Trump gives CIA election intel to the man who tried to overturn 2020 — even as it ‘threatens national security ‘

Donald Trump remains convinced that the 2020 election was rigged. The president has now taken his most drastic step yet, getting the CIA involved in his quest to prove his unsubstantiated claims.

This comes in the wake of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard raiding a county elections office in Georgia. The first questionable aspect of Gabbard’s presence at the site was that her post usually focuses on external threats, much like the CIA. Reports following the raid revealed that the president had personally asked Gabbard to go “observe” the search. The stated goal was to determine whether there were any vulnerabilities or hacks in voting machines. The directive was notably all in vain.

It was therefore no surprise that Trump’s next move in his quest to justify his conduct after losing the 2020 election was to also involve the CIA. Trump has always been particularly bad at accepting when things don’t go his way — a trait that only intensified once he entered politics. He famously claimed he could shoot someone in public and not lose a single vote. His temporary fall from grace shocked many, but perhaps no one more than the president himself.

Those who stood by him, however, were greatly rewarded, with Kurt Olsen chief among them. In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, Olsen was found to have prepared a draft executive order directing the Department of Justice to “take voter action,” and he became part of the network Trump relied on to build an election-denialist infrastructure.

Now back in office, NBC reports that Trump has ordered the CIA and other intelligence agencies to provide Olsen with information related to the 2020 election. A CIA official acknowledged the directive, saying, “The president has asked Mr. Olsen to look at intelligence related to the 2020 election, and the agency is ensuring that he has the access necessary to do his work.”

The White House also confirmed the order, releasing a statement that read, “President Trump has the authority to provide access to classified material to individuals as he deems necessary. The entire Trump administration is working together to ensure the integrity of U.S. elections.” The White House, however, declined to directly address whether Olsen’s focus was on future threats to election integrity or simply another attempt to relitigate the 2020 election.

Washington remains concerned about this path. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia wrote in an email, “Handing the keys to our intelligence agencies to an election denier in pursuit of Donald Trump’s long-disproven conspiracy theories is a dangerous misuse of government power that threatens national security.”

This has long been a core conspiracy for MAGA leadership, but it’s highly likely that many followers have stopped caring. Especially now, when a far more far-reaching conspiracy has been substantiated regarding the Jeffrey Epstein network — powerful people who maintained close social ties with Epstein while he trafficked minors around the world. It is in everyone’s interest that these victims are heard and justice is served. Yet there have still been no convictions, despite the incriminating files that some have tried so hard to dismiss as mere conspiracy.

Trump devoting his energy to uncovering more details about something that, frankly, only he still seems to care about — instead of addressing a child-trafficking network — only underscores one thing: if he truly wanted to pursue powerful pedophiles, he would.