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Friday, February 06, 2026

President Donald Trump ordered Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S.'s top intelligence official, to take part in the FBI's extraordinary raid on an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last week, the New York Times reported citing U.S. officials.

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President Donald Trump offered a shifting explanation for the presence of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at an FBI search last week of the main elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia. https://to.pbs.org/3O144ll

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Following the raid, Gabbard organized a phone call between the president and some of the agents who executed the raid, the Times also reported. During the conversation, Trump reportedly asked the agents questions while praising and thanking them for their work on the inquiry.

Trump personally speaking with agents and coordinating actions directly affecting their investigation could undermine any criminal case that stems from the FBI's probe.

THIS IS INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-05 06:47 PM | Reply

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-05 06:53 PM | Reply

Sounds as if they are doing Watergate-type burglaries right out in the open now.

#3 | Posted by ExpectingReign at 2026-02-05 07:00 PM | Reply

Then there's this ...

Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence services (2024)
apnews.com

... Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. intelligence services, in 2022 endorsed one of Russia's main justifications for invading Ukraine: the existence of dozens of U.S.-funded biolabs working on some of the world's nastiest pathogens.

Moscow claimed Ukraine was using the labs to create deadly bioweapons similar to COVID-19 that could be used against Russia, and that Russian President Vladimir Putin had no choice but to invade neighboring Ukraine to protect his country.

In fact, the labs are public and part of an international effort to control outbreaks and stop bioweapons.

Gabbard, a military veteran and a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, later said she wasn't accusing the United States or Ukraine of anything nefarious and was just voicing concerns about protecting the labs.

But to critics in the U.S., including lawmakers in both parties, the comments showed a disturbing willingness to parrot Russian propaganda -- a tendency that has earned Gabbard praise on Russian state TV. ...


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-05 08:15 PM | Reply

WHY ISN'T THAT TRAITOR SWINGING FROM A NOOSE?

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-05 08:45 PM | Reply

Gabbard's office examined voting machines in Puerto Rico
www.nbcnews.com

... The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says it obtained and examined electronic voting machines in Puerto Rico last year to look for possible security vulnerabilities.

Authorities in Puerto Rico voluntarily handed over the equipment to ODNI, which wanted to evaluate the risk to the machinery given that "similar infrastructure is used throughout the United States," an ODNI spokesperson said in an email.

News of the move by the office overseen by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, follows President Donald Trump's calls to "nationalize" future elections and have the federal government "get involved" in some states where he says there is a risk of fraud.

Reuters first reported the ODNI's action in Puerto Rico. ...


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-06 01:02 AM | Reply

Because they're trying to hammer election control into a counterintelligence shaped hole.

No doubt we'll hear of a coerced admission from Maduro that Venezuela used Italian space laser satellites to meddle in the 2020 election and then they'll use that to claim national security emergency powers to further eviscerate the Constitution and exert Federal control of elections.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-06 11:11 AM | Reply

In normal times, anything that comes out as "proof" of a fraudulent election as a result of this raid would be considered tainted evidence.

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2026-02-06 12:05 PM | Reply

It will even now.

To those of us with functional brains.

It's only the brain dead idiots who still support Trump that will be good little lap dogs and repeat the evidence-free claims without question.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-06 12:40 PM | Reply

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