Bill Browder has something to say about Tulsi Gabbard (and she won't like it).

[triron]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the General Discussion forum).

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[boston bean]

1. I really do not like her.

[aeromanKC]

19. +1000

[Me.]

2. All Right Bill

THe truth is slowly eeking out

[lapucelle]

26. Here's a 2018 story from The Hawaii Free Press about the hire.

Tulsi Gabbard Hires Russian Agent to Keep Hawaii Media in Check

by Andrew Walden
January 5, 2018

Russia has lots of experience in media censorship. So perhaps it is logical that Rep Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI-2) hires an agent of the Russian government as a ‘consultant’ to keep Hawaii media under control.

But Gabbard’s consultant, Chris Cooper of the Potomac Square Group, is no ordinary Russian agent. Cooper is allegedly one of seven identified as being at the center of illegal Russian lobbying efforts reaching into the Trump campaign and Congress.

Inquiries with Gabbard’s DC office last June by reporter Christine Gralow—then stringing an article for Honolulu Magazine--must have piqued the attentions of the numerous Hare Krishna cultists employed there. Within 24 hours a letter from Cooper, identifying himself as “a consultant to Rep. Tulsi Gabbard,” riddled with misspellings and inaccuracies, landed in the in-box of Honolulu Magazine’s editors.

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According to Hermitage, Cooper arranged a June 13, 2016 Washington, DC showing of an anti-Magnitsky Act ‘documentary’ along with Rinat Akhmetshin “a former member of the Russian military intelligence services (GRU).” Hermitage continues: “…the day after the Newseum event, Congressman Royce chaired a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on U.S. policy towards Putin’s Russia… attended by…Natalia Veselnitskaya and Rinat Akhmetshin.”

Cooper’s website informs readers that he “help(s) clients define and disseminate their narratives” and “client work focuses on interests in the US and Europe and countries that include Russia….”

The New York Times buttonholed Cooper at the documentary showing and reports: “Mr. Cooper rented the theater in the Newseum and declined to say who was paying his company.”

Asked who paid him to write the letter to Honolulu Magazine, Cooper likewise did not respond to Hawai’i Free Press. Gabbard’s FEC records and the Congressional Statement of Disbursements for the timeframe show no payment of campaign funds or Congressional office funds to Cooper or Potomac Square. Neither Gabbard nor her office responded to our query.

http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/20879/Tulsi-Gabbard-Hires-Russian-Agent-to-Keep-Hawaii-Media-in-Check.aspx

[Cha]

29. Mahalo for posting this, lapucelle.. I've seen

this before. Grateful it's getting out there!

i wish the OP would post this in DP! I shall ask him.

[Cha]

31. There's this from someone in Hawaii who's been "smeared by TG

Link to tweet

Also, I see this has been posted in DP..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287317704#top

[BootinUp]

3. Gabbard's middle name should be ulterior motives. Nt

[LovingA2andMI]

5. Or....

Starts with a "R" and end with a "N" with four letters of in-between -- some of a similar letter twice.

[Frances]

4. I'm glad the truth is coming out now

[2naSalit]

6. Well, well, well...

will you have a look at that. Someone was so sensitive about the truth that she outed herself within hours when a suggestion of "someone" was made. Now the truth is being revealed.

There was some saying about an awl in a cloth bag...

[Dave Starsky]

24. No kidding! She completely (and rather stupidly) outed her own self.

It would be like if I walked in a room and said, "Someone here is a sheep molester AND a horse thief!" And some dude stepped forward and said, "How dare you! I NEVER stole a horse!"

[Garrett78]

7. Alliteration of the day: Gabbard's gotta go

[calimary]

16. Love it!!!

Excellent word play!

I happen to LOVE alliteration and consonance. Technically this one would be consonance because it’s first letter is a consonant as opposed to a vowel.

This is your Miss Priss moment!

And at moments like this, may I add that I’m reminded of an old “Peanuts” cartoon where either Charlie Brown or Lucy concluded an embarrassing encounter with the assessment “I’m never quite so stupid as when I’m being smart!”

[Garrett78]

21. I recall learning something to that effect, but I just Googled this and found the following:

https://westmaneditorial.com/blog/alliteration-vs-consonance-vs-assonance-whats-the-difference/

So, it seems Gabbard's gotta go is, in fact, an example of alliteration.

[Enoki33]

8. All the Russian assets infesting our political and economic systems have

to be exposed an rejected for the traitors they are.

[femmedem]

9. That's pretty damning.

I've disagreed with Tulsi Gabbard's policies and thought that her response to Clinton was disqualifying but haven't jumped on the "Tulsi is a Russian asset" train because Clinton didn't substantiate her allegations. I thought most likely Tulsi was ideologically an isolationist, which happens to help Putin, but not deliberately an asset.

But I didn't know this.

[Mr.Bill]

10. "I don't control what anyone else says or does."

Thanks for letting us know you have no leadership abilities and are unfit to be President or hold any other elective office or position of responsibility. It's hard to believe you survived a military environment.

[Ptah]

11. Why is this so difficult?

[BootinUp]

12. Lol

[Hamlette]

14. I appreciate this post being in General Discussion

I don't go to the Primary threads so I wouldn't see this.

This is information for a wider audience. IMO. It shows Russia's continued influence in out country because Trump did nothing.

[crickets]

22. Agreed. nt

[triron]

28. Thanks. Obviously I agree or I wouldn't have posted it here.

[mcar]

13. She takes no responsibility

[MontanaMama]

25. Gee who does this remind you

of....who could it be?

[PatSeg]

15. Sorry Tulsi

But it IS about Russia. After 2016, Democrats have every reason to be suspicious of even the slightest appearance of Russian influence.

[calimary]

18. No kidding! THIS!!!

You REALLY summed it up, PatSeg.

[PatrickforO]

17. Well, the plot around Gabbard thickens. Or perhaps Gabbard's plot.

I guess we must watch who is being used in this way, and trust no one.

When we take back power, we really need to get the dark money out of DC, and harden our elections so people can trust them again.

[Traildogbob]

20. She is being financed

As I have stated before here, a year ago traveling through rural Red South Carolina, I passed billboard after billboard of Tulsi for president. A year ago, plastered all over. Does anyone believe Democrates would be funding so much for her at 1 percent in an no chance rural red states? I called The Randi Rhoads show to bring it up, immediately callers from heavy red areas in Florida, and Ohio called echoing same dismay. Follow the money. Why would those rural red hats be so interested in her, from Hawaii? Why pump in DNC cash for a no win situation? They do not even believe that is part of America.

[CottonBear]

23. Last month, I saw one of the billboards on the interstate in South Carolina.

I was traveling on interstate 85 north in upstate South Carolina headed for North Carolina.

My first thought was of a third-party Russian asset campaign.

[Traildogbob]

27. Same here

My trip was from WNC on 26 through Columbia then 20 to Georgia. From N.C. To Columbia I saw 12 billboards. The same on the return trip. That's a lot of cash to promote her through that area. If she comes out as third party, enough said. She is too much of "give Putin a pass" for me. Jill Stien was a component of trump win. Funny how she vanished after elections and NEVER has a word to say about environmental destruction from GOP. Obvious Puty puppet. Gabbert is Stein 2.0. When are we gonna take Clintons warnings seriously?

[Cha]

30. If it's not about russia answer the damn

question, gabbard!

I wish you would post this in DP, too, triron.. Mahalo!

Link to tweet

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100212603103#top
Retweeted!

Nevermind! I see it is posted in DP..

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287317704#top

[Omaha Steve]

32. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING

"I asked @TulsiGabbard - twice - if she disavows Russian state media support of her campaign."

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