Bondi scrambles to explain what Trump meant when he blamed her for Gabbard's role in FBI's Georgia raid
Source: The Independent
Saturday 07 February 2026 16:26 EST
Attorney General Pam Bondi has struggled to explain the confusion over why Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was sent to an FBI raid in Georgia last month. Questions have continued to swirl around why the National Intelligence boss was at the scene at all in Fulton County on January 28, where agents seized ballots and voting information from the 2020 election.
Bondi failed to clarify the situation at a Friday briefing after Trump said that Gabbard was sent “at Pam’s insistence.” The president's comments appeared to contradict Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who earlier said that the intelligence director was “not part of this investigation.”
“There seems to be a little confusion with DNI Gabbard down in Atlanta last week for the Fulton County Search,” a reporter asked Bondi at the briefing. “Originally, this office said that she was not part of the investigation. [Gabbard] put in a letter to Congress that President Trump directed her to do so, and then now, President Trump yesterday said that it was at your insistence that she went down there. So what is the case here?” Bondi did not directly answer the question but replied that she and Gabbard are “inseparable.”
“We are constantly together, we constantly talk. We collaborate as a cabinet; we're all extremely close. Know what each other…what we're doing at all times, pretty much, to keep not only our country safe, but our world safe,” Bondi said. “And she was down there with Deputy Director Andrew Bailey of the FBI, and, I'm not going to talk about any other details of that matter right now, because Georgia is a very important issue to us.” The president said Thursday that Gabbard “took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam’s insistence.”
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