Tulsi Gabbard Sends Cease & Desist Letter to Mitt Romney for ‘Treasonous’ Smear 

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Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard put Mitt Romney on notice this week with a cease and desist letter sent to the Republican Senator from Utah — as well as one to former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann — for their disparaging claims that Gabbard was “treasonous” and a “Russian asset.”

The letter to Romney— sent by San Francisco attorney and RNC Committeewoman Harmeet Dhillon — came with a warning that if Romney wished to “avoid litigation, we demand your response to this letter on or before April 27, 2022” before outlining the impetus for the cease and desist letter:

On March 13, 2022, you tweeted the following: “Tulsi Gabbard is parroting false Russian propaganda. Her treasonous lies may well cost lives.”1 Your tweet had no surrounding context and was not part of a broader conversation. Your accusation that Representative Gabbard, a combat veteran and current military officer, has engaged in “treasonous” activity is completely false, a fact of which you were well aware when you made your claim. And as explained below, your accusation that…Read more here.