In a wide-ranging and provocative new interview with Glenn Beck, former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard alleged that senior intelligence officials deliberately manipulated classified information to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory and his subsequent presidency. Gabbard, who previously served as a Democrat from Hawaii, is now positioning herself as a whistleblower from within the national security establishment—calling for full declassification of intelligence documents and accountability for what she describes as a “subversion of the will of the American people.”
Referencing recently released documents related to the Russia investigation, Gabbard accused former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper of knowingly using the discredited Steele dossier as the foundation for an intelligence assessment presented to President Obama, Congress, and the public. According to Gabbard, key dissenters within the intelligence community were ignored, while damaging documents were hidden in “burn bags” and secret FBI rooms.
Gabbard said, “We have whistleblowers coming forward with their own documentation of their protests and their unwillingness to go along with this.”
Gabbard also claimed that the media’s silence on these disclosures is not accidental, but a sign of complicity, claiming that the is media not covering the story because it “exposes their complicity in pushing this lie and this hoax” from day one.
The interview marks one of Gabbard’s strongest alignments yet with Trump-aligned narratives about the so-called “deep state.” She says her goal is truth and transparency, not partisanship, and frames the revelations as a constitutional crisis that threatens the foundation of U.S. democracy.
She also suggested that top intelligence officials actively blocked the release of exonerating documents during Trump’s first term. According to Gabbard, then-CIA Director Gina Haspel refused to declassify key files, delaying what she calls an overdue reckoning with “deep staters” who weaponized intelligence for political purposes.
In one of the more startling exchanges, Gabbard addressed reports that Trump-aligned investigator Kash Patel found “thousands” of sensitive documents buried in burn bags inside secret FBI rooms.
While Gabbard framed her commentary as a patriotic call for accountability, her remarks veered into conspiratorial territory. She alleged that top intelligence officials conspired with President Obama to fabricate an assessment using discredited material, that whistleblowers are now coming forward with evidence hidden in burn bags, and that media silence amounts to complicity. She also suggested that those she deems responsible are now “lawyering up” or scrubbing their social media presence in anticipation of a reckoning.
Gabbard concluded the interview with a religious appeal, claiming that “God’s love” will guide the country through what she described as a near-collapse of constitutional integrity.
Her assertions, however, mirror long-running—and largely debunked—narratives pushed by far-right media and figures aligned with Donald Trump. Despite offering no new verifiable evidence, Gabbard has increasingly embraced these themes in recent months, positioning herself as a truth-teller challenging a vast and shadowy “deep state.”
For critics, the interview was the latest sign that Gabbard—once a rising star in Democratic politics—has now fully embraced a worldview untethered from established facts, where faith and grievance replace evidence and accountability.
