Overview

• Sen. Chuck Grassley released whistleblower materials at a Judiciary Committee hearing indicating the FBI’s Arctic Frost probe included 92 Republican-linked people and organizations, naming Turning Point USA among them.
• The records include internal subpoena logs showing batch financial demands to major banks in December 2022 for accounts tied to groups such as Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action, the RNC, the Republican Attorneys General Association, the Conservative Partnership Institute, and the America First Policy Institute.
• Grassley attributed the probe’s launch to former FBI official Timothy Thibault and argued it laid groundwork later used by Special Counsel Jack Smith, assertions based on the whistleblower disclosures and his committee’s review.
• President Trump responded by alleging political weaponization of law enforcement and citing Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order and his daughter’s Democratic consulting work, as the U.S. Office of Special Counsel continues a review of Jack Smith that his attorneys reject as unfounded.
• The Washington Examiner reported that Charlie Kirk was assassinated last week at Utah Valley University and that officials described the attack as politically motivated, with suspect Tyler Robinson charged on Tuesday and facing the death penalty.