could/would possibly support her?
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 02:40 PM
Feb 2019

Obviously, the only way she ever won her seat in Hawaii must have been because she never voiced any of her radical ideas, or she was voted for by rethugs.

BannonsLiver

(16,439 posts)
21. These Gabbard threads were more fun when her fans chimed in
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 03:27 PM
Feb 2019

Her biggest DU fan was jettisoned a few weeks ago.

drray23

(7,637 posts)
31. I got a hide yesterday for saying that gabard got endorsed
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 05:20 PM
Feb 2019

By David duke and was criticizing Hawaii senators. All factual.

Cha

(297,574 posts)
32. Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accuses fellow Democrats of 'religious bigotry' in questioning judicial..
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 11:41 PM
Feb 2019

in questioning judicial nominee

Hirono’s office responded Wednesday that Gabbard was mischaracterizing her questioning of Buescher, and that the senator was voicing her concerns about the nominee’s past public statements rather than his religion.

“It is unfortunate that Congresswoman Gabbard based her misguided opinion on the far-right wing manipulation of these straightforward questions,” Hirono spokesman Will Dempster said in a statement.

He added that over the past two years, Hirono “has been attacked by right wing ideologues for her examination of Donald Trump’s ideologically-driven nominees to the courts.”

“Senator Hirono asks all judicial nominees — particularly those who have expressed very strong personal ideological views in conflict with Supreme Court precedent — if they can be fair,” Dempster said. “She asked Mr. Buescher, who has a clear record of anti-choice activism, whether he could separate his personal beliefs from decisions he would make if confirmed for a lifetime appointment on the federal bench.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hawaii-rep-tulsi-gabbard-accuses-fellow-democrats-of-religious-bigotry-in-questioning-judicial-nominee/2019/01/09/2c17ecdc-1467-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?utm_term=.97039859a6e2

Response to SidDithers (Original post)

OnDoutside

(19,969 posts)
25. Is she taking the piss or what ? Were it not for what we know about Russian influence on the Trump
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 04:05 PM
Feb 2019

campaign, it would be scarcely believable. They must be confident to be so open.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,191 posts)
29. What a trainwreck.
Wed Feb 13, 2019, 04:21 PM
Feb 2019

God help us if somehow things get manipulated and she gains any sort of traction.

I want to say we're smarter than that. Time will tell.

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