Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Senate Judiciary Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are releasing legally protected whistleblower disclosures that prove the genesis of the federal election interference case brought against former President Donald Trump. These records reveal a prolific anti-Trump FBI agent who acted outside of established protocol for opening cases.

Internal FBI emails and predicating documents provided to Grassley and released jointly by the two senators show Timothy Thibault, an Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) who was fired from the Bureau after Grassley exposed his public anti-Trump bias, authored the initial language for the case against Trump regarding the 2020 presidential election. Thibault took this action despite being unauthorized to open criminal cases. This led to the ensuing investigation codenamed “Arctic Frost.”