CLAREMONT, New Hampshire — Tulsi Gabbard said that the $50 million in damages sought in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton is not enough.
“It should have been for $50 billion,” the Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate said when asked how she arrived at the figure. “What is your life worth to you? What is your honor and loyalty and your identity worth to you?”
Gabbard on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Clinton, asserting that the former Secretary of State’s October 2019 comments in which she asserted that Gabbard was being groomed by Republicans to run as a third-party spoiler candidate and appeared to call her a “Russian asset” harmed Gabbard’s political ambitions.
“What she has done is very directly attacked who I am as a person,” Gabbard, 38, said. “Like every single soldier and service member in this country, we take an oath of loyalty to our country and to our Constitution, willing to lay our lives down to serve and to protect and defend the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. This is who I am. And so to so directly dismiss the value, the honor, the loyalty, and sacrifices, not only for me but for any service member in this country, it cannot go unchecked.”
Gabbard in October responded to Clinton by calling her “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.”
