Read on Twitter
U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard finally released a copy of the demand letter her campaign sent to Hillary Clinton https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1194386961848356866?s=20
Brian Dunne is the attorney who wrote it. He works for Pierce Bainbridge, a California law firm that has two partners representing Rudy Giuliani in the ongoing Ukraine scandal https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/11/06/giuliani-turns-to-pierce-bainbridge-and-michael-cohens-ex-lawyer-for-representation/?slreturn=20191012182204
Dunne is the same lawyer who represents Gabbard in her $50 million lawsuit against Google that parrots right-wing talking points about censorship https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3navw/tulsi-gabbards-dollar50-million-google-lawsuit-takes-a-page-from-the-far-right-playbook
Gabbard's FEC reports show her campaign paid Pierce Bainbridge $50,000 on July 16. That's well before Clinton made her remarks but right around the time she filed suit against Google. That means she could be spending even more campaign money on her fight with Clinton
Some might argue this is money well spent since Gabbard's spat with Clinton coincided with a bump in the polls that helped her make the November debate stage https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/hillary-clinton-elevating-tulsi-gabbard/600370/
Of course, there were others who weren't so sure the fight will help Gabbard win over Democrats in the long run https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/07/did-hillary-clintons-criticism-help-or-hurt-tulsi-gabbards-candidacy/
Speaking of Gabbard's supporters...
Her base, per this @FiveThirtyEight analysis, appears to be mostly male. They also tend to skew independent and conservative, with a significant number saying they supported Trump in 2016 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-tulsi-gabbards-base/
Her base, per this @FiveThirtyEight analysis, appears to be mostly male. They also tend to skew independent and conservative, with a significant number saying they supported Trump in 2016 https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-tulsi-gabbards-base/
This is all to say Gabbard sure is getting a lot of political mileage out of Clinton's statements, even if there are questions about whether she's mischaracterizing what Clinton said about who exactly was grooming her — Republicans or the Russians https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gabbard-lawyers-call-context-clinton-comments-defamatory-demand/story?id=66920033
