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Arctic Frost probe driven early on by anti-Trump FBI agent, claims by liberal outlets, memos show
Just the News ^ | January 11, 2026 | John Solomon & Jerry Dunleavy

Posted on 01/12/2026 7:28:06 AM PST by Twotone

An FBI supervisor who openly opposed Donald Trump on social media played a crucial role in igniting the controversial Arctic Frost probe, pressing to add the former president as a formal subject of the investigation and circulating articles from liberal activists and leftwing news sources to make his case, according to evidence recently turned over to Congress and obtained by Just the News.

Special Agent Timothy Thibault, who left his role as the assistant agent in charge of its Washington field office in August 2022 after his anti-Trump social posts became public, organized the initial electronic communication that authorized the start of the Arctic Frost probe.

He also circulated by email clippings from such anti-Trump outlets as Just Security, NPR, and The Washington Post, pushing for a criminal probe of Trump related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot, the memos show.

When Thibault's colleagues originally drafted the investigation's launch document to focus on the Trump campaign and affiliated and still unknown subjects, "Add DJT" was scribbled onto the draft memo. Emails indicate Thibault was pushing to add Trump to the investigative launch document.

Revelations include emails from 2022 where Thibault shared articles and podcasts critical of Trump, including a prosecution-style memo authored by a former Obama DOJ official.

Thibault also sought to promote media coverage from outlets with left-leaning perspectives, such as NPR, as well as podcasts produced by The Daily Beast. The focus of these articles was Trump’s alleged crimes and efforts to overturn the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arcticfrost; bidencrimefamily; corrupticrats; couptruth; demagogicparty; fbi; hunterbiden; jacksmith; jerrydunleavy; johnsolomon; kashpatel; liberaltruth; timothythibault

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1 posted on 01/12/2026 7:28:06 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

It looks like the FBI pushed the J6 story to the MSM and then used the MSM story as “evidence” to destroy Trump.


2 posted on 01/12/2026 7:31:13 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Twotone

So, is he collecting a nice fat pension?


3 posted on 01/12/2026 7:34:41 AM PST by ComputerGuy (FAFO is known as the Trump Doctrine)
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To: Twotone

Bkmk


4 posted on 01/12/2026 7:36:07 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Zathras

This has been typical behavior for years before this. FBI Leaks-> News Media Story -> FBI runs to court claiming the new stories are justification for subpoenas.


5 posted on 01/12/2026 7:37:04 AM PST by The Free Engineer
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To: Twotone

He will remain free and enjoy his FBI pension and benefits.


6 posted on 01/12/2026 7:37:17 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Twotone
"...But Thibault added: “What we are doing: Aggressively seeking out open-source information, HUMINT [human intelligence] info that could predicate a case.” He said that “we have, over the past month, been actively collaborating” with the FBI’s Washington Field Office in the effort and said that he would “continue open conversations with” FBI headquarters “on what, if anything we find.” Thibault said that “if nothing else, we want to be a resource for them if they have questions about the inner working of federal political campaigns (in-kind contributions, law prohibiting foreign contributions, straw donor campaigns, and Super Pacs/dark money)..."

Basically saying: "We can't find anything, but are scraping the barrel to find something, anything to throw at Trump."

In essence, having the man and finding the crime.

It is nearly laughable, the very last part about "the inner working of federal political campaigns (in-kind contributions, law prohibiting foreign contributions, straw donor campaigns, and Super Pacs/dark money)

The Democrat Party is the uncontested King in those areas, but they absolutely were not going to shine a light in there.

7 posted on 01/12/2026 7:39:05 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: ComputerGuy

So, is he collecting a nice fat pension?

He should be collecting worms after being hung, IMHO.


8 posted on 01/12/2026 8:54:14 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Pete Dovgan

YES


9 posted on 01/12/2026 9:15:13 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Zathras

“It looks like the FBI pushed the J6 story to the MSM and then used the MSM story as “evidence” to destroy Trump.”

The classic wrap up smear as described by Nancy Pelosi although she is projecting (as usual) and accusing the Republicans of using it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LlHU53G2Z0


10 posted on 01/12/2026 12:11:04 PM PST by suthener ( I do not like living under our homosexual, ghetto, feminist government.)
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