Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke out on Friday to take a veiled shot at Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), claiming that she is being groomed by Russia to be a third-party candidate in 2020.

Fox News reported that Clinton went after Gabbard while discussing Russian interference on David Plouffe’s Campaign HQ podcast. During the interview, Clinton suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin was grooming a third candidate to enter the 2020 presidential race in order to ensure Donald Trump would be reelected. Though she did not mention Gabbard by name, it was clear that Clinton believed that she was the alleged Russian asset.

“I’m not making any predictions but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said, referring to Gabbard. “She’s the favorite of the Russians.”

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“They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far,” Clinton continued, according to The Washington Examiner. “That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset—I mean, totally. They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.”

“I’m not making any predictions but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians,” Hillary Clinton to @davidplouffe https://t.co/DKH7BLTWs8

— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) October 18, 2019

This comes days after Gabbard accused The New York Times of calling her a “Russian asset” during Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. In an article published on October 12, the publication claimed of Gabbard: “She is injecting a bit of chaos into her own party’s primary race, threatening to boycott that debate to protest what she sees as a ‘rigging’ of the 2020 election. That’s left some Democrats wondering what, exactly, she is up to in the race, while others worry about supportive signs from online bot activity and the Russian news media.”

“The New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war [in Syria],” Gabbard said on the debate stage. “Just two days ago, the New York Times put out an article saying that I’m a Russian asset and an Assad apologist, and all these different smears.”