The legacy media has had it out for Trump since the 2016 Election.
It became a matter of getting him at any cost.
And a secret memo exposed the media's role in this Deep State witch hunt against Trump.
FBI Agent Timothy Thibault Used Liberal Media To Launch Jack Smith Trump Case
Timothy Thibault spent years hunting Trump while posting anti-Trump rants on social media.
Congressional memos obtained by Just the News show the FBI supervisor circulated articles from NPR, The Washington Post, and left-wing legal activists to justify opening Arctic Frost in 2022.
He even forwarded a "prosecution memo-style" piece from a former Obama Justice Department attorney titled "United States v. Donald Trump."
Here's where it gets really ugly.
Barbara McQuade wrote the article.
She spent years at Obama's Justice Department before building a second career writing books trashing Trump.
Thibault sent her prosecution memo to FBI agents in late February 2022 with instructions to "please review this."
McQuade's article laid out potential charges against Trump for January 6.
Within weeks, Thibault was drafting documents to open Arctic Frost using the exact framework McQuade provided.
The circular scam was perfect.
Liberal activists write attack pieces on Trump.
FBI agents who hate Trump circulate those pieces internally.
Then they use the pieces as justification to investigate Trump.
Then the same media outlets report on the FBI investigation as if it's legitimate.
FBI Emails Expose Coordination Between Anti-Trump Agent And Liberal Outlets
In early March 2022, Thibault sent multiple FBI officials an email saying there "may be a good reporting on the electors tonight on NPR."
He knew what was coming before it aired.
That same month, Thibault circulated a Daily Beast podcast titled "How Trump's big lie is a provable crime" featuring McQuade.
He also pushed a Washington Post podcast about Roger Stone's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
When Thibault's colleagues drafted the investigation launch document focusing on Trump's campaign, someone scribbled "Add DJT" onto the memo.
Emails confirm Thibault pushed to make Trump himself a formal subject of the probe.
The FBI agent who called Trump "a psychologically broken, embittered, and deeply unhappy man" on social media was running the investigation into him.
Arctic Frost Investigation Mirrors Crossfire Hurricane FBI Weaponization
The same con that launched the Russia hoax in 2016 launched Arctic Frost in 2022.
Crossfire Hurricane used the Steele dossier funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign as justification to spy on Trump.
Special Counsel John Durham later concluded the FBI lacked legitimate evidence to start that investigation.
The Durham report revealed agents "discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia."
Durham found the FBI relied heavily on "investigative leads provided or funded by Trump's political opponents."
Six years later, Thibault ran the same play with NPR reports and Obama attorney op-eds instead of the Steele dossier.
Thibault admitted to colleagues he had no smoking gun.
He told them he was "aggressively seeking out open-source information" that could "predicate a case" against Trump.
Translation: He decided Trump was guilty, then went hunting for any liberal media article to justify opening an investigation.
Kash Patel Fired FBI Agents And Disbanded CR-15 Over Arctic Frost Corruption
FBI Director Kash Patel terminated the agents behind Arctic Frost after discovering they'd tracked communications of eight Republican Senators without legitimate cause.
Patel dismantled CR-15, the public corruption unit that ran Arctic Frost.
Trump called the Arctic Frost agents "total Scum" and "Radical Left Lunatics" after Just the News revealed the documents.
Patel didn't wait long to hit back.
"Under your leadership, this FBI found the corrupt actors and terminated their employment last year," Patel told Trump.
Senator Chuck Grassley revealed Thibault violated FBI rules by essentially self-approving his own investigation.
Whistleblowers also told Grassley that Thibault tried blocking the Hunter Biden investigation in October 2020.
Thibault retired from the FBI in August 2022 after his anti-Trump social media posts became public.
Arctic Frost eventually transferred to Special Counsel Jack Smith who brought two federal indictments against Trump.
Both cases collapsed after Trump won the 2024 election.
The media's role in this witch hunt is now undeniable.
They weren't passive observers reporting on an FBI investigation.
They were active participants providing the predication documents that launched it.
Liberal activists wrote the prosecution memos.
Biased FBI agents circulated them as evidence.
The same media then reported on the investigation they helped create as if it proved Trump's guilt.
That's not journalism and it's not law enforcement.
It's a criminal conspiracy between the Deep State and its propaganda arm to destroy a President.
Sources:
- John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, "Arctic Frost probe driven early on by anti-Trump FBI agent, claims by liberal outlets, memos show," Just the News, January 11, 2026.
- Jerry Dunleavy, "Patel fired 'corrupt' FBI agents in anti-Trump Arctic Frost inquiry who 'weaponized' law enforcement," Just the News, January 12, 2026.
- Chuck Grassley, "Grassley Underscores FBI Supervisor Misconduct in Trump-Targeted Arctic Frost Investigation," Senate Judiciary Committee, February 3, 2025.
- John Durham, "Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns," Department of Justice, May 2023.
- Michael E. Horowitz, "Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane Investigation," Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, December 2019.
- Ryan J. Reilly, "FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump," NBC News, October 8, 2025.
