Whether you like Tulsi alot or not at all, if you can't see how blatant this shiit is....when you get a non-Establishment candidate gaining steam, just like when you get non-Establishment media pundits getting attention.....suddenly.....the Russian association is front and center. Just like that. 
She only announced she was running not even a full week.
Now watch how many other media sites report this crap, just to put it in the media clouds so it can psychologically precipitate among the population to add doubt to her credibility.
OP could have just put this fake ass story in the mega thread he knows exist, so we could debate it there, but instead created a brand new thread.
I don't know how else I can explain to yall that the Russian Collusion Delusion is/was a ploy. It's the equivalent of the
Indepence Day movie mega-ship. Everything goes back to that mega-narrative, and then at will, it can unload any lie it wants with Russian Collusion Delusion painted on the wings of the smaller ships being unleashed.
I told yall in this thread right here: EU, Congress, and Silicon Valley Caught Political/Ideological Fade, Now Censoring Alt/Indy Media , way back in 2016. They will use this ploy against any narrative or pundit that harms particular agendas or profits of particular industries....does not matter if conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever.
I thought Russians were helping the Republican libertarian alt-right, then they brainwashed black people on Facebook, now the Russians are riding with Samoan Hindu liberal progressive Democrat Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard?? ..

....yall still think this narrative has feet in 2019??
I don't know what else it's going to take to wake yall up. Read the first page of that thread, the Russian Collusion Delusion ploy is broken down as simple as can be made.