President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has located bags of documents connected to alleged corruption in the 2020 election and that the materials will be made public.
The announcement came as Trump addressed his administration during events in Washington, D.C., highlighting a federal crime crackdown and ongoing efforts to encourage negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump described the discovery as significant and asked for a timeline on disclosure.
“And you’ve also found many bags of information. I think they call them burn bags. They’re supposed to be burned, and they didn’t get burned, having to do with how corrupt the 2020 election was. And when will that all come out?” he said.
Gabbard, who is serving as Director of National Intelligence, confirmed that teams working under her office had recovered the materials and are cataloging them.
“Mr. President, I will be the first to brief you once we have that information collected. But you’re right, we are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes in random offices in these bags and in other areas, which again speaks to the intent of those who are trying to hide the truth from the American people and trying to cover up the politicization that was led by people like John Brennan and James Clapper and others that have caused really immeasurable harm to the American people and to our country,” Gabbard said.
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Neither Trump nor Gabbard provided a release date for the records or described specific agencies in possession of the materials.
Trump said the files contain “massive” evidence and indicated that public disclosure is expected once the review is complete.
Gabbard has previously outlined a broad set of inquiries into intelligence-community conduct and election-related issues.
In April, she said her office had opened multiple lines of investigation with a focus on voting systems and election integrity.
“I’ve got a long list of things that we’re investigating. We have the best going after this, election integrity being one of them,” Gabbard said.
She also described concerns about electronic systems used to record and count votes.
“We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of the votes being cast, which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections,” Gabbard said.
In June, Trump used his Truth Social account to urge the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
“Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a “LANDSLIDE!,” Trump wrote.
“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING.”
“A Special Prosecutor must be appointed,” he added. “This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable!”
The White House and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not announce additional details Tuesday about the review process for the newly found materials.
Trump said the records would be released after government procedures are completed. Gabbard said she would brief the President first and emphasized that her teams are continuing to collect and secure documents “tucked away in the back of safes in random offices.”
Tuesday’s remarks add to a series of steps the administration has outlined on election-related matters.
Gabbard has said her office is prioritizing investigations involving alleged politicization within the intelligence community and the resilience of voting systems, while the President has called for national reforms aimed at increasing public confidence in election results, including paper-ballot initiatives.
No timeline for public release of the newly located documents has been set.
Gabbard said she would deliver an initial briefing to the President when the collection phase is complete and additional analysis has been conducted.
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Let’s hope in 2026 President Trump can pull off in all 50 states paper ballots, ridding our elections of easy cheating electronic voting machines and mail in ballots easily stuffed after hours. Let’s get back to what we always did in voting same day in November. Get rid of the Democratic early voting practices and late counting of ballots in many states. One day voting in November will be a great start, winner take all.
More gaslighting. Nothing will be released. They’ll be sitting on her desk, then two months from now we’ll hear “there is nothing to release”. Just like Epstein. Question is what do they not want us looking at right now that is causing them to troll us again?
Gabbard isn’t Bondi or Patel…..she is the sole person in the Trump administration that is actually bringing the heat.
She’s the best ‘Republican’ in Trump’s Cabinet.
It would amuse me if these bags weren’t burned because the bags had some environmental toxins that may have transferred to the paper
When President Trump took office in 2017, he told us that the democRAT was corrupt. When President Trump took office in 2025, we discovered the democRAT was more corrupt than anyone ever imagined.
Still only accusations… and Republican accusations are, as we know, confessions of past actions and intended future activity.
I absolutely believe the 2020 election was stolen. But I do not believe the claim that FBI and DNI files were stored in burn bags that never got burned for five whole years. It’s not just fishy, it’s a whale too big for me to swallow. If they wanted to hide them, burning them would be the best solution, easily blamed on an error by the lowest government worker.
Moreover, in this day and age, who keeps paper files? I retired ten years ago, and all the retained files I had when I left were stored on a company server. Over 10 years of creating documents for a living, I had one desk drawer of paper files. So where were the files manager and/or custodians whose job was to burn files in the burn bags? Who told them not to burn certain bags and why? Even the laziest government workers wouldn’t let burn files pile up for five years! Not buying this.
Out of sight, out of mind. What GS drone is going to take initiative with being directed?
If we accept that many rank and file career agents did not agree with the political appointees at the top who were politicizing and weaponinzing the agencies, then it is not a stretch to believe these documents were not burned but instead saved for the day when the agents could present them to honest leaders.
We will see.
No. We won’t.
unless someone is charged and goes to jail i couldn’t give a bm
This is all Obama. Don’t get distracted by Joe Biden. Obama is the one that needs to go to jail as he started all of this. Joe Biden was simply placed into the oval office by the Obama people, he likely believes he won against all evidence to the contrary.
At last, justice is coming!
the company that manufactured the voting machines that were used even admitted to having geared up a lot of them so they could be manipulated and then when many were found to have been manipulated…..still nothing was done….the supreme court did nothing as they said they have no automatic jurisdiction of national elections as the responsibility for that is on the state legislatures…..meaning if a state’s legislature votes to question the presidential election they must at that point bring a suit with the evidence to the supreme court ……a couple of states did than and with evidence to show there was something amiss at those voting booths and machines…..but the supreme court did nothing as they simply refused the cases…..and there were bundles upon bundles of fraud ballots that were presented but still no case….and over the years there have been people that admitted to defrauding the election but still no case by the supreme court….so this now does not have any markings of a case as the supreme court even with truck loads of evidence will not accept the case…..