{"id":192504,"date":"2019-08-02T07:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192504"},"modified":"2019-08-05T07:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T07:25:21","slug":"kamalaharrisdestroyed-trends-on-twitter-after-annihilation-by-tulsi-gabbard-russian-bots-blamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192504","title":{"rendered":"#KamalaHarrisDestroyed trends on Twitter after annihilation by Tulsi Gabbard, \u2018Russian bots\u2019 blamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 Aug 1, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-vladimir-putin-getty2-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-192509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-vladimir-putin-getty2-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-vladimir-putin-getty2-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-vladimir-putin-getty2-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Twitter deemed presidential hopeful Kamala Harris utterly \u201cdestroyed,\u201d after fellow candidate Tulsi Gabbard landed dizzying verbal haymakers on the former California prosecutor. Naturally, \u2018Russian bots\u2019 were swiftly blamed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wednesday night\u2019s Democratic debate was not an enjoyable one for Harris, who went into the faceoff as a darling of the media and among the frontrunners for her party\u2019s nomination. On the stage in Detroit, Hawaiian Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard grilled Harris on her record as California\u2019s attorney general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In under a minute, Gabbard <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/465523-tulsi-trending-attacks-harris-twitter\/\">shredded<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Harris to pieces for jailing more than 1,500 nonviolent marijuana offenders while admitting in a radio interview that she had smoked marijuana in college, and for her <em>\u201ctough-on-crime\u201d<\/em> stances. \u201c<em>She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row\u2026 she kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor\u2026 and she fought to keep the cash bail system in place,\u201d<\/em> Gabbard continued, leaving Harris unable to counter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cfp_IIdVnXs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">By Thursday morning, <em>\u201c#KamalaHarrisDestroyed\u201d<\/em> was trending on Twitter in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Whatever you think about Tulsi Gabbard, she told the truth about Kamala Harris\u2019 atrocious record as a prosecutor. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KamalaHarrisDestroyed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KamalaHarrisDestroyed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2014 Sean Kent (@seankent) <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seankent\/status\/1156843086162595840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi beat that cop so badly that even Ice T was wincing<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FINALLEVEL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FINALLEVEL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KamalaHarris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KamalaHarris<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KamalaHarrisdestroyed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KamalaHarrisdestroyed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmalice\/status\/1156935493470343168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/USMCLiberal\/status\/1156938296423006210<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Of course, any attack on an establishment Democrat is met with an equal and opposite reaction. Establishment pundits and their supporters responded with a familiar cry: <em>\u201cRussia!\u201d<\/em> Gabbard, they said, is propped up by Vladimir Putin, and #KamalaHarrisDestroyed is the work of <em>\u201cPutin\u2019s bots and paid for shills.\u201d<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tulsi is 2020\u2019s Jill Stein. A fraudulent, Vladimir Putin approved spoiler. Putin took Tulsi, an American soldier, and turned her into a Trojan Horse, his own <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SiberianCandidate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SiberianCandidate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence? Putin\u2019s bots and paid for shills are pushing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KamalaHarrisDestroyed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KamalaHarrisDestroyed<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mattison (@Mattison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mattison\/status\/1156881009092255744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Even Harris&#8217; press secretary, Ian Sams, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanSams\/status\/1156741869621133318?s=19\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>labeled<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Gabbard&#8217;s supporters part of\u00a0<em>&#8220;the Russian propaganda machine.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">It\u2019s worth noting that nobody shouting <em>\u201cRussian bots\u201d<\/em> did any data analysis to support their claims. Few noted too that, during the debate, \u2018Tulsi Gabbard\u2019 was the most<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GoogleTrends\/status\/1156760026624643073\">searched<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for politician in every single US state, according to Google Trends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But if the nefarious hashtag wasn\u2019t the work of the Kremlin, then it must have been the work of the MAGA-hatted deplorables, some #resistance commenters argued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/lordxmen2k\/status\/1156869219105083393<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">That opponents would default to Russia to attack Gabbard is unsurprising. Running on an anti-interventionist, foreign-policy-focused platform, Gabbard has been accused of cosying up to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for her opposition to military action in Syria and for meeting with Assad in Damascus. That stance alone led to accusations that she was more closely aligned with the position of the Kremlin than that of the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">At present, Gabbard is a long-shot candidate, and is polling at around one percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/465579-kamala-harris-destroyed-tulsi\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsi Gabbard demolishes Kamala Harris. 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