MSNBC panel: Gabbard didn’t ‘deny being a Russian asset’ – Washington Examiner

A panel on MSNBC Live mocked Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard for not explicitly denying Hillary Clinton’s accusation that she is a Russian asset.

Clinton, 71, said that the Hawaii congresswoman is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection. Gabbard has since hit back at the 2016 presidential candidate.

“One thing that was interesting about Tulsi Gabbard’s response, I mean she went after Hillary Clinton strong, she said she wasn’t going to run as a third party candidate, she never denied being a Russian asset,” Kimberly Atkins of WBUR said while beginning to laugh on the show Saturday morning. “That was the one aspect that was missing from her response, which you think that would be in the first line or two. It was not there.”

Jonathan Allen added, “When Hillary Clinton says there’s a Russian asset, doesn’t say anybody’s name, and Tulsi Gabbard goes, ‘How dare you call me a Russian asset?'”

Jonathan Capehart, who was anchoring the show, then reiterated Allen’s point that Clinton did not “name names.”

Earlier this week, Clinton appeared on Campaign HQ and stated, “I think [Russia has] got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate.”

Gabbard attacked Clinton, calling her “the queen of warmongers” and accusing her of being the “embodiment of corruption.”