FBI memo opening Arctic Frost probe into Trump was thin on evidence and justification

Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:37 pm

Posted by Major Dutch Schaefer

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Posted on 10/30/25 at 12:37 pm

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he FBI memo that opened the Biden-era Artic Frost investigation into Donald Trump and hundreds of his allies over their Jan. 6 activities was thin on evidence and legal justifications, according to former prosecutors and FBI agents who found significant deficiencies when they reviewed the newly released document.

The probe code named "Arctic Frost" was led by an openly anti-Trump FBI supervisor, was eventually taken over by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and treated the effort by Trump's allies to submit alternate electors to Congress to sway the certification of the 2020 election as a criminal conspiracy, even though two prior episodes in American history were not prosecuted as crimes.

The FBI memo that opened the probe in spring 2022 — around the time Trump announced he would run for president again — used interview clips from CNN as key evidence "suggesting" the former and future president was involved in the alleged criminal conspiracy.

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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who got the document from current FBI Director Kash Patel, told Just the News on Wednesday night that he believes the memo justifying the start of Arctic Frost was legally deficient and suffered from the same politicization and abuses as the 2016 Russia collusion probe code-named "Crossfire Hurricane" that also targeted Trump before it was widely discredited.

“Sure looks that way. … and it looks like this was just the same old weaponization, same old political focus, focus on politics, going after your political enemies,” Jordan said during a wide-ranging interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show. “Same mindset that said we're going to put the dossier in the intelligence community assessment, even though we know the dossier is garbage, we know there's no underlying intelligence support.

"That same mindset that was there in 2016 is the mindset we see now in 2022 with Arctic Frost, and then as it transformed into Jack Smith, special counsel later in 2022 — same exact mindset. So yeah, that's what it sure looks like," he added.