Trump Warns Democrats What Bill Pulte Is About to Uncover at the DNI

Tulsi Gabbard personally showed up at an FBI raid on Fulton County's election office in January – and hauled away 700 boxes of 2020 ballots.

Now Trump has installed a new acting DNI, and he just told reporters exactly what Bill Pulte is going to do with the intelligence apparatus Gabbard left behind.

What Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday has Democrats in full panic mode.

Trump Names His Mission for the New DNI

President Trump named Pulte – director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency – as acting Director of National Intelligence on Tuesday, replacing Gabbard who announced her resignation in May.

When a reporter pressed Trump on Pulte's qualifications, Trump didn't defend his résumé.

He telegraphed his mission.

"He's a very smart guy," Trump said, "and he may find out some things about the rigged elections, etcetera, etcetera."

Trump added that Pulte would be "very effective for a short period of time" – acknowledging the appointment is temporary – but made clear the window matters.

"I think he'd like to do it," Trump said. "I'd like to. I think he wants to do it very much."

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The Left Already Knows What's Coming

Democrats aren't pretending this is about normal intelligence oversight.

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, immediately warned that Pulte's appointment sharpened his fear that Trump and his allies will use the DNI's office to target the fall midterms.

That's the tell. Warner isn't worried about foreign adversaries. He's worried about what Pulte finds at home.

Gabbard already laid the groundwork. In January, she was personally on the scene in Union City, Georgia, as FBI agents executed a search warrant on the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center – seizing 700 boxes of ballots and 2020 election records. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed a federal judge found probable cause before agents moved in.

Pulte inherits that investigation.

Pulte Is Exactly What This Moment Needs

The left is screaming that Pulte has no intelligence experience. That's the point.

Career intelligence officials spent years protecting the same system Trump says was weaponized against him. Gabbard tried to crack it open with the Fulton County raid – and the resistance was immediate. The FBI special agent in charge of the Atlanta field office was reportedly forced out just days before the search after refusing to participate.

Pulte isn't coming in to manage the bureaucracy. He's coming in to shake it.

At the FHFA, Pulte went after Trump's political enemies without flinching – launching fraud investigations that drew lawsuits from Democrats and hand-wringing from Senate Republicans who called him an "incendiary attack dog."

Good. The same dogs who howl now howled when Gabbard showed up in Georgia.

The Democrats had six years to explain what happened in 2020. They sued, they screamed, they called every question a threat to democracy. But they've never let anyone actually look.

Pulte now has the keys. Trump just handed them to him in the Oval Office, on camera, in front of the entire country.

Sources:

• Zachary B. Wolf, "Trump says he wants Bill Pulte to 'start the process' of shrinking intelligence office," CBS News, June 4, 2026.
• "Trump Appoints Ally Bill Pulte as Acting US Intelligence Director," Reuters via U.S. News & World Report, June 2, 2026.
• Beatrice Peterson, Oren Oppenheim, and Ivan Pereira, "DNI Gabbard's Role in Trump Election Probe Under Scrutiny," ABC News, January 30, 2026.
• "Fulton County Official Slams 2020 Ballot Seizure as FBI Director Says There Was 'Probable Cause,'" ABC News, January 30, 2026.