Trump Orders Cleanup of Corrupt FBI ‘Scum’
President Donald Trump asked Truth Social that FBI Director Kash Patel remove agents from the bureau, referencing a report detailing a former FBI official’s role in advancing the Arctic Frost investigation targeting Trump, Republican organizations and elected officials.
In an accompanying article detailing internal FBI communications, Trump declared: “These FBI agents are complete scum, in their own way no better than the insurgents in Portland, Minnesota, Los Angeles, etc. Kash better get them out, NOW! Radical left nutjobs put in place by ‘Auto Pen’ and Obama!”
The president’s message referenced recently leaked documents revealing that the investigation into Arctic Frost — which originally focused on the Capitol unrest on January 6, 2021 — was not only directed against him personally, but also expanded to target Republican groups. elected civil servantsAnd policy organizations across the country.
The attached report, published by Just the News, describes how former FBI Assistant Special Agent Timothy Thibault, who had previously posted anti-Trump content on social media, played a central role in launching the Arctic Frost investigation. Thibault was identified as responsible for authorizing the investigation in April 2022 and has repeatedly circulated left-wing news articles and opinion pieces to justify the targeting of Trump and his associates.
According to internal office emails and memos obtained by Congress, Thibault circulated articles and podcasts from media outlets such as Just safety, NPRand the Washington Post. In late February 2022, he emailed his FBI colleagues a “lawsuit note” article titled United States against Donald Trumpwritten by former Obama Justice Department official Barbara McQuade and published by Just safetywhich analyzed potential charges against Trump related to January 6 and his efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence. Thibault also shared a podcast episode featuring McQuade, who described Trump’s efforts as “a provable crime,” although that language appeared in the podcast’s framing, not Thibault’s own remarks.
Thibault also pushed links to podcasts and NPR shows that highlighted Trump’s alleged involvement in plots to overturn the election. In several emails, he insisted that Trump was officially the subject of the Arctic Frost affair. While admitting early on that direct evidence was lacking, Thibault encouraged his colleagues to seek out open source documents and human intelligence that could support a case.
Emails and memos obtained by Congress and released in part by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) show that Thibault pushed to include “DJT” in Arctic Frost’s launch materials, even though the initial scope focused on the Trump campaign and unknown topics. Separate communications show that FBI official Christopher Macrae then emailed Thibault attachments containing written approvals from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland to begin the investigation.
Thibault’s involvement in Arctic Frost extended beyond Trump. Breitbart News reported that the investigation included scrutiny of prominent Republican organizations such as the Republican National Committee, the Association of Republican Attorneys General and Turning Point USA — whose founder, Charlie Kirk, was assassinated in 2025. According to Grassley, the expansion of Arctic Frost signaled an effort by the FBI to widen its investigative network of conservative and Republican-aligned entities.
In his testimony last September, director Kash Patel confirmed that its review of Arctic Frost records revealed extensive surveillance and data collection on elected officials, including eight Republican senators and one congressman. The communication records were, according to Patel, hidden in a secure cyber vault, accessible only via higher-level authorization. He said he located those documents and fired the agents responsible, also disbanding CR-15 — the public corruption unit of the FBI’s Washington field office — calling it the central unit behind the “militarization” of the bureau.
One of those senators, Josh Hawley (R-MO), called the data collection operation an “abuse of power beyond Watergate,” emphasizing the constitutional concerns it raised about the separation of powers and free speech. Hawley called for full legal accountability of all parties involved.
Thibault’s name had already been raised in the context of allegations of political bias. In 2022, whistleblowers reported that he attempted to shut down investigations into Hunter Biden and sought to inflate the FBI’s statistics on domestic violent extremism by pressuring agents to reclassify cases. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Sen. Grassley both released letters identifying Thibault as a central figure in these incidents, citing evidence of improper marking of records to prevent their reopening.
