Trump Flat Out Says He Doesn’t Know Why Tulsi Gabbard Was in Georgia
President Donald Trump says he has no clue why Tulsi Gabbard was spotted lurking around a federal raid at the election office in Fulton County, Georgia—but whatever the reason, it had to do with China!
During an exclusive interview Wednesday, NBC News’s Tom Llamas asked Trump point-blank why the director of national intelligence was present at the raid in Georgia.
“Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?” Llamas asked.
“I don’t know, but you know, uh, a lot of the cheating comes from, it’s international cheating,” Trump said. “You have people—they say—from China trying to, let me ask you, do you think China tries to influence our election?”
“We know that foreign governments try to influence a lot of things in this country,” Llamas replied.
“Well therefore, she’s foreign governments,” Trump said.
Reporter: Why is Tulsi Gabbard there?
— Acyn (@Acyn) February 4, 2026
Trump: I don't know, but a lot of the cheating comes from—it’s international cheating. Do you think do you think China tries to influence our election?
Reporter: We know that foreign governments try to influence a lot of things in this… pic.twitter.com/O4pbVLoJ5J
As per usual, it’s not clear whether the president was simply playing dumb or whether he’s actually clueless. But he used his garbled answer as a jumping-off point to boost long-debunked claims about election interference. However, a U.S. intelligence report released in 2021 resoundingly dispelled Trump’s and former officials’ repeated claims that China—not Russia—was the biggest threat to election integrity in 2020.
Last week, White House officials spilled that Gabbard has spent months leading an investigation into Trump’s baseless claims about the results of the 2020 presidential election. Gabbard has reportedly regularly briefed Trump and his chief of staff Susie Wiles, as well as other well-known election deniers Cleta Mitchell, a far-right activist with the ear of the president, and Kurt Olsen, a former lawyer for the Trump campaign who helped mount the “Stop the Steal” lawsuits.