Tulsi Gabbard was in Georgia for FBI Raid

[SamuelTheThird]

Why is the DNI present for this?

[ChicagoTeamster]

1. Because Hegseth and Rubio were busy, Bondi is still redacting Epstein files, and Tulsi was available.

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. What is Putin's interest in the state of Georgia?

[Just Jerome]

3. Every so often

the CEO will send a lackey to observe operations on the factory floor.

[Buddyzbuddy]

4. Those were my thoughts too.

[newdeal2]

15. I think Putin wanted her in the other Georgia

She misread the memo

[MadameButterfly]

5. What FBI raid

Do you have more specifics?

[hatrack]

6. Fulton County - looking for ballot data for the "stolen" 2020 election.

[The Madcap]

7. Don't you mean

Planting data? Wouldn't surprise me at all.

[MadameButterfly]

8. Yeah, I guess they are looking for more ways to re-write history

Nothing is reliable once the Trump administration has meddled with it.

[sop]

10. Is the "stolen" 2020 election a matter of national security? Was Putin involved?

"The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) heads the 17-member U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), acting as the principal advisor to the President, National Security Council, and Homeland Security Council. The DNI manages the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget, sets intelligence priorities, ensures information sharing, and produces timely, objective intelligence to support national security."

Tulsi should be looking for stolen ballot data in Moscow, not Fulton County.

[Botany]

9. Dear Jesus what a criminal cabal ... trying to rewrite history.

How about the 2020 tape of Trump calling Georgia’s Sec. of State (Ratzenberger) to ask him
to break the law by “finding 10,780 votes?”

Russia is getting its goal done of burning America to the ground by installing D. Trump as
President. Killing American citizens in the streets of Minneapolis, murdering 80 + Venezuelans,
tearing down > 1/3 of the White House, having the D o J covering up Trump’s part in an
international child sex trafficking ring, putting the portrait of Robert E Lee up @ West Point,
pardoning the J 6th terrorists to become his ICE goons, and ….

America is in deep trouble.

[kentuck]

11. Did she fly in from the Kremlin?

She has been hidden for what seems like months?

Obviously, Trump has recruited the entire force to prove his lie to be the truth.

[RoeVWade]

12. Testing excuses to directly interfere in future elections?

This administration knows no bounds.

[Takket]

13. I want to see the warrant application

What judge signed off on this and what were they told? The Big Lie was widely reported and its crackpot made up stories debunked. So it’s going to be something any judge would know about.

So I find it hard to believe they just found some clueless judge that they told Chavez stuffed the ballot box and the judge believed them.

So either the judge signed off based on nothing because they believed the Big Lie, or the Feds told some whopper of a new lie that convinced the judge this search was needed.

I’m obviously leaning towards the latter.

Show us the warrant!!!

[Vinca]

14. Trying to get the glow back on her kneepads.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. MaddowBlog-Why did Tulsi Gabbard join an FBI raid tied to Trump's election conspiracy theory?

The director of national intelligence was looking for ways to return to the president’s good graces. She apparently found one in an unexpected place.

There are really only a handful of possible explanations for Tulsi Gabbard showing up in person when the FBI executed a search warrant at the Fulton County elections office.

They’re all pretty bad, though. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-29T19:51:17.132Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-did-tulsi-gabbard-join-an-fbi-raid-tied-to-trumps-election-conspiracy-theory

FBI agents executed a search warrant on Wednesday at the Fulton County elections office near Atlanta, as part of the president’s ongoing crusade related to his 2020 election defeat. The developments were, by any fair measure, ridiculous, though they were made slightly worse by Gabbard’s in-person participation. Reuters reported:

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard visited the site of the search on Wednesday, Reuters witnessed, giving her a highly unusual presence in domestic law enforcement that one former official called unprecedented. Reuters reported that Gabbard last year formed a group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including the Justice Department, that was helping to steer Trump’s drive for retribution against his perceived enemies.

In case there are any lingering doubts about whether it was actually her in Fulton County, there is a photograph of her at the site, which was promoted online by Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Link to tweet

Warner issued a written statement about this, explaining, “There are only two explanations for why the Director of National Intelligence would show up at a federal raid tied to Donald Trump’s obsession with losing the 2020 election. Either Director Gabbard believes there was a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus — in which case she is in clear violation of her obligation under the law to keep the intelligence committees ‘fully and currently informed’ of relevant national security concerns — or she is once again demonstrating her utter lack of fitness for office that she holds by injecting the nonpartisan intelligence community she is supposed to be leading into a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.”

The Democratic senator concluded, “Either is a serious breach of trust that further underscores why she is totally unqualified to hold a position that demands sound judgment, apolitical independence, and a singular focus on keeping Americans safe.”....

For his part, Trump has also not commented publicly, though he did use his social media platform to publish a blizzard of new and conspiratorial items about his 2020 defeat on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, including one that touted Gabbard joining FBI officials on Wednesday.

The DNI is reportedly scheduled to appear at the winter meeting of the National Association of Secretaries of State in Washington on Friday, joining Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi, though it’s not yet clear whether her remarks will include any references to her bizarre appearance in Georgia. Watch this space.