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Report: Gabbard Investigated Puerto Rico Voting Machines

Was the Puerto Rico voting machine seizure a wasteful abuse of power or a legitimate probe into election security risks tied to the 2020 election?

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Report: Gabbard Investigated Puerto Rico Voting Machines

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Above: U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 9, 2025. Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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Pro-Trump narrative

A secret team seized rigged Puerto Rico voting machines, which are now safely in DNI Tulsi Gabbard's hands. In the 2024 elections, 70% of polling stations failed to transmit results despite $1.3 million spent on Dominion machines and Claro modems. ODNI found insecure software and cellular systems that left machines highly vulnerable to exploitation — echoing 2020 Smartmatic/Dominion weaknesses and concerns over Maduro-linked interference from Venezuela — underscoring why Gabbard’s probe is essential to protecting U.S. elections and pursuing 2020 accountability.

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Anti-Trump narrative

Gabbard's Puerto Rico probe was a wasteful and unprecedented abuse of power, driven by Trump’s debunked 2020 fraud claims. Her team seized voting machines and data seeking Venezuelan or Maduro-linked interference — finding nothing — while overstepping ODNI's authority. The operation echoes the widely discredited Smartmatic and Dominion theories, squanders taxpayer money, intimidates election officials, and turns a routine forensic review into a political theater that undermines trust in U.S. democracy.

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