‘Anti-Trump FBI Agent’ Broke Protocol To Spearhead Lawfare

A “prolific anti-Trump FBI agent” allegedly broke protocol in order to open and push the FBI’s initial investigation into President Donald Trump and the 2020 election, according to whistleblower records released by Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Jonson, R-Wis., Thursday.

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, authored 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.

“Thibault took this action despite being unauthorized to open criminal investigations in his ASAC role,” a joint press release from the senators stated. They also said the Justice Department and FBI had a “plot to pin Trump.”

The investigation was then advanced by Justice Department Public Integrity Sector official Richard Pilger, former head of the Election Crimes Branch, who was also the subject of a Grassley report stating he “undermined the department’s election-related efforts.”

Pilger’s authorization allowed the Justice Department to advance a full criminal and grand jury investigation.

Grassley warned former Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 that both Thibault and Pilger were “deeply involved in the decisions to open and pursue election-related investigations against President Trump.”

In a 2022 letter to Garland and former FBI Director Christopher Wray, Grassley stated that Thibault “likely violated several federal regulations and Department guidelines designed
to prevent political bias from infecting FBI matters” and had “demonstrated a pattern of active public partisanship.”

The letter noted multiple public instances of Thibault’s animosity toward Trump, including reposting a Lincoln Project post with the statement, “Donald Trump is a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man.”

Grassley mentioned the emails in his opening statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as director of the FBI, going through a timeline of Thibault’s push to open an investigation — for which he was not authorized — and to include Trump.

According to emails released by Grassley and Johnson, Thibault sent the “opening language” that turned into the Jack Smith elector case. He subsequently sent an email to D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutor John Crabb stating, “I had a discussion with the case team and we believe there to be predication to include former President of the United States Donald J. Trump as a predicated subject.”

After getting Trump and others added as criminal subjects of the case, Thibault responded in another email, “Perfect.”

The document for including Trump was based on information from “liberal nonprofit American Oversight,” whistleblowers told Grassley in late 2022, 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.”

Grassley demanded the production of all records in how this case came to be in the Patel hearing Thursday.

The Thibault-Pilger duo snowballed into the oversight of lawfare artist Jack Smith — the man responsible for going after Trump in two bogus 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. But Smith angrily released a report on his case, attempting to claim that he would have been successful in a prosecution had Trump not been elected.

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.