Trump offers contradictory account of Tulsi Gabbard presence at FBI raid in Georgia

Shifting explanations of Gabbard's presence at election center intensifies scrutiny of role she played in operation

Donald Trump on Thursday offered a new and shifting account of why Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was present last week at an FBI raid of an election center in Georgia, saying she went at the urging of the attorney general Pam Bondi.

She took a lot of heat two days ago because she went in at Pam's insistence," the US president said at the National Prayer Breakfast, a high-profile event of political and religious leaders. She went in and she looked at votes that wanted to be checked out from Georgia."