The knives have officially come out for Tulsi Gabbard, and not because she’s done something wrong—on the contrary, she’s ruffling feathers precisely because she’s doing something the establishment doesn’t want talked about.
Gabbard’s involvement in the ongoing scrutiny of the 2020 election in Georgia — including showing up at the Fulton County election hub operation with FBI agents and asserting intelligence concerns about vulnerabilities in election systems — has triggered a coordinated backlash in the media and from political opponents eager to discredit her.
Now, an establishment media outlet – the Wall Street Journal – has floated a ‘scandal’ involving a murky whistleblower complaint and vague claims of “politicization.” That’s no accident — when you start poking into election anomalies that the mainstream has spent years convincing Americans to ignore or dismiss, you threaten a narrative that many political and media elites desperately want to protect.
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But to be sure, the story doesn’t really say what she did or didn’t do:
U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.
The filing of the complaint has prompted a continuing, behind-the-scenes struggle about how to assess and handle it, with the whistleblower’s lawyer accusing Gabbard of stonewalling the complaint. Gabbard’s office rejects that characterization, contending it is navigating a unique set of circumstances and working to resolve the issue.
Then buried deep in the story – paragraph 13, to be exact, there’s this nugget, with my italics for emphasis:
Gabbard answered written questions about the allegations from the inspector general’s office, a senior official at the spy agency said. That prompted the acting inspector general at the time, Tamara Johnson, to determine the allegations specifically about Gabbard weren’t credible, the official said. Johnson remains employed at the agency, which didn’t make her available for an interview.
It turned out that there was no delay in the production of the “security guidance” from DNI Gabbard regarding the handling of the report. The whistleblower’s complaint is currently under review by the Congressional Intelligence Committees, and Gabbard has provided the necessary documentation:
Contrary to the blatantly false and slanderous accusations being made against me by Members of Congress and their friends in the propaganda media, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has and will continue to take action under my statutory authorities to secure our… pic.twitter.com/eX4Kdnp8oU
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) February 3, 2026
Before this alleged “scandal” broke, we had the very disreputable establishment propaganda outlet The Washington Post launch the “why was Gabbard there at the scene” narrative:
There are “only two explanations” for why Gabbard was in Fulton County on Wednesday, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia) said at the hearing.
One is that she believes there’s a “legitimate foreign intelligence nexus,” he said, in which case Gabbard “violated her legal obligation to keep the intelligence committees fully and currently informed,” or she is attempting to insert the intelligence community into what Warner called “a domestic political stunt designed to legitimize conspiracy theories that undermine our democracy.’’
Warner, the partisan Democrat who has spent his entire political career doing nothing but attacking Republicans. So of course the Post would go to him.
The New York Times stirred the propaganda pot further with a ‘report’ claiming that President Trump had praised the agents involved in the operation in Fulton County:
By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary. Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as President Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud, but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.
What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.
Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, met with some of the same F.B.I. agents, members of the bureau’s field office in Atlanta, which is conducting the election inquiry, three people with knowledge of the meeting said. They could not say why Ms. Gabbard, who also appeared on site at the search, was there, but her continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies does not include on-site involvement in criminal investigative work.
What occurred during the meeting was even further outside the bounds of normal law enforcement procedure. Ms. Gabbard used her cellphone to call Mr. Trump, who did not initially pick up but called back shortly after, the people said.
You want else was “extraordinary by any measure”? The fact that Fulton County election officials admitted in December that 315,000 ballots were never properly signed by poll workers, which is a legal requirement for them to be counted (they were counted anyway).
This isn’t just a personal smear campaign. It’s an establishment panic attack — and not because Gabbard is doing something illegal, but because she’s pushing into territory that those in power have long declared off-limits or “debunked.” The moment an official refuses to play along with the status quo and starts asking real questions, the narrative machine kicks into overdrive.
And this is the same garbage playbook the deep state used against President Trump during his first term, if you recall (and I know you do).
So far, none of the attacks on Tulsi Gabbard rise to the level of forcing her out. And that’s precisely the point. What we’re watching isn’t a knockout punch — it’s a slow, calculated pressure campaign. And The New York Times may have inadvertently revealed the long game.
The real fear isn’t Gabbard herself. It’s what she’s getting close to.
There is evidence — still buried in the backrooms of Fulton County and other key jurisdictions — tied to the 2020 election. Evidence connected to large batches of Biden ballots that appeared after polls closed, anomalies that were waved away before anyone was allowed to seriously inspect them. The unanswered question has never been whether those records exist. It’s how to keep them from ever being exposed to public scrutiny.
That’s where the strategy comes in.
If you can’t legally stop the investigation, you delegitimize the investigator. You flood the zone with insinuations. You leak selectively. You suggest impropriety without ever proving it. You make the person radioactive enough that institutions recoil — not because she’s wrong, but because she’s inconvenient.
This isn’t about evidence being disproven. It’s about ensuring it never sees daylight.
If there were truly nothing to hide, none of this would be necessary. The fact that the knives are out — carefully, methodically — suggests the opposite. The deeper Gabbard gets, the louder the machine whirs. And the harder it works to make sure certain questions are never fully asked, let alone answered.
One final thought. Trump appeared on Dan Bongino’s first show back on the air Tuesday, and teased “something big” is coming from the Fulton County raid. Stay tuned.
