分析员：艾伦·布莱克
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发布时间：2026年2月3日，美国东部时间下午12:50
美国国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德在1月28日联邦调查局执行搜查令后，于佐治亚州富尔顿县选举中心外。
（Elijah Nouvelage/路透社）
上周，特朗普政府在唐纳德·特朗普总统多年来试图质疑2020年大选的努力中，发起了一项非凡的新策略：对佐治亚州富尔顿县的一个选举办公室进行有争议的搜查。
但即便采取了这一历史性举措，其团队仍在努力统一说辞。
特别是特朗普和国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德的不当参与，使得这一情况尤为复杂。
两人似乎都不具备在此事中扮演的恰当角色。而且在这两种情况下，政府都淡化了他们的角色，之后这些说法又被推翻或直接否认。
加巴德
国家情报总监的职责通常是监督美国情报界的各机构并协调其工作，而非执法角色。
但周三在亚特兰大附近，加巴德出现在现场，照片显示她站在一辆装满箱子的卡车里。
从那以后，政府对她的参与程度给出了相互矛盾的解释。
周四，当被美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）问及加巴德为何出现在佐治亚州的选举中心时，特朗普称：“她正在非常努力地确保选举安全。”
但在随后的几天里，司法部副部长托德·布兰奇多次淡化她的参与。
“她恰好出现在亚特兰大，”布兰奇周四表示。
“我不知道这位总监为什么在那里；她并非大陪审团调查的一部分，”他周日在接受CNN达娜·巴什采访时说道。
“首先，她没有参与搜查；她只是在搜查发生的区域，”布兰奇周一晚间告诉福克斯新闻。“她没有参与这项调查。”
这位副部长多次暗示加巴德的出现只是偶然的——她正在处理“选举完整性”问题，但在此次调查中没有扮演更具体的角色。
但这与我们周一了解到的情况难以吻合。
CNN证实，加巴德不仅出现在现场，实际上还让特朗普与联邦调查局特工通了电话。这是一种非常规举动，加剧了人们对政治影响力介入调查的质疑，而特朗普显然对该调查有重大个人利益。（《纽约时报》率先报道了这通电话的消息。）
加巴德在周一晚间发布的一封信中证实，应特朗普的要求，她陪同高级联邦调查局特工并促成了此次通话——同时声称通话中没有特朗普或她本人的任何提问或指示。
这封信是对众议院和参议院情报委员会高层民主党人的情况询问的回应。
“我的到场是应总统的要求，并根据我在法律上的广泛授权，协调、整合和分析与选举安全相关的情报，包括反间谍（CI）、外国及其他恶意影响和网络安全，”加巴德在信中表示。
尽管布兰奇早些时候坚称加巴德“没有参与搜查”，但国家情报总监办公室表示，她“陪同”高级联邦调查局官员“观察联邦调查局人员执行搜查令”。
尽管布兰奇反复声称她“未参与”调查，但从她本人和特朗普的说法来看，她显然扮演着重要角色。
特朗普
加巴德周一晚间的信进一步加剧了特朗普更具问题的角色所发出的混乱信号——布兰奇在周日接受巴什采访时也淡化了这一点。
在特朗普周四表示“你们会看到富尔顿县发生一些有趣的事情”之后，布兰奇鼓励人们不要对此过度解读。
“嗯，仅仅因为他这么说并不意味着他参与其中，”布兰奇告诉巴什。“我不认为他参与了。”
当巴什追问特朗普是否至少接受了简报时，布兰奇回应道：“我不知道。我不清楚总统是否接受了简报。”
他称此次调查“严格保密，这在法律上是必须的”。
“这是一个大陪审团调查，我们将按此程序进行，”布兰奇说。
现在很明显，无论调查如何严格保密，特朗普都已设法介入其中。
加巴德现已明确表示，特朗普指示她出现在搜查现场，并证实他与负责此案的联邦调查局特工进行了交谈。
在周一报道加巴德让特朗普与特工通话后，布兰奇在福克斯新闻中暗示总统与执法部门交谈是正常的。
“总统整个星期都会与执法部门交谈，”布兰奇说。“他与正在努力工作的特工交谈这一事实并不让我感到惊讶，事实上我对此感到高兴。这很棒。”
（总统可能确实经常与执法部门交谈。但考虑到这些特工正在处理一个高度政治敏感的案件——更不用说特朗普曾多次公然施压执法部门以获得他想要的结果——这一说法就有了新的含义。）
因此，特朗普的说法从所谓的“未参与”变成了几天内被证实的一些相当危险的行为——这与他的国家情报总监的情况如出一辙。
The Trump team can’t get its story straight on the president, Gabbard and Fulton County
Analysis by Aaron Blake
27 min ago
PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2026, 12:50 PM ET
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outside the Fulton County elections center in Georgia on January 28, after the FBI executed a search warrant there.
Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters
The Trump administration last week launched an extraordinary new gambit in President Donald Trump’s yearslong effort to sow doubts about the 2020 election: a controversial search of an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia.
But even as it’s undertaken this historic step, it’s struggled mightily to get its story straight.
That’s especially the case with the problematic involvements of both Trump and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Neither of them would seem to have appropriate roles to play in this. And in both cases, the administration downplayed their roles before those claims were later undermined or flatly contradicted.
Gabbard
The director of national intelligence’s role is the most surprising — and confusing.
A DNI’s job is generally to oversee the agencies in the US intelligence community and to coordinate their efforts. It is not a law enforcement role.
But there was Gabbard on Wednesday near Atlanta, pictured on the scene after FBI agents executed a search warrant. There’s a photo of her standing in a truck loaded with boxes.
And ever since then, the administration has given conflicting accounts about how involved she is.
Asked by CNN on Thursday what Gabbard was doing at an election center in Georgia, Trump said, “She’s working very hard on trying to keep the election safe.”
But in the days that followed, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche repeatedly downplayed her involvement.
“She happened to be present in Atlanta,” Blanche said Thursday.
“I don’t know why the director was there; she is not part of the grand jury investigation,” he told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday.
“First of all, she wasn’t at the search; she was in the area where the search took place,” Blanche told Fox News on Monday night. “She’s not part of this investigation.”
The deputy attorney general has repeatedly suggested Gabbard’s presence was more incidental — that she’s working on “election integrity” issues but that she isn’t playing a more specific role in this investigation.
But that’s difficult to square with what we learned Monday.
CNN confirmed that Gabbard wasn’t just on the scene, but she actually put Trump on the phone with FBI agents. That’s a highly unorthodox move that exacerbates questions about political influence in an investigation that Trump has made abundantly clear is of great personal interest. (The news of the phone call was first reported by The New York Times.)
Gabbard in a letter released Monday night confirmed she had accompanied top FBI agents at Trump’s request and facilitated the call — while claiming the conversation included no questions or directives from Trump or her.
The letter came in response to an inquiry about the situation from the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees.
“My presence was requested by the President and executed under my broad statutory authority to coordinate, integrate, and analyze intelligence related to election security, including counterintelligence (CI), foreign and other malign influences and cybersecurity,” Gabbard said in the letter.
Despite Blanche’s insistence earlier in the evening that Gabbard “wasn’t at the search,” the DNI said she “accompanied” top FBI officials “in observing FBI personnel executing that search warrant.”
And despite Blanche’s repeated claims that she’s not “part of” the investigation, it’s pretty clear she’s playing a significant role — by both her own and Trump’s accounts.
Trump
Gabbard’s letter Monday night also adds to the confusing signals about Trump’s even-more-problematic role — which Blanche also downplayed during his interview Sunday with Bash.
After Trump said Thursday, “You’re going to see some interesting things happening” in Fulton County, Blanche encouraged people not to read too much into that.
“Well, just because he said that doesn’t mean that he’s involved,” Blanche told Bash. “I don’t believe he was involved.”
When Bash pressed him on whether Trump had been at least been briefed, Blanche responded: “I don’t know. I’m not around when the president’s briefed or not briefed.”
He called the investigation “tightly held, as it must be under the law.”
“It’s a grand jury investigation, and that’s how we’re proceeding,” Blanche said.
It’s now clear that however tightly the investigation is held, Trump has wormed his way in.
Gabbard has now stated explicitly that Trump directed her to be present at the search, and she’s confirmed that he spoke with FBI agents working on the case.
After it was reported Monday that Gabbard put Trump on the phone with the agents, Blanche suggested on Fox News that it was normal for the president to speak with law enforcement.
“The president talks to law enforcement all week long,” Blanche said. “The fact that he talked with agents working hard doesn’t surprise me, and actually I love it. It’s great.”
(The president might talk to law enforcement frequently. But that takes on a new meaning given these agents are working on a highly politically sensitive case — not to mention Trump’s history of transparently leaning on law enforcement to give him the outcomes he wants.)
So Trump has gone from supposedly not being “involved” to having some pretty dicey actions confirmed, all in the span of a few days — a lot like his director of national intelligence.