Politics
JUST IN: Jack Smith Caught Red-Handed
Jack Smith’s J6 case against President Donald Trump may never have gotten off the ground if it weren’t for some extracurricular help he received from the Biden White House, according to a new letter from two Republican U.S. senators.
Smith, the former special counsel and ex-prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department, maintained throughout Trump’s two federal trials that he was an impartial enforcer of the law, unmoored from partisan vendettas or motivations. However, that apparently didn’t stop him from accepting help from President Joe Biden’s official counsel, Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote in a letter sent this week to FBI Director Kash Patel and U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.
According to the letter, it was the White House Counsel’s Office that obtained the cell phone records of Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence and passed them along to Smith for “Arctic Frost,” the prosecutor’s nascent investigation into the January 6th, 2021 riots at the Capitol.
Whistleblowers close to Smith’s investigation told the lawmakers that Smith and other anti-Trump FBI members participated in the exchange. Both men urged Patel and Bondi to comply with their demands for further information.
“Overall, these newly disclosed emails show the extensive collaboration between and among select FBI agents from the Washington Field Office and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Washington D.C. to plan, approve and execute Arctic Frost,” Grassley and Johnson wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Just The News. “The emails also provide further support that ASAC Thibault played a central role in advancing its approval to a full field criminal investigation when other agents had concerns the supporting evidence only allowed for a preliminary investigation.”
“Lastly, the emails illustrate the Biden White House’s personal involvement in providing former President Trump and former Vice President Pence’s phones to the FBI at their request when neither of them was a subject of the investigation at that point in time,” they added.
Sens. Grassley and Johnson, the latter of whom is the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said they had received emails from whistleblowers indicating that the U.S. Attorney’s Office Criminal Chief John Crabb contacted Biden’s then-Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su at the White House on May 2nd, 2022 and copied Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault.
“Jonathan, Would you please coordinate with Tim Thibault (who’s copied on this email) about picking up the telephones,” Crabb wrote.
“Thanks John. Tim, it is good to meet you, and please let me know what works for you in terms of timing the next couple days,” Su replied.
Two days later, the FBI had collected Trump and Pence’s government-issued phones from Biden officials. This occurred despite Trump not yet being a target of the “Arctic Frost” probe.
“In order to conduct our constitutional oversight responsibilities, and to determine who later added former President Trump as a criminal subject to the case, we reiterate our request for your offices to produce all DOJ and FBI records in the Arctic Frost investigation,” the lawmakers wrote while asking for all pertinent documents to be turned over by April 21st.
