The FBI spent years telling America it was the most professional law enforcement agency on earth.
New documents from Senator Chuck Grassley just exposed what was actually happening inside the Washington Field Office.
One agent's scheme to bring down Donald Trump relied on a source that any middle schooler could edit.
Walter Giardina Asked To Join Crossfire Hurricane Seven Times in Four Weeks
FBI Special Agent Walter Giardina wanted on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Donald Trump so badly he asked seven times in four weeks. That detail alone torches the FBI's longstanding claim that agents don't choose their cases.
It came out last week in a document dump Grassley released alongside FBI Director Kash Patel's Senate Judiciary Committee testimony – a four-hour hearing that confirmed the weaponization of the bureau runs far deeper than anyone publicly admitted.
Giardina didn't just want on Crossfire Hurricane. Before Trump even took the oath of office, Giardina was already building a new case.
A January 12, 2017 email from anti-Trump FBI agent Tim Thibault revealed Giardina had assembled "open source reporting" on alleged Trump campaign fundraising violations. By February 27, 2017, Giardina's Washington Field Office squad was moving to formally open a campaign finance violation case against the incoming president.
Then came the Wikipedia citation.
The Wikipedia citation came on April 5, 2017. Giardina was meeting with FBI colleague Vivien Moon when he pointed her to the Chain Bridge Bank Wikipedia page – the one tagging the institution as "the preferred bank of the Republican Party" ever since John McCain parked his campaign funds there. He passed the same tip to Thibault.
A Wikipedia page was the predication an FBI agent used to build the framework for investigating the President of the United States. The campaign finance case, for its part, never advanced.
FBI Agent Wanted To Criminally Investigate Elon Musk Over DOGE Email
Giardina was not operating alone. Former FBI Special Agent Kevin Gounaud tried to open a criminal case against Elon Musk – because Musk asked federal employees to list five things they accomplished in a week.
Gounaud's February 22, 2025 email argued that an Office of Personnel Management employee conspired with Musk to obtain "sensitive government information outside of a strict need to know." He then compared Musk's use of X to promote the request to Hillary Clinton's use of a private server for classified communications.
"Happy to write the case opening and find a prosecutor (or at least try)," Gounaud wrote. Then, anticipating the obvious reaction, he added: "And no, I'm not kidding."
A sitting FBI agent wanted to open a criminal file on the world's richest man because a federal workforce management email went out with Musk's backing.
Records show Gounaud was also connected to the earlier Giardina-Thibault effort. On February 16, 2017, he sent the duo a revised list of investigative steps framed as a framework for uncovering election crimes and public corruption violations. Thibault then forwarded those steps to a superior as if he had drafted them himself.
The Alfa Bank Hoax Report That Disappeared Before John Durham Could Find It
A March 10, 2017 email shows FBI agent Keith Mularski telling Giardina that a PricewaterhouseCoopers investigator had examined what the bureau was calling the Trump server incident with Alfa Bank – the Clinton campaign-funded hoax that claimed Trump maintained a secret communications channel with a Russian bank.
The PwC investigator told the FBI the incident "wasn't nefarious" and that "there was a perfectly logical reason for it."
That report never surfaced in Special Counsel John Durham's investigation. FBI agent Allison Sands testified at Michael Sussmann's trial about the Alfa Bank probe and never mentioned PwC. Durham's final report covered the Alfa Bank allegations at length without a single reference to it.
Someone had that report. Someone received a professional finding that exonerated Trump on one of the central Russia collusion allegations – and it disappeared.
Patel confirmed at last week's hearing that the Round River classification used to bury Biden family corruption evidence was "basically made up." His team is investigating who created it. He now needs to find the PwC report – and determine whether Giardina withheld it from Sands or Durham's investigators.
For nearly a decade, Grassley has been dragging these records into daylight. He told Patel at last week's hearing that the Deep State's sustained effort against Trump is "worse than anything Trump has been accused of."
The agents running this operation did not need real evidence, credible informants, or sophisticated sources.
They had Wikipedia.
Sources:
- Margot Cleveland, "Deep State Agent Cited Wikipedia In Attempt To Launch Another Get-Trump Probe: Docs," The Federalist, September 21, 2026.
- Margot Cleveland, "Sen. Grassley Vindicated Thrice-Fold On Alleged Scheme To Hinder Biden Family Investigation," The Federalist, September 16, 2026.
- Daily Caller staff, "FBI Agent Wanted To Investigate Elon Musk For Asking Federal Employees What They Did That Week," Daily Caller, September 15, 2026.
- Chuck Grassley, "Grassley Questions Director Patel at Senate Judiciary Committee Oversight Hearing," Senate Judiciary Committee, September 15, 2026.
