In a fiery post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump called on Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel to crack down on the deep state hacks who remain within the bureau, saying that it is high time the various wrongdoers involved in schemes like Operation Arctic Frost face consequences.
As background, Arctic Frost was an operation in which the FBI spied on conservatives who questioned the outcome of the 2020 election, using relationships with telecom companies to spy on the phones of prominent conservatives involving legislators, attorneys general, and even political commentators like Charlie Kirk.
Commenting on the weaponization of the FBI against even sitting legislators, a seeming breach of the law and obviously unjust use of law enforcement resources, Sen. Schmitt said that “the FBI was weaponized in this ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation that tapped the phones of sitting US Senators and also the Republican Attorneys General Association.”
The scandalous details of the investigation have remained lurking in the background for months, with many conservatives and MAGA voters furious that the Trump Administration has seemingly done quite little to punish the FBI for targeting conservatives, and purge it of the weaponized agents who engaged in the investigation.
President Trump is angry as well, as shown by a post on Truth Social in which he linked to a report showing the leftist origins of the Arctic Frost investigation and demanded that Kash Patel start cracking down on the agents who were involved in the operation, saying they are no better than rioters and are only in their positions thanks to leftist presidents.
Beginning the short and to the point post, President Trump snapped that the weaponized agents are “scum” and that they are the same sort of awful as the rioters in blue cities that are causing so much havoc. He said, “These FBI Agents are total Scum, in their own way no better than the insurrectionists in Portland, Minnesota, Los Angeles, etc.”
Continuing, he demanded that the FBI Director take real action and fire the “lunatics” who remain within the FBI despite having been weaponized against conservatives after getting positions thanks to Obama and Biden. He said, “Kash better get them out, NOW! Radical Left Lunatics put in by the “Auto Pen” and Obama!”
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The report that the president linked as part of his post came from Just the News, a conservative media outlet, and claimed that former FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, known for his anti-Trump social media posts, was instrumental in pushing the Arctic Frost investigation and getting the probe authorized in 2022.
Commenters online largely agreed with President Trump and demanded that Director Patel start firing the hacks within the FBI. One such poster on X, for example, said, “President Trump just sent a LOUD messaged to Kash Patel. He wants the Rogue FBI Agents OUT of the FBI immediately. I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH TRUMP. GET THEM OUT”
Watch Operation Arctic Frost get exposed by Sen. Schmitt during a Senate hearing on FBI weaponization here: