The FBI's history of targeting Donald Trump runs deeper than most Americans realized.
FBI Director Kash Patel just exposed another bombshell buried in the evidence.
And Kash Patel uncovered a new FBI plot against Trump that will make your blood boil.
FBI tried to manufacture October surprise over legal casino gambling
FBI Director Kash Patel sent Congress 235 pages of Arctic Frost investigation documents that revealed another election-eve attack on Donald Trump.
Two weeks before Election Day 2020, the FBI's Washington Field Office produced a "tactical intelligence report" trying to link Trump campaign payments to a vendor with casino gambling.¹
The FBI believed a Trump campaign employee went gambling at casinos after the vendor American Made Media Consultants received money for campaign work.
The intelligence bulletin landed on October 21, 2020 — just 13 days before Trump lost to Joe Biden — and recommended opening "a predicated investigation into Federal election crimes" even though agents admitted their assessments were made with "low confidence."²
Here's what makes this particularly outrageous: the FBI was treating legal casino visits as potential criminal activity worthy of federal investigation.
"FBI Washington Field Office assesses the use of AMMC as a clearinghouse for Trump campaign spending is likely vulnerable to campaign finance crimes by campaign-connected sub-vendors," the intelligence bulletin stated.³
The Washington Field Office's "evidence" consisted of timing correlations between when AMMC received campaign payments and when an unnamed campaign official visited casinos.
"This assessment is based on the timing of the formation of AMMC and the sudden increase in gambling at casinos by [redacted] that followed," the intelligence report claimed.⁴
The campaign official — whose name was redacted but whose role as digital director pointed to Gary Coby — visited MGM National Harbor and other casinos while working for the campaign.
FBI analysts recommended seeking voluntary information from casinos, believing it could "support the opening of a predicated investigation into Federal election crimes."⁵
This wasn't some rogue agent operating alone — the Washington Field Office issued an official intelligence bulletin two weeks before a Presidential election based on speculation about legal casino visits.
Pattern of election-eve FBI attacks on Trump campaigns
This 2020 October surprise follows an established pattern of FBI interference in Trump campaigns.
In 2016, FBI Director James Comey reopened the Hillary Clinton email investigation 11 days before Election Day, then pivoted to targeting Trump's campaign through the Crossfire Hurricane probe.⁶
The FBI applied for a FISA warrant on October 21, 2016 — exactly four years before the AMMC gambling bulletin — to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page based partly on the discredited Steele dossier.⁷
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page discussed using FBI briefings with the Trump transition team to develop relationships and gather intelligence, including sending a "CI guy" to assess "demeanor" during the briefings.⁸
Special Counsel John Durham's 2023 report concluded the FBI acted on "unanalyzed, unconfirmed intelligence" to open a full investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign rather than a preliminary one.⁹
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan connected the dots between these operations.
"[It] looks like this was just the same old weaponization, same old political focus, focus on politics, going after your political enemies," Jordan said on "Just the News, No Noise."¹⁰
"Same mindset that said we're going to put the dossier in the intelligence community assessment, even though we know the dossier is garbage, we know there's no underlying intelligence support," Jordan continued.¹¹
"That same mindset that was there in 2016 is the mindset we see now in 2022 with Arctic Frost, and then as it transformed into Jack Smith, special counsel later in 2022 — same exact mindset," Jordan added.¹²
AMMC became target of Democrat-aligned watchdog complaints
The FBI probe appears to have been launched following a complaint from the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit founded by Trevor Potter, who served as general counsel for Senator John McCain's presidential campaigns.¹³
Potter called Trump's 2024 election "An Unprecedented and Dangerous Time for Our Democracy," warning that Trump demonstrated "an unmistakable tendency toward authoritarian governance and a desire for unchecked power."¹⁴
The Campaign Legal Center accused the Trump campaign of obscuring $170 million in spending through AMMC, which Trump campaign officials created as an in-house media buying operation.¹⁵
"The firms serve as conduits that receive millions in payments from the campaign and disburse the funds to the campaign's ultimate vendors, thereby concealing the campaign's transactions with those vendors," the complaint alleged.¹⁶
Jared Kushner approved creating AMMC to handle media buying without paying commissions to outside vendors, according to multiple reports.¹⁷
Lara Trump served as AMMC's president, Vice President Mike Pence's nephew was vice president, and Trump campaign CFO Sean Dollman was treasurer and secretary.¹⁸
AMMC received more than $273 million in disbursements from the Trump campaign despite having no website, according to the FBI intelligence report.¹⁹
Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh defended the arrangement as building "efficiencies" that saved money by providing in-house services.²⁰
The FEC ultimately deadlocked 3-3 on whether to investigate the Campaign Legal Center's allegations, then voted 4-2 to close the file.²¹
But the FBI's October 2020 intelligence bulletin shows the Washington Field Office was actively pursuing the matter as a potential federal crime just two weeks before Election Day.
FBI weaponization against Trump continues with Arctic Frost revelations
The AMMC gambling investigation was part of a broader pattern revealed by Patel's release of Arctic Frost documents.
The Arctic Frost probe, which Special Counsel Jack Smith later took over, was approved by Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and FBI Director Christopher Wray.²²
The FBI opened Arctic Frost in April 2022 based on thin evidence — primarily Steve Bannon's CNN interviews and testimony from the Democrat-led January 6 Committee.²³
Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova called the Arctic Frost launch memo "a brazen abuse of power that requires a criminal investigation immediately."²⁴
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released documents showing FBI obtained phone toll records of eight Republican senators and one representative as part of Arctic Frost.²⁵
Jack Smith issued 197 subpoenas to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, requesting records related to at least 430 Republican individuals and entities.²⁶
The FBI fired three special agents who worked on Smith's team after Patel disclosed the scope of the Republican targeting.²⁷
House Judiciary Committee documents revealed Arctic Frost investigators utilized FBI field offices across the country to target over 150 Republicans, including current Trump administration officials.²⁸
The October 2020 gambling investigation bulletin shows the pattern started even before Biden took office — the FBI was preparing October surprises against Trump regardless of who controlled the White House.
For years, Trump warned that corrupt elements within the FBI were targeting him for political reasons.
These Arctic Frost documents prove Trump was right all along.
¹ John Solomon and Steven Richards, "Kash Patel unearths another 'October Surprise' FBI plot targeting Trump before an election," Just the News, October 30, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Michael S. Schmidt, "Comey's October surprise shook America four years ago today. His wife tried to stop it," NBC News, October 28, 2020.
⁷ Wikipedia, "Crossfire Hurricane (FBI investigation)," accessed October 31, 2025.
⁸ Sen. Chuck Grassley, "Declassified Records Shed Light on FBI Efforts to Co-opt Intel Briefings to Spy on 2016 Trump Campaign," U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, accessed October 31, 2025.
⁹ PolitiFact, "Durham report criticized elements of FBI's investigation into Donald Trump's 2016 campaign," accessed October 31, 2025.
¹⁰ John Solomon and Steven Richards, "Kash Patel unearths another 'October Surprise' FBI plot targeting Trump before an election," Just the News, October 30, 2025.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ ABC News, "Trump campaign accused of using 'pass-through' vendors to obscure $170 million in payments," July 28, 2020.
¹⁶ The Washington Post, "Legal complaint alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments," July 29, 2020.
¹⁷ The Daily Beast, "Jared Kushner OK'd Trump Campaign Shell Company That Secretly Paid Inner Circle, Says Report," December 18, 2020.
¹⁸ Ibid.
¹⁹ John Solomon and Steven Richards, "Kash Patel unearths another 'October Surprise' FBI plot targeting Trump before an election," Just the News, October 30, 2025.
²⁰ The Washington Post, "Legal complaint alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments," July 29, 2020.
²¹ Federal Election Commission, "Campaign Legal Center v. FEC," accessed October 31, 2025.
²² The Washington Times, "Trump rails against former Biden officials for Arctic Frost," October 25, 2025.
²³ Newsmax, "Trump Rips 'Criminal' Jack Smith Amid New Details of 'Arctic Frost' Probe," October 30, 2025.
²⁴ Ibid.
²⁵ Wikipedia, "Arctic Frost investigation," accessed October 31, 2025.
²⁶ U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, "NEW: Jack Smith Subpoenaed Records for Over 400 Republican Targets As Part of Arctic Frost," accessed October 31, 2025.
²⁷ NBC News, "FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump," October 8, 2025.
²⁸ The Daily Caller, "House Judiciary Says FBI's 'Arctic Frost' Probe Potentially Targeted Over 150 Republicans," October 28, 2025.
