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Posted on 05/14/2026 7:03:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee is urging the Justice Department to ask federal courts to dismiss with prejudice all prior criminal prosecutions against President Donald Trump, putting a permanent end to a 10-year legal assault by the Obama-Biden era FBI against the man twice elected president by the American people.
"It's probably time that this all just ended," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Wednesday night after Just the News reported new documents it obtained revealed the FBI at the end of the Biden presidency secretly took the rare step of preserving evidence from a dismissed January 6 prosecution until 2030, raising alarm the bureau could revive its prosecution after Trump leaves office.
The agents in the controversial Arctic Frost case also wrote a new memo insisting they believed Trump violated laws, creating a fresh roadmap for prosecution after Trump's presidential immunity from prosecution ends in 2029.
Jordan, who played a crucial role in debunking Russia collusion allegations against Trump and chronicling FBI abuses in the targeting of conservative figures since 2016, reacted to the report by saying Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche should declare "this thing is done, over with. A-B see you later."
He said DOJ asking the courts to discard all prior prosecutions with prejudice — meaning they couldn't be re-filed — was "the right approach."
"When you think about what's it now been over 10 years? I mean, remember this all started when we learned here from your good reporting and other good work, that we've learned that the whole thing was a hoax from the beginning when they used the (Steele) dossier that was manufactured and paid for by the Clinton campaign and all that. So, yeah, it's probably time that this is all just ended," he said,
FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News the decision — before he took over the bureau — to keep evidence from the dismissed Arctic Frost prosecution was wrong, abusive and not normal FBI procedure. He noted the special FBI unit that worked on the case has been disbanded,
“The American people deserve to know how this egregious weaponization of power to target political opponents and President Trump happened inside an institution meant to protect them,” Patel said. “We shut down the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we are going to keep following the facts until there is full accountability. The FBI exists to protect the country, not to preserve political prosecutions for a future administration.”
The FBI memos and emails closing out the controversial Arctic Frost investigation – obtained by Just the News – show the bureau chose not to relinquish the evidence it gathered after Smith went to court to dismiss charges against Trump, even though that is the normal practice for agents. Instead, they created a preservation order keeping the evidence in FBI custody for two years after Trump's second term ends, claiming it was necessary to do so because of ongoing litigation, the memos show.
FBI emails and memos obtained by Just the News dating back to early 2025 show how the FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who had been working on the criminal prosecutions aimed at Trump and his allies worked to close the 2020 election-related case against the incoming president, while also seemingly leaving open the door for the criminal case to be revived once Trump leaves office and a Democrat again holds the reins at the Justice Department.
“The American people deserve to know how this egregious weaponization of power to target political opponents and President Trump happened inside an institution meant to protect them,” FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News. “We shut down the weaponized CR-15 squad, and we are going to keep following the facts until there is full accountability. The FBI exists to protect the country, not to preserve political prosecutions for a future administration.”
Following Trump’s victory in November 2024 over Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, Special Counsel Jack Smith sought to dismiss his January 6 related case against Trump “without prejudice” – leaving open the possibility that the charges could be refiled in the future.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama, pointed to the Office of Legal Counsel’s position that a sitting president could not be prosecuted by his own DOJ and granted Smith’s request to dismiss the case without prejudice.
One of the key “Case Closing” documents obtained by Just the News – originating from the FBI's Washington Field Office’s CR-15 team – was dated a couple of weeks into Trump’s second term, on February 5, 2025, when many holdover FBI agents and leaders were still in place.
The newly-released closing document from early 2025 repeated the extensive claims of criminality against Trump, which had been pursued by Smith and the bureau, and it sought to retain all of the evidence for a half decade until at least February 2030, when Trump would be a former president once more and thus when the DOJ guidance prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president would no longer be in force.
The document was titled “Arctic Frost – Election Law Matters – Sensitive Investigative Matter” and its synopsis was “To Document the Closing of Captioned Investigation.” The listed enclosures buttressing the document were a “Deputy Special Counsel Concurrence” and the “Retention of Evidence Approval.”
The FBI record states, “This Electronic Communication seeks approval to close the captioned full Sensitive Investigative Matter investigation” and argued that “because this was a SIM opened by a Field Office and involved a presidential candidate, the same level of approval required to open the investigation is also required to close the investigation.”
Evidence released last year showed that then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, then-Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and then-FBI Director Christopher Wray signed off on the launch of the Arctic Frost inquiry into Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Garland also quickly said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant” for the FBI’s unprecedented raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022. The Biden White House was also directly linked to the classified documents investigation into Trump, despite its denials, previously-released records show.
“The approval roles on this closing EC match those of the opening EC and, as such, Washington Field Office is seeking approval up to and including the Director of the FBI to close this investigation,” the newly released FBI document said.
The document included a “Summary of the Results of the Investigation” into Trump, which had been pursued by Smith and the FBI, arguing that “the captioned FBI investigation was opened based on specific and articulable facts and circumstances that individuals affiliated with Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. (the ‘Trump Campaign’) engaged in activity that violated federal law.”
The FBI memo alleged that “the investigation revealed that when Donald J. Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. With various co-conspirators, Trump launched a series of plans to overturn the legitimate election results in seven states that he had lost – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.”
The bureau record also alleged that “Trump and his co-conspirators used knowingly false claims of election fraud in furtherance of three conspiracies: 1) a conspiracy to interfere with the federal government function by which the nation collects and counts election results, which is set forth in the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act; 2) a conspiracy to obstruct the official proceeding in which Congress certifies the legitimate results of the presidential election; and 3) a conspiracy against the rights of millions of Americans to vote and have their votes counted.”
The section on the “Disposition of Evidence” related to Smith’s anti-Trump investigation argued that “this investigation is subject to a litigation hold and is on the freeze list; as a result, no evidence can be returned or destroyed and must be retained.”
The FBI memo said that FBI assistant special agent in charge approval “to retain all evidence notwithstanding closure” of the case was obtained “as required” by the FBI’s Field Evidence Management Policy Guide.
“The Retention EC specifies that the evidence will be retained until at least February 1, 2030, but in no case prior to the lift of the freeze and litigation hold and that the Special Counsel's Office concurred with the retention of evidence,” the FBI memo said.
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And no charges against Joe Biden for his numerous excursions from lawfulness.
WHO IS IN PRISON???
That'll teach 'em.
Greg Kelly often does a very good show and the other night he compared Trump taking Elon Musk and all the other important CEOs with him to China,
Versus Biden gets off the plane with his garbage drug addict son Hunter and proceeds to have Hunter at meetings with the leader of China.
I recall that Hunter also insisted he be allowed to move around China without the Secret Service following him.
The Democrats are absolutely filthy corrupt bums.
Fire up the electric bleachers.
AND HANG THE ONES WHO DID THAT FOR TREASON!!
Greg Kelly often does a very good show and the other night he compared Trump taking Elon Musk and all the other important CEOs with him to China,
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caught that segment the other night. dramatic difference for sho
my tv choice is ALWAYS kelly > hannity
DC judges won’t dismiss these cases with prejudice. They want a second go at him once Trump is out of office.
Seems only fair.
They’ve already destroyed a lot of evidence in his defense.
Who can now prove there was nothing illegal in the 2020 election?
Okay, poorly worded. Yes I know you can’t prove a negative :) But you know what I meant.
Aaaaaand, this is how the criminals get away with it.
The ole HilaryHag defense against her testifying about the deaths she caused in Libya: “At this point, what difference does it make?”
I want heads on pikes. Anything less than that means we have another “king” in charge (like in the 17hundreds) and this time we need to go all French revolution on them.
What about the criminals who propagated this incredible illegal BS against President Trump and others? Throw them in prison for the rest of their worthless lives. Yank their pensions. Bankrupt them and their worthless families.
Very MidEvil...
I like It.
Medieval. As in a pair of pilers and a blowtorch.
Public Impalement of all involved, including the DC judges and persecutors. That might leave a lasting impression for future bureaucrats who think communism is just peachy, and who abuse their authority to go after constitution supporting American citizens..
Tarantino could have shown a Flash from a Torch with some Hugh Tongs clanging above with the Gimp getting a little Agitated !
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I’ll wait for the Sequel...
Agree
The Biden White House was also directly linked to the classified documents investigation.
Papers setting next to his corvette in a unsecured area.
Grounds keeper Wang much thankful.
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