A current raid by the FBI in Georgia has raised eyebrows, because it seems to be placing authorities energy behind Trump’s false claims of a stolen 2020 election. Suspicions grew as one in all Trump’s high officers, who has a historical past of selling the president’s conspiracy theories, was seen on the bottom.
Gabbard’s presence raises authorized issues
The FBI raided a Fulton County, Georgia, election office on Wednesday, executing a warrant to grab supplies associated to the 2020 election, together with ballots, voter rolls, tabulator tapes and extra. The raid appears to be associated to Trump’s false declare that he gained the 2020 presidential vote in Georgia. Present on the raid was Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The presence of the DNI, who covers exterior nationwide safety threats by way of businesses such because the CIA, was uncommon. Gabbard attending the raid was additionally improper and raises authorized questions, because the DNI is barred from partaking in domestic law enforcement activities. A former nationwide safety official instructed NBC News, “Even if there was some legal exercise within the 2020 election in Georgia — regardless of repeated investigations that present there was none — it’s nonetheless a purely home downside — not one involving overseas nations. The director of nationwide intelligence has nothing to do with this.”
Despite accusations of election fraud being exterior of the purview of the DNI, The Wall Street Journal reported that White House sources indicated that Gabbard has been engaged for months in investigating Trump’s accusations of fraud within the 2020 election. Publicly, the White House justified Gabbard’s presence on the Georgia raid. “Director Gabbard has a pivotal function in election safety and defending the integrity of our elections in opposition to interference, together with operations focusing on voting techniques, databases, & election infrastructure,” a senior administration official stated, in response to CNN senior nationwide safety reporter Zachary Cohen. The administration additionally indicated that “she has & will proceed to take motion on President Trump’s directive to safe our elections & work with our interagency companions to take action.”
The consideration being given to the 2020 election, with the FBI and the Director of National Intelligence partaking on this investigation, demonstrates the extent to which Trump continues to push his false declare that he gained the 2020 election in states like Georgia and nationally. In actuality, Trump was indicted in Fulton County for making an attempt to rig the 2020 election in Georgia, together with by infamously pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “discover” 11,780 votes for Trump — the precise quantity he would have wanted to win the state. Now that Trump is again in workplace, he’s utilizing the ability of the federal government to interact in investigations that consultants say have little proof or authorized justification however serve his political goals. University of California, Los Angeles, legislation professor Rick Hasen instructed ProPublica, “The concept that federal officers would seize ballots in an try and show fraud is particularly harmful on this context after we know there is no such thing as a fraud as a result of the Georgia 2020 election has been extensively counted, recounted and investigated.”
Gabbard’s function in pushing the lie of a stolen election matches into her observe document of selling conspiracy theories for Trump. In 2025, Gabbard was the driving power behind a report with the unsubstantiated title “Declassified Evidence of Obama Administration Conspiracy to Subvert President Trump’s 2016 Victory and Presidency.” The precise report didn’t reveal the claims in opposition to Obama. Despite being prepared to push Trump’s agenda previously, Gabbard appeared to have had a falling out with Trump after deviating from the administration’s overseas coverage relating to Iran. Gabbard’s present efforts to pursue Trump’s election conspiracy theories could also be a transfer to regain the president’s favor.
If Gabbard is making an attempt to revive her standing with Trump, utilizing her workplace to assist his false claims in regards to the 2020 election could also be an efficient method to do this. While this transfer could also be politically helpful for Gabbard, it dangers setting a harmful precedent of improper home interference by the director of nationwide intelligence and continues Trump’s use of federal authorities energy to pursue his private targets.
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