Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shared FBI whistleblower records on Thursday that revealed an anti-Trump agent was behind former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 case against President Donald Trump.
Grassley first revealed the existence of the whistleblower on Thursday, during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing for President Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel.
An anti-Trump FBI agent was responsible for opening Smith’s case against President Donald Trump, according to internal Federal Bureau of Investigation emails shared with Sen. Grassley by a DOJ whistleblower, obtained by Fox News.
The correspondence shows the whistleblower alleging the anti-Trump agent broke protocol and played a crucial role in opening and advancing the FBI’s initial probe into the 2020 election by connecting Trump to the investigation without sufficient predication.
The investigation into President Trump, which the FBI opened on April 13, 2022, was known inside the bureau as “Arctic Frost,” according to documents shared with Fox News by Sen. Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI).
The senators say these documents prove that the source of Smith’s case against Trump started with FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault — who was later fired from the bureau after violating the Hatch Act.