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Tulsi Gabbard’s Georgia Raid Is a Pretext for Future Election Intimidation
Trump wants to rewrite the 2020 election in order to fix the 2026 and 2028 results.
Jeet Heer
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard enters the Fulton County Election HUB as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta.
(Mike Stewart / AP)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard loves the spotlight as much as anyone in the Trump administration and is far more telegenic than most cabinet members. But, for most of the last year, she has been a notably less visible presence than many of her colleagues. Before jumping on the Trump train, Gabbard had a profile as a Democrat who was critical of the forever wars, a history that put her at odds with Trump as he pursued an openly imperialist and belligerent foreign policy. Despite holding the top intelligence post in the administration, she was kept out of the loop on major policies to bomb Iran and kidnap the president of Venezuela.
But even if Trump has had no use for Gabbard’s advice on foreign policy, that doesn’t mean she’s entirely superfluous. Gabbard has made herself useful by becoming the driving force behind a dangerous push to vindicate his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
On Wednesday, Gabbard participated in an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. In the wake of the raid, Trump started posting a series of unhinged and discredited conspiracy theories claiming that the 2020 election was stolen by a cabal that included former president Barack Obama, the FBI, and the CIA, as well as the governments of Italy and China. One post quoted a Twitter user named The SCIF who wrote (in part):
Italian officials at Leonardo SpA used military satellites to help hack U.S. voting machines, flipping votes from Trump to Biden using CIA-developed tools like Hammer and Scorecard. Along with numerous other methods of fraud and manipulation. China reportedly coordinated the whole operation, providing the tech backbone and bribes to corrupt Americans.
While this conspiracy theory is completely baseless, it has a powerful hold on Trump’s imagination. He brings it up on the most unexpected occasions, notably when justifying the kidnapping of Venezuelan Prime Minister Nicolas Maduro.
The fantasy that 2020 was a stolen election is partly psychological in origin: Trump’s narcissism prevents him from admitting defeat. But the election conspiracy isn’t just a personal quirk; it is integral to Trump’s ongoing political …
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard enters the Fulton County Election HUB as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta.
(Mike Stewart / AP)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard loves the spotlight as much as anyone in the Trump administration and is far more telegenic than most cabinet members. But, for most of the last year, she has been a notably less visible presence than many of her colleagues. Before jumping on the Trump train, Gabbard had a profile as a Democrat who was critical of the forever wars, a history that put her at odds with Trump as he pursued an openly imperialist and belligerent foreign policy. Despite holding the top intelligence post in the administration, she was kept out of the loop on major policies to bomb Iran and kidnap the president of Venezuela.
But even if Trump has had no use for Gabbard’s advice on foreign policy, that doesn’t mean she’s entirely superfluous. Gabbard has made herself useful by becoming the driving force behind a dangerous push to vindicate his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
On Wednesday, Gabbard participated in an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. In the wake of the raid, Trump started posting a series of unhinged and discredited conspiracy theories claiming that the 2020 election was stolen by a cabal that included former president Barack Obama, the FBI, and the CIA, as well as the governments of Italy and China. One post quoted a Twitter user named The SCIF who wrote (in part):
Italian officials at Leonardo SpA used military satellites to help hack U.S. voting machines, flipping votes from Trump to Biden using CIA-developed tools like Hammer and Scorecard. Along with numerous other methods of fraud and manipulation. China reportedly coordinated the whole operation, providing the tech backbone and bribes to corrupt Americans.
While this conspiracy theory is completely baseless, it has a powerful hold on Trump’s imagination. He brings it up on the most unexpected occasions, notably when justifying the kidnapping of Venezuelan Prime Minister Nicolas Maduro.
The fantasy that 2020 was a stolen election is partly psychological in origin: Trump’s narcissism prevents him from admitting defeat. But the election conspiracy isn’t just a personal quirk; it is integral to Trump’s ongoing political …
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard enters the Fulton County Election HUB as the FBI takes Fulton County 2020 Election ballots, Wednesday, January 28, 2026, in Union City, Ga., near Atlanta.
(Mike Stewart / AP)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard loves the spotlight as much as anyone in the Trump administration and is far more telegenic than most cabinet members. But, for most of the last year, she has been a notably less visible presence than many of her colleagues. Before jumping on the Trump train, Gabbard had a profile as a Democrat who was critical of the forever wars, a history that put her at odds with Trump as he pursued an openly imperialist and belligerent foreign policy. Despite holding the top intelligence post in the administration, she was kept out of the loop on major policies to bomb Iran and kidnap the president of Venezuela.
But even if Trump has had no use for Gabbard’s advice on foreign policy, that doesn’t mean she’s entirely superfluous. Gabbard has made herself useful by becoming the driving force behind a dangerous push to vindicate his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
On Wednesday, Gabbard participated in an FBI raid on a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office. In the wake of the raid, Trump started posting a series of unhinged and discredited conspiracy theories claiming that the 2020 election was stolen by a cabal that included former president Barack Obama, the FBI, and the CIA, as well as the governments of Italy and China. One post quoted a Twitter user named The SCIF who wrote (in part):
Italian officials at Leonardo SpA used military satellites to help hack U.S. voting machines, flipping votes from Trump to Biden using CIA-developed tools like Hammer and Scorecard. Along with numerous other methods of fraud and manipulation. China reportedly coordinated the whole operation, providing the tech backbone and bribes to corrupt Americans.
While this conspiracy theory is completely baseless, it has a powerful hold on Trump’s imagination. He brings it up on the most unexpected occasions, notably when justifying the kidnapping of Venezuelan Prime Minister Nicolas Maduro.
The fantasy that 2020 was a stolen election is partly psychological in origin: Trump’s narcissism prevents him from admitting defeat. But the election conspiracy isn’t just a personal quirk; it is integral to Trump’s ongoing political …
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