Overview
- Just the News released emails and memos turned over to Congress showing Timothy Thibault organized the electronic authorization to open Arctic Frost in April 2022.
- The records indicate Thibault circulated articles and podcasts critical of Trump and pressed to add “DJT” as a subject of the launch memo.
- Trump responded on Truth Social by calling involved FBI agents “total Scum” and urging Director Kash Patel to remove them immediately.
- Patel replied that the bureau had already identified the “corrupt actors” and terminated their employment last year.
- Thibault left his Washington Field Office post in August 2022, and the Arctic Frost work later moved under special counsel Jack Smith, contributing to charges against Trump related to Jan. 6.