A batch of newly uncovered internal FBI emails has just blown the lid off one of the most blatant abuses of government power in modern U.S. history.
These damning records—obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee—reveal that top officials inside the FBI were openly brainstorming how to fabricate a criminal case against President Donald J. Trump, despite having no evidence he committed a crime.
One of the key players exposed is former FBI agent Tim Thibault, a name you might remember for all the wrong reasons. In a March 2, 2022 email to Assistant U.S. Attorney John Crabb, Thibault lays it out plainly: the FBI wanted to target Trump’s team based on their use of the Willard Hotel during the 2020 election aftermath—specifically as a “command center” for election monitoring and legal strategy.
But Thibault’s problem? There wasn’t a crime. Just political activity—totally legal. And that meant the FBI had to find a backdoor.
In the email, Thibault laments that opening an “Assessment” would be too limited. That option wouldn’t allow interviews, subpoenas, or deeper surveillance without hard justification.
Here’s what he actually said:
“An Assessment would be predicated now, but under DIOG, we are restricted, in the investigative activity we could perform…”
Translation: they wanted to investigate Trump, but pesky federal rules were getting in the way. So what did they do?
Thibault pushed to launch a Preliminary Investigation instead—a move that would unlock far more aggressive surveillance powers, even though no crime had occurred. He admitted in writing the goal was to justify a probe—not based on evidence, but in the hope of finding something later. This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political persecution.
And the rot goes higher.
Wayne Jacobs, another senior FBI official looped into these conversations, was later promoted by FBI Director Christopher Wray to run the Philadelphia field office. That’s right—the same field office that has handled multiple politically charged cases since then. What exactly did Jacobs do to earn that promotion? We’re all supposed to pretend not to notice the timing.
Meanwhile, in April 2022—just one month after Thibault sent his email—the FBI launched Operation Arctic Frost, a broad and secretive initiative to investigate Trump allies who challenged the 2020 election outcome. While the operation was reportedly framed as targeting “extremists,” in practice, it swept up anyone involved in post-election legal efforts, including lawyers, activists, and campaign operatives. This is straight-up criminalization of political dissent.
Then, just six months later, Special Counsel Jack Smith unsealed his indictment of Trump related to the 2020 election—right on cue.
So let’s recap: FBI agents were scheming in emails how to bypass limitations to “get” Trump, then quietly launched a sweeping operation targeting him and his allies, and later celebrated promotions as the DOJ followed through with an indictment. And all of this with no criminal predicate, no evidence, just political marching orders and a willingness to bend federal power to partisan ends.
Thibault was eventually let go—but not before he violated the Hatch Act with political rants on social media. Jacobs, though? He’s still sitting in power at the FBI, untouched.
Let’s not kid ourselves. The FBI isn’t just broken—it’s dangerous. This isn’t about Trump anymore. If they can do this to the sitting President of the United States, they can—and will—do it to anyone. Every American should be terrified that a federal agency can now be weaponized to hunt political opponents based on nothing but party allegiance.
And let’s be blunt: this didn’t happen in a vacuum. It was the Democrat Party—the same one that peddled fake dossiers, spied on Trump’s campaign, and spent years screaming “insurrection!”—that turned federal law enforcement into a partisan weapon. This is the legacy of the party that said they were here to “save democracy.”
This isn’t democracy. It’s repression.
The documents prove it: the FBI has crossed the line from law enforcement into political enforcement. And unless Congress acts, unless the American people demand accountability, it will happen again. Next time, maybe it’s not Trump. Maybe it’s a protester. A pastor. A journalist. A parent at a school board meeting.
This isn’t just a Trump story anymore. It’s an American one.
Clean house. Expose everything. Defund every piece of this machine until the FBI remembers who it works for.