Tulsi Gabbard misquotes Hillary Clinton's jab at her

[lapucelle]

“Hillary Clinton emerged recently to claim, with no basis in fact, that I am being ‘groomed’ by the Russian government to undermine America.”

— Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), in an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 2019

This is the first sentence in an opinion article by the 2020 presidential hopeful, titled “I Can Defeat Trump and the Clinton Doctrine.” In it, Gabbard says she is running “to undo Mrs. Clinton’s failed legacy” of “foreign-policy catastrophes.”

Gabbard has taken umbrage with some remarks Clinton made during a podcast interview on Oct. 17. But Gabbard accuses Clinton of something she did not say.

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Much of the early news reporting suggested that Clinton said the Russians were “grooming” Gabbard. Merrill tweeted a cautionary note on the evening of Oct. 18:

Link to tweet

“I don’t think it’s up for debate, as Plouffe’s question is pretty clear, that Secretary Clinton was talking about the GOP, not the Russians, in her grooming comment,” Merrill told the Fact Checker.

“What I don’t understand is how the Wall Street Journal can publish a piece that is factually incorrect, especially when this same thing happened with the New York Times last week and they addressed it immediately.”

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Within a 24-hour news cycle, Clinton’s staff made it clear she was talking about the GOP, not the Russians, eyeing Gabbard as a possible third-party candidate. A simple listen to the podcast confirmed that.

In other words, this was all cleared up 12 days before Gabbard published her opinion article, making the inaccurate version of “grooming” statement the very first sentence. So there’s little excuse for getting this wrong.

Gabbard earns Three Pinocchios.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/31/tulsi-gabbard-misquotes-hillary-clintons-jab-her/

[msongs]

1. hawai'i to Hillary - Mahalo! nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Yet

we here

have to

this is

fucking

[Stuy]

3. Hillary said Republicans are grooming her

Good article.

[Cha]

4. "Gabbard earns Three Pinocchios".

Is that ALL?!

TG is gaslighting.

Mahalo, lapucelle!