The FBI has a history of weaponizing informants against Trump.
Money started flowing freely to the Left’s shock troops.
And Biden's FBI was busted paying anti-Trump activists with this jaw-dropping scheme.
Biden's FBI Paid Foreign Activists to Lead Witch Hunt
FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell on Congress this week.
Biden's FBI paid more than $150,000 to left-wing activists calling themselves "Sedition Hunters" who led a crusade against Trump supporters after January 6.
These were political vigilantes on a mission to destroy anyone who supported Trump, and the FBI paid them to do it.
The witch hunters included foreigners living overseas and American activists running facial recognition software from their homes.
The "Sedition Hunters" social media accounts mock Trump constantly.
Last week they mocked Homeland Security's warning to protect ICE officers: "If you don't see the problem, then you are part of the problem."
In February, they praised Illinois Democrat Governor JB Pritzker for calling Trump "incompetent."
"Love this guy!" the account wrote.
Days into Trump's second term, they tweeted: "After renaming the Gulf of Mexico, the next on the list is the Dept of Justice New Name: Dept of Trump's Agenda."
The FBI knew exactly who these people were and paid them anyway.
Foreign and Domestic Vigilantes Running Facial Recognition
A January 2021 email from the FBI's Washington field office stated "we have a sedition hunter from the United Kingdom running facial recognition software."
A foreign national sitting in Britain was running facial recognition to identify Americans for arrest, and the FBI was using his identifications as evidence to put people in prison.
Tommy Carstensen spent "several months working full time" hunting Trump supporters from his home in Denmark.
He created jan6attack.com and jan6archive.com that became central tools for the witch hunt.
Carstensen told NBC News he viewed January 6 "like a terrorist attack like 9/11."
That's who the FBI paid as an informant.
A woman known only as "Mary" worked with "Capitol Terrorists Exposers" from The Hague in The Netherlands.
Chris Sigurdson, an out-of-work actor in Canada, spent 40 hours a week poring over January 6 footage looking for Trump supporters.
Forrest Rogers operates from Switzerland and was "trained in investigative reporting" by the Southern Poverty Law Center according to his LinkedIn.
These foreign nationals created facial recognition databases to hunt Americans based on grainy videos and photos.
The FBI has no idea how many innocent people were falsely identified by activists squinting at fuzzy images.
Jack Smith Personally Approved Payments to Witch Hunters
Special Counsel Jack Smith's office personally approved a $20,000 payment to a Sedition Hunter informant in summer 2023 as part of the Arctic Frost probe.
That source was tasked with finding video evidence linking Trump supporters at his January 6 Ellipse speech to the Capitol riot.
The FBI wanted to tie Trump to a criminal conspiracy for violence even though Trump never went to the Capitol.
Raymond Hulser, a top Smith deputy, approved the payment on June 2, 2023.
An FBI agent wrote: "Request your office's concurrence in our proposed payment of $20,000 for CHS' provision of information in support of the investigation."
Hulser replied: "Concur, thank you."
The Christopher Steele Playbook Strikes Again
This is the Christopher Steele dossier all over again.
Steele was a British ex-spy with clear anti-Trump bias paid by Hillary Clinton's campaign law firm.
The FBI used him despite his foreign connections and political motivations to produce the fake dossier that launched the Russia collusion hoax.
Steele was fired in November 2016 for violating his confidentiality agreement by leaking to the media.
Five years later, Biden's FBI ran the exact same playbook.
The Sedition Hunters openly bragged on their website about assisting the FBI even though confidential sources must maintain secrecy.
"Sedition Hunters is a global community of open-source intelligence investigators (OSINT) who worked together to assist the US FBI in Washington DC capitol police in finding people who allegedly committed crimes in the January 6th capital riots," the group boasted.
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz found at least 17 "significant errors and omissions" in the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation in 2019.
FBI Director Christopher Wray promised reforms to prevent the bureau from using biased foreign sources again.
Wray told the Senate in March 2021: "We accepted all of the findings and recommendations in the Inspector General's report. I ordered, at the time, over 40 corrective actions to go above and beyond the recommendations."
The Arctic Frost payments happened in 2021 through 2023 — after Wray's supposed reforms.
Wray lied.
The FBI just found new foreign activists to pay for their next witch hunt against Trump.
Innocent Americans Sent to Prison on Tainted Evidence
Patel told Just the News the payments were "a stunning abuse of bureau authorities and a clear violation of longstanding informant rules."
"The American people deserve the truth about how the FBI was weaponized against them," Patel said.
"Under my leadership, the FBI will fully disclose these actions to Congress and ensure the bureau never again serves partisan or political ends instead of the Constitution."
The FBI fired all supervisors involved.
Court records show the bureau cited Sedition Hunter information in at least 63 legal documents used to prosecute January 6 defendants.
These vengeful activists helped build cases that sent Americans to prison.
Americans are sitting in jail because some left-wing activist in Denmark ran their photo through facial recognition software and declared it a match.
Families were destroyed because the FBI trusted foreigners conducting a political vendetta.
The FBI paid foreign nationals with a clear political agenda to hunt down Trump supporters, called them informants to legitimize the witch hunt, and used that tainted evidence to prosecute Americans.
This was political persecution outsourced to overseas left-wing vigilantes, and Biden's FBI paid them $150,000 in taxpayer money to destroy innocent Americans.
Sources:
- John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy, "Biden's FBI paid anti-Trump 'Sedition Hunters' as informants in J6, Arctic Frost probes, memos show," Just the News, January 20, 2026.
- Jerry Dunleavy, "FBI's use of Sedition Hunters as paid J6 informants raises questions about Wray's 'reform' promises," Just the News, January 21, 2026.
- "FBI Often Uses Tips From Sedition Hunters, Others To Find Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters," NPR, August 18, 2021.
- Ryan Reilly, "FBI missed 'basic step' gathering intel in the lead-up to Jan. 6, DOJ watchdog finds," NBC News, December 12, 2024.
- "Arctic Frost investigation," Wikipedia, January 2026.
- Chuck Grassley, "NEW: Jack Smith Subpoenaed Records for Over 400 Republican Targets As Part of Arctic Frost," U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, October 29, 2025.
