Tulsi Gabbard's Campaign Is Being Boosted by Putin Apologists

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Tulsi Gabbard’s Campaign Is Being Boosted by Putin Apologists

Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein at the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles


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Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is being underwritten by some of the nation’s leading Russophiles.

Donors to her campaign in the first quarter of the year included: Stephen F. Cohen, a Russian studies professor at New York University and prominent Kremlin sympathizer; Sharon Tennison, a vocal Putin supporter who nonetheless found herself detained by Russian authorities in 2016; and an employee of the Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT, who appears to have donated under the alias “Goofy Grapes.”

Gabbard is one of her party’s more Russia-friendly voices in an era of deep Democratic suspicion of the country over its efforts to tip the 2016 election in favor of President Donald Trump. Her financial support from prominent pro-Russian voices in the U.S. is a small portion of the total she’s raised. But it still illustrates the degree to which she deviates from her party’s mainstream on such a contentious and high-profile issue.

Data on Gabbard’s financial supporters only covers the first three months of the year. In that time, her campaign received just over $1,000 from Cohen, arguably the nation’s leading intellectual apologist for Russian president Vladimir Putin.



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[Hekate]

1. Here is an excellent link on Tulsi's upbringing in a cult...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211695834

In addition, there is a Hawaiian journalist who has been doing some deep digging on Tulsi's background, and one of our Hawaii DUers has posted those links. I'll add them in edit when I find them in my bookmarks.

That young lady is not all that she seems, by a long shot. She was groomed from childhood,to be the public face of a very undemocratic philosophy.

Here it is, from Mahina, with many additional links

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211667912

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2. Thanks.

[dalton99a]

3. +1. There is a man behind the curtain

[NurseJackie]

5. I've had just about all I can stand from people involved in cults.

[NurseJackie]

4. Good information! Thanks for sharing!

[oasis]

6. Kick for exposure. "The More You Know"

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7. Kick