'Bombshell' Emails Show Biden White House Directly Aided Jack Smith's Trump Probe

"Lastly, the emails illustrate the Biden White House’s personal involvement..."

The Biden White House helped the FBI get Donald Trump’s phone while he was a private citizen and before he was under investigation — according to newly released whistleblower emails obtained by Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.

In May 2022, then–Deputy White House Counsel Jonathan Su coordinated directly with FBI officials to transfer both Trump’s and Mike Pence’s official government phones. The request came from the FBI and DOJ as part of an early-stage investigation known as Operation Arctic Frost — a probe that would later become the basis for Special Counsel Jack Smith’s charges against Trump over his 2020 election challenges.

The thrust of the new report on the uncovered emails:

Overall, these newly disclosed emails show the extensive collaboration between and among select FBI agents from the Washington Field Office and prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office – Washington D.C. to plan, approve and execute Arctic Frost. The emails also provide further support that ASAC Thibault played a central role in advancing its approval to a full field criminal investigation when other agents had concerns the supporting evidence only allowed for a preliminary investigation. Lastly, the emails illustrate the Biden White House’s personal involvement in providing former President Trump and former Vice President Pence’s phones to the FBI at their request when neither of them was a subject of the investigation at that point in time.

At the time the phones were handed over, Trump wasn’t a subject of any investigation. He was a former president, a private citizen, and the presumptive GOP frontrunner to challenge Joe Biden in 2024. That transfer of his phone — assisted by Biden’s legal office — now appears to be one of the first steps in the criminal case that followed.

The emails show that on May 2, 2022, DOJ Criminal Chief John Crabb contacted Su and copied FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault, asking him to “coordinate... about picking up the telephones.” Su responded the same day and set up the handoff. By May 4, the FBI had the phones in hand.

Thibault, the FBI official overseeing the communication, would later be fired for Hatch Act violations and has been flagged in multiple whistleblower complaints for showing political bias against Trump. He’s also accused of concealing his role in launching the Arctic Frost probe by assigning subordinates to take point and keep his name out of official documents.

You might recall Thibault’s name from another major case: The Hunter Biden investigation.

According to Senator Chuck Grassley, Thibault and another FBI official were part of a scheme to discredit damaging information about Hunter by labeling it as disinformation, just weeks before the 2020 election.

Grassley also alleges Thibault improperly closed a valid probe into Hunter Biden without cause and then tried to bury it so it couldn’t be reopened later. The timing coincided with The New York Post’s initial reporting on the contents of Hunter’s abandoned laptop.

Thibault, a known critic of Trump on social media, was already under fire for showing political bias. Though his lawyers later claimed he wasn’t involved in the laptop probe, sources told the Washington Times he was effectively forced out and escorted from the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

The situation has added fuel to Republican claims that the FBI interfered in the 2020 election by protecting the Bidens and suppressing damaging information — including by influencing social media companies like Facebook, which admitted to limiting the laptop story’s reach after vague warnings from the FBI about “Russian propaganda.”

Another official involved early was Thomas Windom, who later joined Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team. At the time, Windom was already working on coordinating interviews and subpoenas. Internal emails among FBI agents describe him preparing to contact individuals represented by counsel and begin collecting devices — well before Trump was publicly linked to the case.

Senators Grassley and Johnson argue these new disclosures confirm that the FBI and DOJ fast-tracked Arctic Frost with coordination from politically aligned personnel, while ignoring internal concerns that the evidence didn’t meet the threshold for a full criminal investigation.

Grassley and Johnson repeated their requests for full documents from the Department of Justice and the FBI about the probe.

“In order to conduct our constitutional oversight responsibilities, and to determine who later added former President Trump as a criminal subject to the case, we reiterate our request for your offices to produce all DOJ and FBI records in the Arctic Frost investigation,” they wrote. Congress has set a deadline of April 21, 2025.

They also say it proves the Biden White House was not only informed, but directly helped initiate the investigation — by handing over the phones of Trump and Pence at a time when neither was being investigated. Thoroughly corrupt.