The list contains familiar names — and they are all are on President Donald Trump’s list of people who should be prosecuted for investigating him.
Trump pointed out those people in a post on Truth Social late Friday.
“Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from the failed Biden Administration, signed off on Operation Arctic Frost,” Trump wrote. “They spied on Senators and Congressmen/women, and even taped their calls. They cheated and rigged the 2020 Presidential Election. These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!”
“Arctic Frost” is in reference to Smith’s investigation into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and his alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, per Mediaite.
Trump did not state which documents he was writing about.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, earlier in October, released a FBI document which stated l Smith “spied” on eight Republican senators during his “Arctic Frost investigation.”
It was revealed Smith obtained metadata in his investigation.
“The FBI in 2023 sought and obtained data about the senators’ phone use from January 4 through January 7, 2021,” the committee reported. “That data shows when and to whom a call is made, as well as the duration and general location data of the call. The data does not include the content of the call.”
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin said then the information was publicly available, and Smith’s actions were to be expected since Trump was communicating with Republican elected officials about possibly overturning the election, the outlet reported.
“It’s not even news,” Toobin said. “Jack Smith cites these conversations in his report. So this is not like he was trying to keep this a secret. And remember what Smith was investigating. He was investigating Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election through the use of fake electors in Congress.”
Then-Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022 appointed Smith as special counsel after Trump announced he was running for president for the third time.
In 2023, Trump was indicted for the election scheme, as well as keeping government documents after leaving office.
Monaco was deputy attorney general during Smith’s investigation.
Wray was the FBI director then after he was appointed by Trump in 2017.
