It's sounds like with all your "maybes" we would be gullible to believe any of the rhetoric you are trying to sell here. You say, "bring down Trump's policies", but then say no one knows but his inner circle.  So how would you know Gabbard is some how a puppet of Putin and/or Assad trying to bring down Trump's policies when no one knows what the policies are to bring down? 
Please explain.
To address your question, "everyone in Hawaii" is not attacking trump, nor is "everyone in Hawaii" being soft on obama. The American way seems so foreign to you that everyone in Hawaii does not have to think the same and we all a have right to an individual opinion and to be able to voice it, including Gabbard. When you speak in absolutes of "everyone in Hawaii" as if local people all think exactly the same, that is a flawed premise to begin with.  So to try and give an answer to your question when your perceptions about local people are so inherently flawed and inaccurate, it is impossible