Hillary Clinton’s attack on Tulsi Gabbard is better than an endorsement.

She put the Hawaiian congresswoman and long shot presidential candidate on the map.

And the only other politician happier than Tulsi is Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The next time Russia is accused of meddling in the 2020 presidential election, he can accuse Hillary of the same thing.

The guy is chortling into his Stoli. His old KGB could not have done it any better. He got Hillary Clinton to do in 2020 what he was blamed for doing in 2016 — trying to screw up a U.S. presidential campaign.

Vlad ought to thank her by making a hefty donation to the Clinton Foundation, if it has not gone bust now that she and Bill Clinton are no longer in power.

Think about what just happened here. Hillary Clinton, the most prominent of Democrats, accused Gabbard, a fellow Democrat, member of Congress, an Army National Guard major with two tours of duty in the Middle East, of being a Russian asset, groomed to run as a third-party spoiler in the 2020 presidential election.

Charges like this have not been heard since Republican right-wing Sen. Joe McCarthy used to go around calling Democrat lefties communists and fellow travelers in the 1950s. He destroyed a lot of innocent people.

This time it is a top Democrat calling a fellow Democrat “a favorite of the Russians.” For good measure Hillary, who is still obsessed with her 2016 defeat by Donald Trump, even brought Jill Stein into the mix, a woman nobody has heard from in years.

Hillary said that Stein, who in 2016 ran for president as the Green Party candidate, was “a Russian asset” as well, and implied that she might have beaten Trump had not Stein siphoned off votes that would have gone to her, which represents still another excuse in the long list of reasons why she lost the election.

In the real world — and not the world Hillary Clinton lives in — the telegenic Gabbard would be the ideal feminist candidate for president. Not only was she the youngest person elected to the Hawaii State Legislature at age 21, she has had a distinguished military career, and is a Hindu of Asian, Polynesian and Caucasian descent.

The apparent rap against her by progressives is that she was opposed to military intervention in the Middle East and was critical of Saint Barack for refusing to call radical Islamic terrorists radical Islamic terrorists. They have also criticized her for meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a fellow Hindu, and Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

But her real “crime” against Hillary appears to have been her endorsement of Bernie Sanders in 2016 when she resigned as vice chair of the Democrat National Committee, which tilted toward Clinton, to do so.

Hillary would do well to be wary of taking on Gabbard. She will not roll over for Clinton the way other Democrats do. Her response to Clinton was quite to the point. Gabbard fired back to the Russian taunt:

“You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know — it was always you through your proxies … Don’t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.”

What Gabbard did not address, but could have, was Clinton’s support of the bombing of Libya, which is now a basket case and terrorist breeding ground. She could have also mentioned her interactions as secretary of state that led to the Russians controlling one fifth of the uranium produced in the United States.

This came about when the Russians bought Uranium One, a Canadian company that controlled uranium mining in in the American West. Not only did Clinton’s State Department sign off on the deal, but the Uranium One’s chairman used his family’s foundation to donate $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.

Not long after the deal was consummated, Bill Clinton went to Moscow to give a speech for which he got $500,000, paid by a Russian bank with links to Putin that was promoting Uranium One stock.

Of course, it was all an innocent coincidence.

And I’m a Russian asset.