{"id":69571,"date":"2026-03-20T14:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/gabbard-testimony-on-puerto-rico-voting-machines-raises-questions-about-role-of-venezuela-conspiracy-theory\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:56:55","slug":"gabbard-testimony-on-puerto-rico-voting-machines-raises-questions-about-role-of-venezuela-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/gabbard-testimony-on-puerto-rico-voting-machines-raises-questions-about-role-of-venezuela-conspiracy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabbard testimony on Puerto Rico voting machines raises questions about role of Venezuela conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National intelligence director said voting machine seizure was requested by US attorney in Puerto Rico \u2013 who\u2019s been trying to revive 2020 election conspiracy theory<\/p>\n<p>When the US director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, testified on Thursday that her office seized voting machines from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/puerto-rico\">Puerto Rico<\/a>, she said it was at the request of the office of the US attorney in Puerto Rico. Left unsaid was that the prosecutor, as the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/21\/trump-doj-venezuela-2020-election\">previously reported<\/a>, has been the center of a push by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> supporters to revive a long discredited conspiracy theory purporting to link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/venezuela\">Venezuela<\/a> to Trump\u2019s 2020 electoral defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, the conspiracy theory maintains, controlled electronic voting machines worldwide and remotely manipulated results in 2020 to deprive Trump of a presidential victory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/puerto-rico-voting-machines-trump-2020-election-loss-venezuela\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National intelligence director said voting machine seizure was requested by US attorney in Puerto Rico \u2013 who\u2019s been trying to revive 2020 election conspiracy theory When the US director of national intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, testified on Thursday that her office seized voting machines from Puerto Rico, she said it was at the request of &#8230; <a title=\"Gabbard testimony on Puerto Rico voting machines raises questions about role of Venezuela conspiracy theory\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/gabbard-testimony-on-puerto-rico-voting-machines-raises-questions-about-role-of-venezuela-conspiracy-theory\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gabbard testimony on Puerto Rico voting machines raises questions about role of Venezuela conspiracy theory\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}