According to journalist records that Sens. a “prolific anti-Trump FBI agent” reportedly broke process to start and advance the FBI’s original research into President Donald Trump and the 2020 vote Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Jonson, R-Wis., Thursday.
The initial language for” Arctic Frost,” the investigation that would become former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawfare case against Trump over the 2020 election, was written by former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge ( ASAC ) Timothy Thibault, who was fired for violating the Hatch Act after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump statements.
In a joint press release from the senators, it was stated that” Thibault took this action despite being prohibited from starting criminal investigations in his ASAC part.” Additionally, they claimed that the Justice Department and FBI had a “plot to button Trump”
Previous head of the Election Crimes Branch Richard Pilger, who was also the issue of a Grassley statement claiming he “undermined the district’s efforts in the area of election-related matters, advanced the investigation.”
With Pilger’s permission, the Justice Department was able to launch a full fugitive and grand jury analysis.
In 2022, Grassley warned former Attorney General Merrick Garland that both Thibault and Pilger were “deeply involved in the decisions to launch and follow election-related studies against President Trump.”
Grassley claimed in a letter from 2022 to Garland and previous FBI Director Christopher Wray that Thibault “probably broke some federal laws and Department guidelines designed to be violated.”
to avoid political bias from killing FBI issues” and had “demonstrated a pattern of effective people partisanship”.
The letter noted many common instances of Thibault’s animosity toward Trump, including reposting a Lincoln Project post with the statement,” Donald Trump is a physiologically broken, embittered, and greatly disappointed man”.
Grassley mentioned the letters in his opening speech at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding the election of Kash Patel to lead the FBI, going over Thibault’s plan of action to launch an investigation for which he was not authorized, and including Trump in his opening speech.
Grassley and Johnson’s emails claimed Thibault” sent the opening speech” that led to the elector case involving Jack Smith. In response, he sent an email to John Crabb, the counsel for the D. C. U. S. Attorney’s Office, stating that” I had a conversation with the event team and we believe there is supposition including former US President Donald J. Trump as a based subject.”
After getting Trump and others added as criminal subjects of the case, Thibault responded in another email,” Perfect”.
According to whistleblowers who wrote to Grassley in late 2022, the document’s inclusion of Trump was based on “liberal nonprofit American Oversight,” adding that Thibault and Pilger later “removed or watered-down material connected to the aforementioned left-wing entities that existed in previous versions and recommended that a full investigation— not a preliminary investigation — be approved.
In the Patel hearing on Thursday, Grassley demanded the production of all records regarding how this case came to be.
The Thibault-Pilger duo sprang into lawfare artist Jack Smith’s control, who was in charge of prosecuting Trump in two fictitious cases.
This particular case, regarding whether Trump or other officials attempted to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power on Jan. 6, 2021, fizzled out after Trump’s election. However, Smith furiously released a report on his case, making the claim that if Trump had not been elected, he would have been successful in a prosecution.
In the very same report, he explained why no one had actually been charged for “insurrection” — the buzzword of the corporate media for four years. The answer: Because nothing that happened on Jan. 6 could come remotely close to the legal requirement for insurrection.
Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered issues of culture and education for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a Publius Fellow at the 2022 Claremont Institute and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.
