At the time, Gabbard accused party leaders of stifling her freedom of speech and unfairly tipping the scales in favor of eventual nominee Hillary Clinton. "Just two days ago, The New York Times put out an article saying I'm a Russian asset and an Assad apologist, and all these different smears. Clinton described 2016 Green Party candidate Jill Stein as a “Russian asset," but didn't explicitly name Gabbard. Two MSNBC panelists even asserted that Gabbard somehow had outed herself as a "Russian asset" by responding to Clinton's accusations at all. ..."Anchor Jonathan Capehart then excitedly interjected to argue that Gabbard had indeed admitted she was a secret Russian asset, and essentially raised her hand to say, "Me!

Source: Fox News October 20, 2019 19:36 UTC