Georgia Democrats call for inquiry into Gabbard’s presence at Fulton county search

Georgia’s Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, this morning, inquiring into the presence of Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, at the scene last week of an FBI seizure of Fulton county election records from 2020.The letter from Senator Raphael Warnock and representatives Lucy McBath and Nikema Williams asks “whether the Trump administration is investigating a legitimate foreign intelligence nexus, which would legally require immediate congressional briefing”. The group requested a briefing from the Department of Justice “concerning this activity and its related investigation by February 13, 2026”.Williams serves on the House oversight and investigations subcommittee. McBath is the ranking Democratic member on the House subcommittee on crime and federal government surveillance. Both represent part of Fulton county.The letter comes after the FBI executed a criminal search warrant at the county’s election offices on 28 January to seize almost 700 boxes of 2020 election documentation. The lawmakers note that “unusually, the warrant was filed by the US attorney for the eastern district of Missouri and follows the reported firing of the Atlanta FBI special agent in charge Paul Brown after expressing concern about this search”.The lawmakers also expressed concern about Donald Trump’s repeated – and repeatedly refuted – claims that the 2020 election in Georgia was “rigged”, as he again said in Davos at the World Economic Forum last month. “People will soon be prosecuted,” Trump said last month, referring to the 2020 election.“We are deeply concerned that President Trump’s consistent spreading of misinformation and dangerous conspiracy theories about the 2020 election fundamentally undermines the electoral process, endangers election workers, and erodes public trust in our democracy,” the lawmakers wrote. “This unprecedented seizure only heightens those concerns.”