Senators To National Archives: Turn Over Records From Biden Admin’s Get-Trump Lawfare
By: Brianna Lyman
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Republican Sens. Ron Johnson, Wis., and Chuck Grassley, Iowa, sent a formal letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requesting additional government records related to the Biden administration's role in the "election interference" case targeting then-former President Donald Trump.
The letter, sent April 30, to NARA Acting General Counsel Hannah Bergman and Acting Inspector General William C. Brown details how documents already obtained by Grassley and Johnson "show a politically-driven conspiracy that began at the hands of a group of anti-Trump FBI officials who worked closely with Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors in an investigation known as 'Arctic Frost.'" As the letter notes, "[t]hat investigation ultimately became Jack Smith's elector case against President Trump."
The letter sent by Johnson and Grassley requests additional records and communications from the Biden White House that pertain to the "election interference case that began as" Arctic Frost and the investigation into Trump's "alleged mishandling of classified information," as well as all NARA records that refer or relate to "Arctic Frost and the classified document investigation."
"[B]ecause many of the DOJ, FBI and Biden White House personnel who were involved in Arctic Frost were also involved in the Biden administration's classified document case against President Trump, we are also requesting records pertaining to that matter as part of our investigation," the letter reads.
Arctic Frost was the term used inside the FBI to describe the investigation into Trump opened in 2022, according to Fox News. Sources reportedly told Fox News Digital that former FBI agent Timothy Thibault "took the action to open the investigation and involve Trump," even though he was "unauthorized to open criminal investigations in his role." Fox News also reported in March that the Biden White House provided Trump and Vice President Mike Pence's government cellphones to the FBI as part of the probe. However, as Johnson and Grassley point out in their letter to NARA, this was done even though Trump "was not yet a subject of the investigation."
Similar political motivations were on display in the Biden administration's attempt to jail Trump over retention of classified documents, as The Federalist's Margot Cleveland explained nearly three years ago.
As Cleveland noted, the Presidential Records Act "provides that documents created or received by the president or his immediate staff" must be preserved as "presidential records" and belong to the United States.NARA alleged that Trump had certain documents that qualified as "presidential records" and coordinated with Trump's representatives to retrieve 15 boxes of presidential papers, which then-Archivist David Ferriero said NARA had retrieved by February 2022.
But NARA "believ[ed] that the former White House was stonewalling and continued to possess unauthorized material," a DOJ leaker reportedly told Newsweek months later. According to leaks fed to The Washington Post in February 2022, "archives officials asked the Justice Department to look into the matter."
"By March 2022, NARA was reportedly in '"consultation" with the Justice Department,' and by April 7, 2022, according to leaks to the Post, the DOJ had launched an investigation into Trump related to the 15 boxes of material retrieved by NARA," Cleveland wrote. "Further leaks revealed that the DOJ by springtime had issued a subpoena to Trump purporting to seek 'additional documents that it believed may have been in his possession.'"
Once a grand jury started reviewing the case against Trump" under the apparent auspices of a violation of the Presidential Records Act," Cleveland explained, the DOJ laid the groundwork for the Biden administration to try and ensnare the then-former president on trumped-up obstruction of justice charges.
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"Unauthorized to open an criminal investigations in his role."? So the whole thing was a farce and nothing more than election interference.
Isn't that a criminal offense?
How much do you want to bet that Thibault never gets convicted in a DC Court?
You've already seen it depends on WHO committed the offense. Democrats do it...nothing. Republicans do it...BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars wasted and years in court.
It should depend on exactly what is in the records and if NRA provides ALL the records. But I think you're correct, it will result in nothing but a dark stain on an already heavily tarnished reputation of Democrats.
Let us hope that this time Pam Bondi won't be intimidated by charges of "retribution," and simply go after those who broke the law. I'd also like to know what will be done with FBI officials who investigated Catholics.
It should depend on exactly what is in the records and if NRA provides ALL the records. But I think you're correct, it will result in nothing but a dark stain on an already heavily tarnished reputation of Democrats.
It is un-American for jurors to blatantly issue verdicts based on a hatred for Trump.
As long as she is following laws and regulations there should be no fear of that. But then again we have seen Democrats fabricate nonsense to get their "retribution".
Well, we never said those people were smart. Look how many bought into the "Russia Collusion" hoax. Now with this, it appears the Classified Documents case is falling apart just as fast.
It is ironic that they use the term retribution. It is an admission that they actually did dirty & unlawful things.
Well, we never said those people were smart. Look how many bought into the "Russia Collusion" hoax. Now with this, it appears the Classified Documents case is falling apart just as fast.
They do fit the definition of indoctrinated.
And like children they feel the need to "get back at them".
So the concern seems to be that investigating crime might be politically motivated?
The concern is not that the president actually committed crimes. That’s cool. We’re just supposed to be mad that his crimes were investigated.
None have bee proven after almost a decade of endless "investigations".
LOLWhut? He was literally convicted of 34 felonies in a court of law. The only reason his federal cases where dropped is because it was going to be impossible to prosecute him as president.
You mean the 34 MISDEMEANORS that were past their Statute of Limitations presided over by a anti-Trump judge?
Get serious.
Keep telling yourself that. They were dropped because there was nothing to them. Just like everything else.
Actually, I think you need to get serious.[✘]