Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She's Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies

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Previously titled “Tulsi Gabbard on Russiagate Hoax Evidence and How She’s Reforming Politicized Intelligence Agencies” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 6, 2026

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Who is Tulsi Gabbard and what is her role as Director of National Intelligence?

Chamath Palihapitiya 0:01
From Democratic congresswoman to staunch Trump supporter.
David Sacks 0:04
Both loved and heavily criticized for her independent thinking. She won't be bought, she won't be bullied.
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:10
The director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Gabbard 0:15
It's just BS. I've always been a very fiercely independent-minded person. I know exactly what I need to do here and how deep the rot is within the intelligence community that has to be rooted out.
Unknown 0:31
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Tulsi Gabbard.
Unknown 0:45
Hello. Nice to see you Tulsi. Thanks for coming.
Tulsi Gabbard 0:47
Yeah.
Unknown 0:52
Yeah.
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:54
Thank you for being here.
Tulsi Gabbard 0:54
Thank you. Aloha, everybody.
Chamath Palihapitiya 0:57
Aloha. Um we were all clamoring to kind of frame this and then Zack said, I really just need to do the kickoff because he really wanted to tee this up. So I'm gonna seed my responsibility in introducing you because everybody knows who you are. But David just there's just too much red meat. David's been frothing. Sulsi doesn't need a big introduction, but everyone knows she's a director of national intelligence. And um in the words of President Trump is the hottest member of the administration. I think he means in the the sense of having released the biggest news story of the year. And specifically, files, uh you declassified and released a series of files related to the whole Russia-Gate hoax, and many of the documents are just stunning.
Chamath Palihapitiya 1:45
I'll I'll let you speak. But I think you know there's still maybe a few holdouts out there in the world, not that many, who still don't know. Who are you looking at
Tulsi Gabbard 1:52
right now? Who are you talking about?

What evidence does Tulsi reveal about the Russiagate hoax and how was intelligence politicized?

Tulsi Gabbard 1:54
No one in
Chamath Palihapitiya 1:55
particular, but uh who don't seem to understand what this Russia gate hoax was about. Uh can you just maybe this is the place to start that we can drill into some of the details, but just at a very high level, what exactly happened? I mean, I think we saw for years there were all these accusations that somehow that that Trump was a agent of Putin of Russia. Was that all just made up and who made it up? How did that happen?
Tulsi Gabbard 2:18
Yeah, I think just just setting the baseline of like why should you care? Why should people at home care about this? And this really speaks to the power of the intelligence community and the power of quote unquote uh intelligence. Is that as you know these these headlines were churning out about you know Trump is a Putin puppet or he is colluding with Putin in order to get elected. We're going back to the twenty sixteen election here. You know, if you're just watching the headlines from home, you Gotta believe that there's some credibility here, that there's some intelligence that's actually driving this. And that really is the significance of the documents that we uncovered, uh, declassified, and released that shows how intelligence and information can be actually manipulated intentionally, so that it shows something that is not reflective of the truth at all, uh, and how it
Tulsi Gabbard 3:14
Can be done in a deeply impactful way. Politicizing it in what we essentially saw throughout President Trump's candidacy in twenty sixstine. And throughout his four years in office, uh, the documents we uncovered really served as the foundation for the weapon that was used to undermine his presidency, to try to undermine the outcome of that twenty sixteen election and really uh usurp the will and the voices of the people who elected Donald Trump. So I'll try to run through this timeline uh in the top line. Just to paint the picture of, as you asked, David, like where and how did this start? When we go back to that 2016 campaign. President Trump went through what was a very crowded primary at the time.
Tulsi Gabbard 4:01
Almost no one thought that he could win. He became the Republican nominee. going up against Hillary Clinton and during that time Hillary Clinton kind of seeded the um allegation that there was some collusion happening between Trump uh and Putin and Russia, that Putin was somehow trying to get Trump elected. What we saw then play out is now known as So what
Chamath Palihapitiya 4:24
does it mean she seeded? How did wh what does that mean?
Tulsi Gabbard 4:26
There there were a lot of different ways that that occurred. If you go and look at some of the documents that the FBI declassified, that Durham uncovered is now known as the Durham Annex.

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