Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley reveals FBI’s Arctic Frost investigation targeted dozens of Republican entities, including Charlie Kirk’s group.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed Tuesday that the FBI’s election-related investigation into President Donald Trump, launched in 2022, swept in dozens of Republican entities, including the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA.
Speaking during a hearing focused on oversight of the FBI, Grassley said the investigation, which the bureau called „Arctic Frost“, was partisan in nature and that its expansive scope was evidence of that.
„In other words, Arctic Frost wasn’t just a case to politically investigate Trump“, Grassley said. „It was a vehicle by which partisan FBI agents and Department of Justice prosecutors could achieve their partisan ends and improperly investigate the entire Republican political apparatus.“
Since January, Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have been publishing records related to Arctic Frost, the investigation launched during FBI Director Chris Wray’s tenure that served as the basis for former special counsel Jack Smith to bring criminal charges against Trump related to the 2020 election.
